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Out of the Mainstream
This book identifies aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children's development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively.
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Out of the Mainstream
Out of the Mainstream identifies those aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children's development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively. With chapters from professionals working primarily with children or adults, in different agencies and in specialist teams or in the community, the book illustrates the ways in which the needs of mentally ill parents and their children can be understood.
The book outlines different theoretical approaches which may be in use alongside each other, including:
A systems theory approach to work with families and with agencies;
The psychoanalytic understanding of mental illness and its impact on family relationships and organisations;
An educational approach to supporting staff, children and parents;
A psychiatric or bio-medical model of work
Out of the Mainstream considers how the diverse groups of agencies, specialist teams and groups in the community can work together, even when many barriers may hinder the effective co- working between individuals and these various groups. It will be an invaluable resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, health visitors, mental health nurses, teachers and voluntary sector agency staff.
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Reflections
In Part I we identified an unending and relentless process of loss and change to which both staff in organisations, and no less the families with whom they worked, were subject. The project has, inevitably in times of economic and political upheaval, also suffered loss and change, as well as several unrealised aspects; these included an attached health visitor with her special knowledge of infants and under-fives; a dedicated youth worker to provide more activities and group work with children; more learning opportunities for school staff about the impact on children of parental mental illness, and a parenting programme specifically designed for this group of parents. A parent who had attended such a programme commented that it had made her feel like any other parent with ordinary parenting difficulties. That these developments did not materialise was attributable not only to the intense competition for limited funding, but also to continuing uncertainty about the ability of the agency structures at senior level to establish a joint commitment to the project which could adequately contain and sustain staff members' energy and morale.
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Making a difference
'What can one person do?' Response of a child care team manager to the appointment of the coordinator (2002).
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Hidden children
This book is concerned with a group of children who, though vulnerable, remain hidden from their teachers, friends and neighbours, and professional networks. Philip Pullman, in his trilogy 'His Dark Materials', helps us to understand one of the reasons for this:
Will had first realised that his mother was different from other people and that he had to look after her when he was seven years... So he kept his mother's trouble secret... And he learned how to conceal himself too, how not to attract attention from the neighbours, even when his mother was in such a state of fear and madness that she could barely speak. What Will feared more than anything, was that the authorities would find out about her and take her away and put him in a home among strangers.
(Pullman 1997: 8-11)
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Working with the impossible
Yet work with psychosis is not normal work. It is not to be confused with any general kind of work. It is work with the incomprehensible.
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The children's specialist in the adult mental health team
This chapter describes the important development of the project from a position where there was just one person, the coordinator, in post, to one in which, after a pilot period, we were able to place children's specialists in one, and then two of the four adult mental health teams in the borough, and thus expand our aims.
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Loss and change in the setting
Despite the impact of information technology, and of the market culture which has dominated management styles for so long, our public sector health and child welfare services remain concerned with humanity, with people, with their relationships, the patterns and fabric of their lives, and with the meanings they attach to experiences. Just as in work with a child or family one seeks to know and understand something of the context in which they may be struggling, so it is relevant also, in thinking about the difficulties individual professionals and their agencies have in working together, to understand and to hold in mind something of the history of relationships, and of the socio-economic and political climate in which they operate.
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