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A Parent Education Initiative in Adult Mental Health: Children of parents diagnosed with mental illness.   Alakus, C - Australian Mental Health Social Work Newsletter p 16-21   2001
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports
Available via: Not Publicly Available

Building Partnerships: Southern Partnership project. 'Listen to the children'   Cowling, V   1997
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports. Project Report and Model for the Development of Interagency Partnerships.
Available via: Not Publicly Available
School of Social Work,The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria.  

Checklists for professionals coming into contact with children of parents with mental health problems    
This checklist was designed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) in consultation with young carers to assist professionals in providing information and supporting children and young people. The College has produced a series of checklists including Checklists for carers of people with mental health problems: questions to ask the psychiatrist. [UK]
Available via: Web
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Web:http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/PDF/Checklist_professionals.pdf

Ecomaps as Visual Tools for Deconstructing Reciprocal Influences: Triage with Disruptive Students at an Alternative School   Carpenter-Aeby, Aeby & Boyd   2007
Ecomaps are diagrams that depict an individual or a family within a societal context, demonstrating the energy, supports, and resources necessary to main­tain specific relationships. Genograms are family trees that identify emotional relationships and intergenerational family patterns. This paper demonstrates the use of ecomaps in a variety of contexts. [US]
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.adi.org/journal/fw07/Carpenter-AebyAebyBoydFall2007.pdf

Evaluation of Carers NSW Young Carer Camp, April 02.   Carers NSW Inc   2002
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports.
Available via: Not Publicly Available
Carers NSW
Sydney, Australia.  

Evaluation of Carers NSW Young Carer Camp: Dec 2000.   Matthey, S.   2001
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports.
Available via: Bookstore/Retail
South West Sydney Area Health Service
Sydney, Australia    02 9280 4744
Email:  yc@carersnsw.asn.au

Evaluation of Carers NSW Young Carer Camp: July 2001.   Matthey, S.   2001
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports
Available via: Not Publicly Available
South West Sydney Area Health Service
Sydney, Australia     02 9280 4744
Email:  yc@carersnsw.asn.au

Evaluation of Carers NSW Young Carer Project (includes Apr 2000 camp).   Matthey, S.   2000
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports.
Available via: Not Publicly Available
South West Sydney Area Health Service
Sydney, Australia    02 9280 4744
Email:  yc@carersnsw.asn.au

Evaluation of the SMILES Program for children with mentally ill parents: Bankstown, Sydney (17-19 January 2001).   Pitman, E & Matthey, S   2002
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports.
Available via: Not Publicly Available
South West Sydney Area Health Service
Sydney, Australia    02 6360 7890
Email:  ericap@ix.net.au

Extent and Impact of Parental Mental Health Problems on Families and the acceptability, accessibility and effectiveness of interventions - Searchable database.   Social Care Institute for Excellence in UK   2006
The Social Care Institute for Excellence in UK conducted a systematic mapping project on 'The extent and impact of parental mental health problems on families and the acceptability, accessibility and effectiveness of interventions'. Using selected inclusion criteria the mapping resulted in a listing of reference details for 754 articles/documents. Searches can be conducted by going to: http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/webdatabases/Intro.aspx?ID=9. The full report describing the mapping project can be found on: http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/map/map01.asp
Available via: Web
Web:http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/webdatabases

Factors to Consider When Working With Parents/Carers Who Have Mental Health Difficulties     2006
Chapter 27a of the ?Looked After Children Manual? outlines the areas to be addressed regarding the welfare of the parent and child. [UK]
Available via: Web
Cambridgeshire County Council
Web:http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/94EE657B-F1DE-4C7A-8D25-79835D95A376/0/Chapter27.pdf

Families that have Alcohol and Mental Health Problems   Social Care Institute for Excellence in the UK  
Workforce development for professionals. A template for partnership working.
Available via: Web
Social Care Institute for Excellence in the UK
Web:http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/resourceguides/rg01/index.asp

Feeling Fine and Fitting In: A psycho-educational support programme for children whose parents are affected by mental illness - a collaborative process.   Pollock, J.   2001
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports.
Available via: Not Publicly Available
Queenscliff Community Health Service, NSW
 (02) 9466 2500

Glimpses     2009
Glimpses. A compilation of uncensored real life experiences with Mental Illness. Updated and distributed quarterly in an electronic format, Glimpses provides a unique insight into the life of those living with a mental illness. People in their late teens or early 20's are encouraged to contribute with their stories. Contact Nicci Wall - Mental Health Advocate Email: forwalls@xi.com.au for details.
Available via: Email
Email:  forwalls@xi.com.au
Web:http://www.mmha.org.au/information/news-items/glimpses/

High Risk Infants Service Quality Initiative Evaluation: Implementation of the Parent Assessment and Skill Development Program,   Campbell, L., Jackson, A.C., Smith, S., Cameron, N.   2001
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports. High Risk Infants Service Quality Initiative Evaluation: Implementation of the Parent Assessment and Skill Development Program.
Available via: Not Publicly Available
Victorian Department of Human Services.

