Research articles

Encouraging the sharing of research and project evaluations in the area of families where a parent has a mental illness

Research provided here has been submitted by clinicians, researchers and students and is ethics approved or has been conducted ethically with the informed consent of participants.

• Research items 
• Program evaluations

Research items

Young people

• Gaining knowledge about parental mental illness: Does it empower children? 
• Intervention programs for children whose parents have a mental illness: a review
• Can early intervention help children who have a parent with a severe mental illness? A literature review and services evaluation abstract. (Request full articles from Anna Wiederroth)

Parents

• 'It's not that straight forward': When Family Support Is Challenging for Mothers Living With Mental Illness (Abstract). Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
• The experiences of parents with an eating disorder 
• The Father's Information Resource: A mixed-method website evaluation 
• Obstetric and neonatal outcomes of pregnant women with severe mental illness at a specialist antenatal clinic

Families

• Lives unseen: unacknowledged trauma of non-disordered, competent Adult Children Of Parents with a Severe Mental Illness (ACOPSMI)
• Goal setting in recovery: families where a parent has a mental illness or a dual diagnosis 
• Goal setting within family care planning: families with complex needs 

Workforce initiatives

• “Family Focus": An evaluation of an e-learning resource for professionals working with families where a parent has anxiety and/or depression 
• Mental health consumer and carer participation: why we bother

Program evaluations

Programs for parents

• Enhancing parenting skills for parents with mental illness: the Mental Health Positive Parenting Program
• An Evaluation: Use of the Circle of Security Handouts within the Women and Children's Program

Programs for young people

• The clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of community-based interventions aimed at improving or maintaining quality of life in children of parents with serious mental illness: a systematic review. - International review including COPMI programs in Australia.
• Outcomes of the On Fire peer support programme for childen and adolesents in families with mental health problems
• Experiences of peer support for childen and adolescents whose parents and siblings have mental illness
• 'SMILES' program evaluations: A peer-supported program for children whose parent or sibling has a mental illness
• Taz Kids Club Evaluation Report - University of Tasmania

Submit COPMI-related research

The COPMI national initiative aims to facilitate access to research and project evaluations. However, if your work is of a general nature and/or of interest to an Australian audience, we encourage you to contribute.

Please contact copmi@copmi.net.au for more information.
 

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