| Description |
xix, 242 pages ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Alice -- 2. Understanding and explaining the genetics of mental illness / David A. Hay -- 3. Infants of mothers with mental illness / Annd Sved Williams -- 4. Talking with children whose parents experience mental illness / Adrian Falkov -- 5. On adolescence and having a parent with mental illness / Graham Martin and Tracey Kay -- 6. Miriam's story / Miriam Carr -- 7. Finding beauty / Mikhaela Delahunty -- 8. In a daughter's voice: a mental health nurse's experience of being the daughter of a mother with schizophrenia / Kim Blair -- 9. Who am I? 'Madness', my favourite pop group, split up a long time ago / Frances Thomson-Salo -- 10. Listening to the child and structuring a future for children placed in out-of-home care who have a parent with a mental health issue: the Royal Children's Hospital Stargate program / Marell Lynch and Jolyon Grimwade -- 11. Permanent placement of children of parents with mental illness / Janet Allen -- 12. Issues relating to long-term, out-of-home care for children of parents with mental illness / Sonia Russell -- 13. Cultural considerations in understanding parents with mental illness and their children / Guy Coffey and Wendy Fromhold -- 14. Peer support activities for children and young people who have a family member with mental illness / Vicki Cowling, Rose Cuff, Jennifer Luntz and Katharina Verscharen -- 15. How we fail to care for children of mentally ill parents: psychological revisionism in child mental health care / George Halasz -- Appendix. Hypothetical / David A. Hay |
| Summary |
This title looks at the insights and experiences of children and adults who have lived or grown up with parents with a mental illness. The experiences highlight the need to think of all family members when a parent has a mental illness and identifies the needs of children who need to belong and have someone to talk to |
| Analysis |
Children of the mentally ill - Australia |
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Mentally ill - Australia |
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Parent-child relations |
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Mental Disorders |
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Mentally Ill - Services for - Australia |
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Children of the mentally ill - Services for - Australia |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children of the mentally ill -- Australia.
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Mentally ill -- Australia.
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Child Welfare.
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Infant.
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Mental Disorders -- psychology.
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Mental Health Services.
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Child of Impaired Parents -- psychology.
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Adolescent.
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Child.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Author |
Cowling, Vicki.
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Australian Council for Educational Research.
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| LC no. |
00002518 |
| ISBN |
0864314736 : |
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