High Risk Infants Service Quality Initiatives - Evaluation Report   Campbell, L., Jackson, A.C., Smith, S., Cameron, N.   2000
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports
Available via: Not Publicly Available
Victorian Department of Human Services

IMPACT Program Evaluation - 12 month group program for family members where a parent has a mental illness 1996.   Devlin, J.   1996
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports
Available via: Not Publicly Available
Wentworth Area Mental Health Services
PO Box 63 Penrith, NSW  2751

Interactive Use of Genograms and Ecomaps and Genograms   Gwen R. Rempel, Anne Neufeld, RN, Kaysi Eastlick Kushner  
This article argues for the concurrent and comparative use of genograms and ecomaps in family caregiving research.
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.researchgate.net/publication/5670819_Interactive_use_of_genograms_and_ecomaps_in_family_caregiving_research

KOPING Statewide Training; Supporting Children Whose Parents Are Living with a Mental Health Problem. Final Report.   KOPING Forum (2002)   2002
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports

Available via: Not Publicly Available
Child and Youth Mental Health Service, Royal Children's Hospital and Health Service District and Royal Children's Hospital Foundation.

Living with Personality Disorder - Supporting Better Parenting.   Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network   2010
The full report from this thought provoking and interactive study day in London and the one that preceded it in Leeds (March 2009).

Packed with lively and informative write-ups from the sessions that comprised these events, this report is a useful tool for anyone working and/or living in the world of personality disorders who would like to increase their understanding of these complex disorders and ways of working to support people both as parents, with what is ?no longer a diagnosis of exclusion?, and as children living with a parent with PD.

Available via: Web
Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network
Web:http://www.pmhcwn.org.uk/newsitems/living.asp

Mazes and Minefields: An alternative approach to considering the needs of mothers who experience the effects of mental illness at the interface of FAYS and the mental health system.   Women's Health Statewide   2002
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports.
A resource for workers. 2002

Available via: Not Publicly Available
Women's Health Statewide
Web:http://www.whs.sa.gov.au

Mental Health Inpatient Service Family Friendly Checklist    
This checklist was developed in consultation with Australian Infant Child Adolescent Family Mental Health Association (AICAFMHA) and consumers and their families and service providers. [Australia]
Available via: Web
COPMI
Web:http://www.copmi.net.au/common/download.html#checklist

Parental substance misuse and children's entry into Alternative Care in South Australia, 2006 (Research Bulletin)   Department for Families and Communities, Business Affairs Research Unit: Jeffreys, H., Hirte, C., Rogers, C. & Wilson, R.   2008
This study has focused on the extent to which problematic alcohol and substance use are factors influencing children's entry into care. It has also collected a range of data relating to family circumstances and problems; the impact on children and the services provided in response and outcomes. Findings have implications for both the child protection and drug and alcohol fields, in relation to policy, strategy and service delivery.
Available via: Web
Department for Families and Communities, Business Affairs Research Unit
Web:http://www.dfc.sa.gov.au/pub/tabid/223/itemid/1406/Substance-misuse-and-child-protection-seminar.aspx

Parents and Children's Group 2004 Evaluation Report   Fernbacher, S,, Obradovic, A., & Wines, M.   2005
Report on the evaluation of the Parents and Childrens Group.
Available via: Email
NorthWestern Mental Health, Victoria.
Email:  Sabin.Fernbacher@mh.org.au

Parents in Partnership: Developing services to better meet the needs of parents who have a mental illness   Cuff, R and Mildred, H   1998
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports
Available via: Not Publicly Available
Mental Health Branch of the Department of Human Services

Parents with severe mental illness and their children: The need for human services integration   Blanch, Nicholson & Purcell   1994
Presents findings and recommendations of the New York State Task Force On Mentally Ill Parents with Young Children, an interagency task force to help consumers and professionals identify the needs of such parents. Based on public testimony from consumers, providers, and advocates as well as mentally ill parents and their children, the task force concluded that this is a neglected public policy issue requiring an intergovernmental, services integration approach. [US]
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2736483l1l11282/

Patients As Parents   The Royal College of Psychiatrists  
Workforce development for professionals

The Royal College of Psychiatrists council report addressing the needs, including the safety of children whose parents have mental illness.
Available via: Web
The Royal College of Psychiatrists , UK
Web:http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/new/index.htm

Peer Support for Children Of Parents With Mental Illness: Program Design and Evaluation.   Cuff, R. and Pietsch, J.   1997
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports
Available via: Not Publicly Available
Mental Health Research Institute

Primary Schools: A venue for mental health/illness promotion: A pilot project. Australian and New Zealand   Allchin, B., Candy, L., Joyce, A., Malmborg, J   2001
TheMHS Conference Proceedings.
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.themhs.org/p.aspx?n=BCDDV-UQCKM-PICVO-JFRHB-OLWTJ

Promoting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people from families with a parental mental illness; Key Findings and Promising Practices   Maybery, D. et al   2006
Program outcome report summary (with links to full evaluation reports) of the PATS and VicChamps programs.
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/en/Resource-Centre/Publications-and-Resources/Social-connection/Children-and-young-people-from-families-with-a-parental-mental-illness.aspx

SCIE Research Briefing 29: Black and minority ethnic parents with mental health problems and their children   Social Care Institute for Excellence   2008
Explores the issue of UK black and minority ethnic (BME) parents with mental health problems. Main findings are that BME parents with mental health problems are more likely to experience poverty, discrimination and difficulties in accessing effective and appropriate mental health services, are more commonly reluctant to access mental health services and are more poorly serviced by mental health services.

