Resources for Child Protection/Justice Workers


Book/s

Addressing Family Needs When A Parent Is Mentally Ill.   Falkov, A.   2002
Chapter in: "Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services"
Available via: Bookstore/Retail
H. Ward and W. Rose. London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 235-260.

Child protection & adult mental health. Conflict of Interest?   Weir A, Douglas A.   1999
Book
Available via: Not Publicly Available
London: Butterworth Heinemann.

Child Protection and Mental Health Services: Interprofessional responses to the needs of mothers   Stanley, N., Penhale, B. et al   2003
This book examines interprofessional work with families where mothers have mental health problems and there are also child protection issues. (UK)
Available via: Bookstore/Retail
Web:http://www.copmi.net.au/common/book_reviews.html

Child Protection and parental mental illness, The Victorian Child Protection Service.   Ross, R.   1999
Chapter in: Children of Parents With Mental Illness. V. Cowling. : 87-108.
Available via: Bookstore/Retail
Melbourne, Australian Council for Educational research
Web:http://www.acer.edu.au/

Children of Parents with Mental Illness   Vicki Cowling   2004
Children of Parents with Mental Illness is a groundbreaking study into the frequently overlooked impact on children whose parents have a mental illness. By balancing theory with first-hand experiences from parents and adult children, it examines the nature of a wide range of psychological disorders.Through case studies, it analyses a parent's ability to still function in the role of caregiver, and the impact their illness can have on their children. Children of Parents with Mental Illness describes a possible model of inter-agency support and provides information that was initiated in the southern metropolitan region of Melbourne.
Available via: Email
ACER Press
347 Camberwell Rd Camberwell 3124  (03) 9835 7447
Email:  sales@acer.edu.au
Web:http://www.acer.edu.au

Out of the Shadows: Daughters growing up with a 'mad' mother   Catherine Camden Pratt   2006
This Australian book brings together eleven women, including the author, who tell their stories of living with a mentally ill mother.
Available via: Bookstore/Retail
Web:http://www.copmi.net.au/common/book_reviews.html

Parenting Well When You're Depressed.   Nicholson, J., A. Henry, et al.   2001
Book
Available via: Bookstore/Retail
Oakland CA, New Harbinger Publications.

Studies in the Assessment of Parenting   Eds: Peter Reder, Sylvia Duncan and Clare Lucey   2003
Brings together ackowledged experts who explore the complexities in parenting assessments and engaging parents in ongoing therapy and development. Key themes in this comprehensive guide include a practical approach and considering the child's perpective whilst assessing parents.
Available via: Bookstore/Retail

What you always wanted to know about mental health legislation but were too afraid to ask! A Victorian perspective.   O'Hanlon, B. and A. Obradovic   1999
Chapter in: Children of Parents With Mental Illness. V. Cowling. 79-86.
Available via: Bookstore/Retail
Melbourne, The Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd.:
Web:http://www.acer.edu.au/

Working Together to Support Disabled Parents   Jenny Morris and Michele Wates: Social Care Institute for Excellence, UK   2007
This resource guide explains how adults and children's services, along with other agencies, can develop local joint-working protocols to support families in which parents have additional needs related to physical and/or sensory impairments, learning disabilities, mental health, drug and alcohol-related problems or serious illnesses. It outlines the steps services must take to plan, implement, monitoring and evaluate a local joint-working protocol and includes principles of good practice, policy and legislative framework and examples of case studies.
Available via: Web
Social Care Institiute for Excellence (UK)
Web:http://www.scie.org.uk/

Website/Online

A Resource Guide on Parenting for People with Disability in NSW  2007
This website includes Quick Find Service List, Pathways to Parenthood in book, CD and braille formats, as well as Resource Guides on Planning for Pregnancy, equipment and adapted aides for pregnancy, support and information for early years (8-10 years), advocacy services, etc.
Available via: Web
NSW Network of Women with Disability and the Pathways to Parenthood Project Team
40 Albion Street, NSW, Australia Harris Park 2150  1800 629 072
Email:  women@mdaa.org.au
Web:http://www.femability.org.au/parenting_with_disability.htm

