Implementing an intervention for parents with mental illness: Building workforce capacity.

Biebel, Kathleen; Nicholson, Joanne; Woolsey, Katherine

doi:10.1037/prj0000046

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“…This is unsurprising, given that deficits in skill and knowledge have been identified as one of the major barriers to the delivery of family-focussed practice (Biebel et al 2014;Cook & Mueser 2014;Maybery & Reupert 2009). The current study aimed to determine individual characteristics of adult mental health practitioners associated with the delivery of family-focussed practices in their everyday work.…”

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Thinking families: A study of the characteristics of the workforce that delivers family‐focussed practice

Goodyear

Maybery

Reupert

et al. 2016

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Parenting with mental illness is not uncommon and is often associated with a range of challenges for parents, children, and the family unit. Family-focussed practice involves the provision of services to the wider family system, including children. While family-focussed practice is important to consumers and their families, adult mental health practitioners do not routinely discuss parenting or children with their clients, nor work closely with the whole family. In the present study, we aimed to examine the characteristics of practitioners from Australian adult mental health services associated with family-focussed practices. Characteristics included sex, years of experience, location, and previous training in child and family-focussed practice. A total of 307 adult mental health practitioners from Victoria, Australia, responded to the Family Focused Mental Health Practice Questionnaire and a series of demographic items. The results indicated that particular practitioner characteristics predicted the delivery of family-focussed practice. Practitioner experience, sex, working in a rural location, and previous family- or child-related training were found to be important in the provision of family-focussed practice. More experienced, female, rurally-located, and well-trained practitioners undertake most family-focussed practice. These results suggest that training in family-focussed practice needs to be promoted, with considerations made for differing needs according to the characteristics of the adult mental health practitioner.

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Thinking families: A study of the characteristics of the workforce that delivers family‐focussed practice

Goodyear

Maybery

Reupert

et al. 2016

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…Factors contributing to policy and practice change at the state and regional levels were explored Biebel, Nicholson, Williams, & Hinden, 2004), and U.S. intervention models targeting families living with parental mental illness were described using logic models (Hinden, Biebel, Nicholson, Henry, & Katz-Leavy, 2006;Hinden, Biebel, Nicholson, & Mehnert, 2005;Nicholson, Hinden, Biebel, Henry, & KatzLeavy, 2007). Strategies for developing and supporting a workforce targeting families where a parent has a mental illness were identified (Biebel, Nicholson, & Woolsey, 2014).…”

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A systems approach to enhance global efforts to implement family-focused mental health interventions

Falkov

Goodyear

Hosman

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Child & Youth Services

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This paper acknowledges progress over the last 20 years in addressing intergenerational risks to the mental health of children whose parents experience mental illness (COPMI-Children of Parents with a Mental Illness and FaPMI-Families Where a Parent Has a Mental Illness) and emphasises ongoing challenges to implement evidence informed family focused interventions. Challenges include variability in practice at individual, regional, and cross-national service system levels and the gap between implementation science and practice. This article begins to address this gap with descriptions of key systems approaches and implementation strategies from around the world to illustrate variability and common themes. A multifaceted, integrated systems approach is proposed as a way forward. Learnings and experience from initiatives, expertise and evidence targeting other vulnerable groups and successful change implementation will enhance existing (COPMI/FaPMI) efforts to facilitate systems change and improve the lives and futures of these children and families around the world.

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“…Yet while nurses working in adult mental health services have recognized family needs as part of their role, they do not readily interact with consumers about their children and/or families (Biebel et al . ; Goodyear et al . ; Maybery & Reupert ).…”

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Towards relational recovery: Nurses’ practices with consumers and families with dependent children in mental health inpatient units

Foster

Isobel

2017

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Facilitating parent-child and family connections during parental hospitalization provides important opportunities for mental health services to support individual and family recovery. Nurses are often the primary point of contact for families in the inpatient context. They play an integral role in the care provision of consumers and families and in supporting consumers' recovery. The aim of the present qualitative study was to explore nurses' practice with families in inpatient mental health settings in the context of designated family rooms. Three themes were derived from the thematic analysis of semistructured interviews with 20 nurses from four mental health inpatient units. Nurses experienced tensions within their roles in balancing safety and risk, a lack of confidence in family-focused practices in relation to role expectations, and challenges in juggling nursing care ideals with the contemporary realities of inpatient practice. A family-centred relational recovery approach is recommended for mental health services, which is underpinned by family-focused policies and processes, and supported at an organizational, managerial, and local-unit level. At an individual level, nurses need professional development on the models of care they practice in, explicit role clarity on their practice with families, and education on evidence-based brief family interventions.

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Implementing an intervention for parents with mental illness: Building workforce capacity.

Abstract: As the psychiatric rehabilitation field acknowledges the impact of family life on adults as well as children, and moves toward family informed services, knowledge of how to shape and support this specialized workforce is essential.

Cited by 29 publications

References 26 publications

Thinking families: A study of the characteristics of the workforce that delivers family‐focussed practice

Thinking families: A study of the characteristics of the workforce that delivers family‐focussed practice

A systems approach to enhance global efforts to implement family-focused mental health interventions

Towards relational recovery: Nurses’ practices with consumers and families with dependent children in mental health inpatient units

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