Available via: Web
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Web:http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/briefings/briefing29/

Serving the children of parents with a mental illness: Barriers, break-throughs and benefits   Dean & Macmillan   2001
This paper describes what has been learnt within the ?Children in Families Affected by Mental Illness? project in South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service in regard to introducing a systematic approach in adult mental health services to children where parents have a mental illness. It looks at the barriers encountered, the strategies required to overcome them; and mechanisms to incorporate children's issues into the routine practice of adult mental health services. [Australia]
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.aicafmha.net.au/conferences/brisbane2001/papers/dean_c.htm

SMILES Program: A group program for children with mentally ill parents or siblings.   Pitman, E & Matthey, s   2002
Journal article
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 2004, Vol 74 No 3 383-388
Available via: Not Publicly Available
 02 6360 7890
Email:  ericap@ix.net.au

SMILES/Explorations Canadian Program Report.   Pitman-Smith, E., (American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, accepted for publication April 2003).   2003
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports
Available via: Not Publicly Available
Mental Illness Education - Australia (NSW) Inc
Sydney, Australia    02 6360 7890
Email:  ericap@ix.net.au

Steps Toward Evidence-Based Practices for Parents with Mental Illness and Their Families   Hinden, B, Biebel, K, Nicholson, J., Henry, A., Stier, L.   2002
Overseas Program Evaluation Reports

Available via: Web
Web:http://www.mentalhealth.org/publications/allpubs/KEN02-0133/

Stress and resilience factors in parents with mental health problems and their children.   Parrott, Jacobs & Roberts,   2008
Stress and resilience factors in parents with mental health problems and their children. This SCIE briefing (100.41KB) focuses on factors contributing to stress or resilience in families where one or both parents have mental health problems
Available via: Web
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
Email:  info@scie.org.uk
Web:http://www.pmhcwn.org.uk/files/scare23.pdf

Summary Evaluation of Carers NSW Young Carer Camps: 2000-2001.   Matthey, S.   2003
Australian Program Evaluations/Reports
Available via: Not Publicly Available
South West Sydney Area Health Service
Sydney, Australia  

Super Saturday Club, The; A review of an innovative recreational program for children living in families with parental mental illness.   Marsh, J., Nash, N., Simpson, D.   2002
Overseas Program Evaluation Reports

Available via: Not Publicly Available
Vancouver Community Health Service c/- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
200 West 6th Avenue Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z 4H5

Support and Family Education ? What We Tell Our Children and Other People About Mental Illness    
US Department of Veterans Affairs outline for workshop on discussing mental illness. Also includes lists of resources for young children and adolescents. [US]
Available via: Web
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Web:http://www.ouhsc.edu/Safeprogram/17Kids.pdf

The Mental Health of Australians 2: Report on the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing     2009
This report presents a comprehensive summary of the results of the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. It provides information on the prevalence of mental disorders, their severity, associated suicidality, and comorbidity with other mental disorders and physical conditions, as well as what services people use for their mental health problems. The 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing is the second major epidemiological survey of its kind undertaken in Australia, with the first conducted in 1997. The survey is a general household survey of the adult population aged 16-85 years and focuses on the more common or high prevalence mental disorders, namely affective disorders (including depression), anxiety disorders and substance use disorders.
Available via: Web
Department of Health and Ageing
Web:http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/mental-pubs-m-mhaust2

Think child, think family: How adult specialist services can support children at-risk of abuse and neglect.   Scott, D.   2009
Article on how adult specialist services can support children at risk of abuse and neglect. [Australia]
Available via: Journal
Australian Institute of Family Studies

Why Draw Genograms Anyway?   Memmott  
Genograms are an efficient way to obtain a history, can be used to promote therapist empathy and understanding. [US]
Available via: Web
Washburn University, Department of Social Work
Web:http://www.washburn.edu/main/sas/social-work/FORMS/Genograms_70.pdf

Workforce capacity to respond to children whose parents have a mental illness   Maybery & Reupert   2006
The first of the three objectives of this study was to identify the core barriers that impede adult mental health and other clinicians from working with consumers about parenting and child-related issues. The second and third objectives were to rate the importance of these barriers and to compare barriers for adult mental health workers with other workers. [Australia]
Available via: Web
Web:http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a769157239

Working together with families and carers: Chief Psychiatrist's Guideline     2005
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide AMHS with a framework in which to:
- develop clinical practice standards
- consider issues relevant to working with families and carers
- establish expectations of mental health service clinicians in working with families and carers
- clarify legislative and confidentiality provisions [Australia]
Available via: Web
Department of Human Services, Victoria
Web:http://www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth/cpg/families.htm