The Family Model: Managing the impact of parental mental health on children A manual for clinicians and managers

The Family Model: Managing the impact of parental mental health on children

Author:	Adrian Falkov
Format:	Handbook (approx 200pp)
ISBN:	978 1 908066 61 9

Price: £35.00

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Description

The Family Model was a core component of the Crossing Bridges programme, and its aim was to aid a greater understanding of the complex interplay between mental ill health in parents, the development and mental health of their children, and the relationships within family units affected by mental ill health.

The model has proved extremely durable, and in this handbook the Family Model has been extensively revised and refined in the light of developments in the field over the last 10 years. Many features have been retained whilst enhancements have been added to ensure contemporary relevance in an ever-growing field. This enhanced Family Model provides the conceptual framework to support clinical approaches to family focused practice.

Additional principles have been added, including a service dimension to ensure that service provision is explicitly incorporated into thinking and practice, and a culture and community component to ensure that broader factors influencing individuals and impacting on family life are also addressed.

The handbook comes with a fully interactive CD-rom to aid a greater understanding of the Family Model and to explain in a visually engaging way the principles of this approach to working with families affected by mental ill health.

Content:

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Overview: breadth, burden, barriers and benefits
Chapter 3 - Conceptual approaches
Chapter 4 - The Family Model: introduction
Chapter 5 - The Family Model – Individual domains
Chapter 6 - The Family Model: relationships and linkages between key domains
Chapter 7 - The Family Model: approaches to practice
Chapter 8 - Services and systems organisational frameworks
Chapter 9 - Prevention and early intervention: achieving family-focused mental health services
Chapter 10 - Conclusions: challenging the status quo

Vital information for: Clinicians; voluntary sector workers; policy makers and managers and trainers in mental health and children’s services.

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"We are very pleased to see the launch of The Family Model handbook. SCIE has used the principles underpinning the Family Model in a number of our resources and training materials about parental mental health. We believe it provides an excellent conceptual framework in which to think about, explain and understand the interconnected relationships between different family members and the context in which they live, including their access to services and support."

SCIE, Social Care Institute for Excellence's