Outcomes of Short Course Interprofessional Education in Parental Mental Illness and Child Protection: Self-efficacy, Attitudes and Knowledge

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Carpenter ◽  
Demi Patsios ◽  
Eszter Szilassy ◽  
Simon Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Interprofessional Education ◽  
Parental Mental Illness ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge

scholarly journals A Family-Focused Intervention for Parental Mental Illness: A Practitioner Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mairead Furlong ◽  
Christine Mulligan ◽  
Sharon McGarr ◽  
Siobhan O'Connor ◽  
Sinead McGilloway
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Parental Mental Illness ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mental Health Settings

Background: Parental mental illness (PMI) is common and can lead to children developing mental disorders. Family Talk (FT) is a well-known and widely implemented intervention designed to reduce the risk of transgenerational psychopathology. However, given the research to practise “gap,” very little qualitative research, to date, has investigated practitioner experiences in implementing FT. This study aimed to explore the practitioner-perceived barriers and facilitators to the implementation and sustainability of FT within mainstream mental health settings.Methods: This qualitative study was nested within a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of Family Talk [N = 86 families (139 parents, 221 children)] within 15 adult (AMHS), child (CAMHS), primary care mental health, and child protection sites in Ireland. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were undertaken with a purposive sample of clinicians (n = 31) and managers (n = 10), based on their experiences of implementing FT. Interview data were transcribed verbatim, analysed using constructivist grounded theory, and informed by Fixsen's implementation science framework.Results: Service providers highlighted a number of benefits for approximately two thirds of families across different diagnoses and mental health settings (AMHS/CAMHS/primary care). Sites varied in their capacity to embed FT, with key enablers identified as acquiring managerial and organisational support, building clinician skill, and establishing interagency collaboration. Implementation challenges included: recruitment difficulties, stresses in working with multiply-disadvantaged families, disruption in delivery due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, and sustainability concerns (e.g., perceived fit of FT with organisational remit/capacity, systemic and cultural barriers to change).Conclusion: This study is only the second qualitative study ever conducted to explore practitioner experiences in implementing FT, and the first conducted within the context of an RCT and national research programme to introduce family-focused practise (FFP) for families living with PMI. The findings illuminate the successes and complexities of implementing FFP in a country without a “think family” infrastructure, whilst highlighting a number of important generalisable lessons for the implementation of FT, and other similar interventions, elsewhere.

scholarly journals Concerns about the children of psychiatric in-patients – what the parents say

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 495-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Stormont ◽  
Tom Craig ◽  
Zerrin Atakan ◽  
Peter Loader ◽  
Cindy Williams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Parental Mental Illness ◽  
Adult Mental Health

There is an increasing body of research literature investigating the effects of parental mental illness on children. This study investigates the views of psychiatric in-patients on consequences of their admission to hospital and their mental illness for their children. The results suggest that the parents do not readily acknowledge that their children have problems, and that interventional approaches require good liaison between adult mental health services and child-focused agencies.

Perceived self‐efficacy of students and its influence on attitudes and knowledge about HIV/AIDS in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell Peprah Opoku ◽  
Elvis Agyei‐Okyere ◽  
William Nketsia ◽  
Eric Lawer Torgbenu ◽  
Emmanuel Opoku Kumi
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Effectiveness of one-to-one peer support for patients with severe mental illness – a randomised controlled trial

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.I. Mahlke ◽  
S. Priebe ◽  
K. Heumann ◽  
A. Daubmann ◽  
K. Wegscheider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Treatment As Usual ◽  
Secondary Outcomes ◽  
One To One ◽  
Randomised Controlled

