Working with parents with a serious mental illness: What do service providers think?

Byrne, Linda K.; Hearle, Jenny; Plant, Karen M.; Barkla, Jo; Jenner, Linda; McGrath, John

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“…A prominent and consistent barrier, identified across and within countries, was the lack of policy and consistent guidelines to identify the parenting status of service users when they access psychiatric services. Byrne et al. (2000) found that while two‐thirds of adult mental health workers in one state of Australia (Queensland) routinely recorded parenting status, in another state (New South Wales) this was not mandatory.…”

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“…Another policy barrier was the inadequate resource allocation for family‐focused practice, including the provision of time (Byrne et al. 2000, Thompson & Fudge 2004, Maybery & Reupert 2006, Korhonen et al.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…2000, Thompson & Fudge 2004, Maybery & Reupert 2006, Korhonen et al. 2008a) and having to deal with high client workloads (Byrne et al. 2000).…”

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Parental mental illness: a review of barriers and issues for working with families and children

Maybery

Reupert

2009

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Many consumers of psychiatric services are parents, making these services the opportunistic point for supporting consumers' children. While evidence suggests that assisting such children improves their mental health, there is a large gulf between what psychiatric services should (or could) provide and what they do in practice. This paper summarizes the constraining barriers and issues for the psychiatric workforce according to: (1) policy and management; (2) interagency collaboration; (3) worker attitude,skill and knowledge; (4) the parent-consumer; and (5) the consumer's family, including children. Potential solutions are presented, with a particular focus on the hierarchical nature of these barriers. Recommendations are made, including organizational audits to identify the most pressing barriers that impede family sensitive practice.

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Parental mental illness: a review of barriers and issues for working with families and children

Maybery

Reupert

2009

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…Maybery and Reupert (2009) have summarized these into three main areas: policy and management; interagency collaboration; and clinician attitudes, skills, and knowledge. With respect to clinicians, Byrne et al . (2000) identified that mental health service providers described working with these families as ‘often difficult and complex’ (p. 23).…”

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Developing resilient children and families when parents have mental illness: A family‐focused approach

Foster

O’Brien

Korhonen³

2011

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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There is substantial evidence supporting the need for effective intervention for children and families living with parental mental illness. However, translation of this knowledge into mental health workforce practice remains variable, with a range of clinical practices and models of care evident. Nurses, who constitute the majority of the mental health workforce, are in prime positions to support children and families and provide preventative measures, identify those at risk, and intervene early. In this paper, we provide a framework for practice for nurses working with consumer parents. We contend that traditional models of nursing practice concentrating on the consumer are insufficient in meeting the needs of children and families living with parental mental illness. A focus on families needs to be core business for mental health nurses. A family-focused approach can be used to prevent problems for children and their families, and identify their strengths as well as vulnerabilities. Family-focused care is a useful framework from which to support families and address the challenges that might arise from parental mental illness, and to build individual and family resilience.

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“…During that time Paul White, Robyn Hayes and John McGrath contributed to over a dozen Cochrane reviews [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Other projects examined the needs of parents with serious mental illness [19][20][21][22][23][24], the identification of psychoses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations as well as in correctional settings and in the measurement of quality of life in patients with mental illness [25][26][27]. Other projects examined the needs of parents with serious mental illness [19][20][21][22][23][24], the identification of psychoses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations as well as in correctional settings and in the measurement of quality of life in patients with mental illness [25][26][27].…”

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Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research: The First 17 Years

McGrath

Mowry

Whiteford

2005

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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Working with parents with a serious mental illness: What do service providers think?

Cited by 25 publications

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Parental mental illness: a review of barriers and issues for working with families and children

Parental mental illness: a review of barriers and issues for working with families and children

Developing resilient children and families when parents have mental illness: A family‐focused approach

Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research: The First 17 Years

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