Evaluation of the Mental Health Liaison Project  2007
A report evaluating the Mental Health Liaison Project, where an experienced mental health nurse works within the intake and assessment team of a state child protection service district office. The mental health nurse assists with the assessment of parents and mobilisation of services according to a family's level of need. The report highlights what worked well and the benefits it offered to clients. The report also gives recommendations about how the project could be developed in the future to offer effective support to parents with a mental illness.
Available via: Web
Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
Web:http://www.unisa.edu.au/childprotection/publications.asp

Multicultural Mental Health Australia Website  
A national leader in mental health and suicide prevention for Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities the MMHA's objective is to provide consumers, carers and mental health professionals with the latest information on resources, services, research, conferences and events relating to multicultural mental health.
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.mmha.org.au/

UK Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network Website  2007
The Network is for social care and health workers who work with parents with a mental health problem or their children. It has been set up to promote joint working between adult mental health and children's services. The website includes information about the Network, links to key resources in adult mental health and children's services, and information about Network and related events.
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.pmhcwn.org.uk/index.asp

Package/Kits

Crossing bridges: Training resources for working with mentally ill parents and their children.  1998
Reader for managers, practitioners and trainers.
Available via: Web
Brighton, East Sussex, Pavillion Publishing for Department of Health, U.K.
Web:http://www.pavpub.com/pavpub/home/index.asp

Dual Diagnosis Support Kit  2006
The Dual Diagnosis Support Kit includes information for workers, foster carers, and parents with dual diagnosis - as well as two storybooks for children aged 5 -7 years and 8 -12 years, plus a handy wallet-sized information card for adolescents. The kit is downloadable from the DoCS website and available through the website free of charge.
Available via: Web
 (02) 9716 2356
Web:http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/html/news_publications/dual_diagnosis.htm

Keeping the Family In Mind Resource Pack  2003
Research report Video "telling It Like It Is' Evaluation of the Family Room Young Carers Mental health Resource Pack 10 messages from Young Carers
Available via: Email
Barnado's Action with Young Carers
24 Colquitt St Liverpool (UK) L1 4DE Email:  louise.wardale@barnados.org.uk

PARENTING, CHILDREN AND MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE KIT  
A spiral bound resource booklet of reproducible fact sheets. Designed to support workers and families around issues to do with parenting and mental illness.
Available via: Email
Ruth Phelan, Central Coast Health
c/- Bindaree, PO Box 361 Gosford, NSW 2250 Gosford, NSW 2250  (02) 4372 7275
Email:  rphelan@nsccahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Web:http://www.copmi.net.au/jsp/resources/files/parenting_kit_index.html

Supporting Our Family  2000
This Kit contains a letter to the parent from the Adult Children, a 'Care Plan', a sample letter to the school, a checklist, a list of resources, information for mental health care workers, important telephone numbers and a feedback sheet.
Available via: Web
COMIC (Children Of Mentally Ill Consumers)
Email:  comic.admin@bigpond.com
Web:http://www.howstat.com/comic

The Developing World of the Child: Resource pack  2007
Multiple-media pack bringing new perspectives on child development, looking at children in their varied and diverse contexts. It builds vital bridges between the need to understand children's development and the ways practitioners carry out their tasks when working with children and families.
Available via: Web
NSPCC Publications
Weston House, 42 Curtain Rd.  London EC2A 3NH  Web:http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform

Factsheet/Pamphlets

Parents with Mental Illness - Fact sheets (set of 5)  2006
A set of factsheets to help support parents with a mental illness, and their children.
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/resources/HCN1468_KitesSFactSheetsFIN.pdf

CD/DVD/Videos

I Love You Like Crazy - Being a Parent with a Mental Illness  
Eight mothers and fathers who have mental illness discuss the challenges they face as parents. No one knows how many parents must cope with mental illness while raising children, but it is a far larger number than is generally realized. (As seen at the 1999 White House Conference on Mental Health). This tape is an introduction to some of the problems these parents are dealing with as they strive to be effective, supportive and loving mothers and fathers.
Availabile via: Web The Mental Illness Education Project
Web:http://www.miepvideos.org/