AbstractBackgroundOne-to-one peer support is a resource-oriented approach for patients with severe mental illness. Existing trials provided inconsistent results and commonly have methodological shortcomings, such as poor training and role definition of peer supporters, small sample sizes, and lack of blinded outcome assessments.MethodsThis is a randomised controlled trial comparing one-to-one peer support with treatment as usual. Eligible were patients with severe mental illnesses: psychosis, major depression, bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder of more than two years’ duration. A total of 216 patients were recruited through in- and out-patient services from four hospitals in Hamburg, Germany, with 114 allocated to the intervention group and 102 to the control group. The intervention was one-to-one peer support, delivered by trained peers and according to a defined role specification, in addition to treatment as usual over the course of six months, as compared to treatment as usual alone. Primary outcome was self-efficacy measured on the General Self-Efficacy Scale at six-month follow-up. Secondary outcomes included quality of life, social functioning, and hospitalisations.ResultsPatients in the intervention group had significantly higher scores of self-efficacy at the six-month follow-up. There were no statistically significant differences on secondary outcomes in the intention to treat analyses.ConclusionsThe findings suggest that one-to-one peer support delivered by trained peer supporters can improve self-efficacy of patients with severe mental disorders over a one-year period. One-to-one peer support may be regarded as an effective intervention. Future research should explore the impact of improved self-efficacy on clinical and social outcomes.

Effects of parental mental illness on children

2006 ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Cressida Manning ◽  
Alain Gregoire
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Parental Mental Illness

Effects of parental mental illness on children and families

2018 ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
Quentin Spender ◽  
Niki Salt ◽  
Judith Dawkins ◽  
Tony Kendrick ◽  
Peter Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Parental Mental Illness ◽  
Children And Families

scholarly journals Is Resilience Affected By Parental Mental Illness? A Study of Tribal Young Adults

2019 ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Gayathri Devadasan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Parental Mental Illness ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Comparison Groups ◽  
Tribal Populations ◽  
Psychological Coping

Resilience is a sign of positive psychological coping amidst adversity. Limited studies have investigated resilience in young adults who have a parent with mental illness, and fewer in tribal populations. This mixed methods study was based on a sequential explanatory model. A pilot field study was conducted with tribal young adults (n=10). The main study aimed to assess resilience in tribal young adults (n=61) through the administration of the Tamil translated version of the Wagnild& Young Resilience Scale (2009). Purposive sampling from a tribal hospital’s records derived young adults from 4 vulnerable tribal communities residing in Nilgiri hills of South India. Target group comprised tribal young adults (n=31) who had a parent with depression or psychosis, and comparison group comprised tribal young adults (n=30) with parents without mental illness. A subsample of participants from each group (n=5+5) was selected for a semi-structured interview. Quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using Independent Samples t-Test and Thematic Analysis respectively. Results revealed that overall resilience was not significantly different between target and comparison groups, which accepted the null hypothesis. Resilience was not significantly different between females and males, which again accepted the null hypothesis. Despite living in severe adversity tribal young adults are resilient; parental mental illness is only one among many vulnerabilities faced by them. The prevailing extrinsic and intrinsic protective factors might explain their resilience.

Talking to children about parental mental illness: The experiences of well parents

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Ballal ◽  
Janardhana Navaneetham
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Parental Mental Illness ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Mental Health Systems ◽  
The Family ◽  
Supportive Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Of Information

Background: Children of parents with mental illness are not routinely included in psychoeducational and supportive family interventions provided by adult mental health systems. The family, therefore, is an important and, sometimes, the only source of information and support for them. Aim: To understand the experiences of well parents in talking to their children about parental mental illness. Method: This article presents the findings of a qualitative study of the experiences of well parents in talking to their children about parental mental illness. Ten well parents whose spouses were diagnosed with a severe mental illness participated in the study. Socio-demographic information, family details and history of the spouse’s mental illness along with their experiences of talking to children about parental mental illness, the perceived risks and benefits, challenges they faced and the role of others in the process were recorded. Qualitative data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings: The themes of ‘distancing children from parental mental illness’, ‘avoiding conversations about the illness’, ‘giving and receiving emotional support’, ‘providing explanations of the illness’ and ‘regulating other sources of information’ show the complex ways in which well parents influence their children’s understanding of parental mental illness. The findings are examined in the background of what is known about this topic from the perspective of children or of the parent with illness. Possible ways to support well parents in families affected by parental mental illness are discussed. Conclusion: This study is a step forward in the understanding of how families talk to children about parental mental illness and provides the perspective of the well parent.

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