It's only 1/100th me' Stories of 6 People Challenging Stigma and Discrimination Surrounding Mental Illness.  2007
Challenging Stigma and Discrimination This project is the start of a campaign to challenge stigma and discrimination towards people experiencing mental illness. In the first stage we have produced a DVD of people's stories. The DVD presents personal experiences of stigma, discrimination and the impacts of these. The DVD also describes experiences of inclusion and the importance of being accepted and valued. Go to www.nswcag.org.au and click on PROJECTS and "Challenging Stigma and Discrimination". Copies of the DVD can also be purchased for $5. Contact us at NSW CAG on 9332 0200 or ycotton@nswcag.org.au.
Availabile via: Web NSW CAG - New South Wales Consumer Advisory Group
 02 9332 0200
Email:  ycotton@nswcag.org.au.
Web:http://www.mentalhealth.asn.au/members/nswcag/index.htm

Matthew Heath  2006
A short Australian documentary film. In his own words Matthew tells of the challenges his family has faced in coming to terms with his father's mental illness.
Availabile via: Web  02 93254444
Web:http://www.hopeawards.com.au

Telling It Like It Is  2003
Assists professionals to understand the issues young carers face as children and young people growing up in a family where a parent has mental health problems.
Availabile via: Email Barnados Action with Young Carers
24 Colquitt St  Liverpool (UK) L1 4DE  0151 708 7322
Email:  louise.wardale@barnados.org.uk

Care Plans

Care Plan  2000
'CarePlan' for a child to fill out with the help from a parent when well and mental health care professional if necessary. The aim is to have a 'Care Plan' in place should the parent become unwell and need hospitalisation. Children are often concerned who they will stay with and the most frequent question asked is "Who will give me my pocket money?" Can be downloaded from COMIC website and is part of the "Supporting Our Family Kit"
Available via: Web
Email: comic.admin@bigpond.com
Web:http://www.howstat.com/comic

Other Literature

Assessing Parental Competence in Child Protection Cases: A clinical practice model.   Budd, S.   2001
Journal article
Available via: Journal
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 4(1): 1-17.

Child Maltreatment and Mental Disorder; Discussion Paper No. 3,   Tomison, A. M.   1996
Discussion paper
Available via: Web
National Child Protection Clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Web:http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/

Children's Needs - Parenting Capacity: The impact of parental mental illness, problem alcohol and drug use, and domestic violence on children's development.   Cleaver H, Unell I, Aldgate J.   1999
Report
Available via: Not Publicly Available
London: The Stationery Office, 1999.

Decision Making in Care and Protection: The expert assessment.   Lennings, C.   2002
Journal article
Available via: Web
Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health 1(2):
Web:http://www.auseinet.com/journal/vol1iss2/Lennings.pdf.

Fatal Assault of Children and Young People.   Lawrence R, Fattore T, Joung W.   2002
Article
Available via: Web
Sydney: New South Wales Commission for Children and Young People.
Web:http://www.kids.nsw.gov.au/publications/order.html

High Risk Infants Service Quality Improvement Initiatives - Evaluation Report.   Campbell, L., A. C. Jackson, et al.   2000
Evaluation report
Available via: In-house Publication
Melbourne, Victorian Department of Human Services.

High Risk Infants Service Quality Initiative Evaluation: Implementation of the Parent Assessment and Skill Development Program.   Campbell, L., A. C. Jackson, et al.   2001
Report
Available via: In-house Publication
Melbourne, Victorian Department of Human Services.

Mental Health and Changing Families   Robinson, E.   2003
Conference presentation
Available via: Web
Australian Institiute of Family Studies Conference Proceedings, Melbourne 2003
Web:http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/afrc8/papers.html

Mental Health and the Family Law System.   Rodgers, B   2004
Journal article
Available via: Journal
Journal of Family Studies 2004;10(1):50-70.

Mental health issues in child protection cases.   Sheehan, R.   1997
Journal article
Available via: Journal
Children Australia 22(4): 14-20.

Programs for the Promotion of Family Wellness and the Prevention of Child Maltreatment: A meta-analytic review.   MacLeod, J. and G. Nelson   2000
Journal article
Available via: Journal
Child Abuse and Neglect 24(9): 1127-1149.

Women Who Kill Their Children.   D'Orban PT.   1979
Journal article
Available via: Journal
British Journal of Psychiatry 134: 560 - 571.


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