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Children Caring for Parents with Mental Illness: Perspectives of Young Carers, Parents and Professionals [Paperback]

Jo Aldridge (Author), Saul Becker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Policy Press (21 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 186134399X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861343994
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"This is an important study that sees children not as passive recipients of care but as active in the social world. Academics, students, policy makers and those working with children will learn much from this book." Pam Foley, School of Health and Social Welfare, Open University

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Little is known about the experiences of children living in families affected by severe and enduring mental illness. This is the first in-depth study of children and young people caring for parents affected in this way. Drawing on primary research data collected from 40 families, the book presents the perspectives of children (young carers), their parents and the key professionals in contact with them. "Children caring for parents with mental illness" makes a valuable contribution to the growing evidence base on parental mental illness and outcomes for children. It: is a research-based text to examine the experiences and needs of children caring for parents with severe mental illness; provides the perspectives of children, parents and key professionals in contact with these families; reviews existing medical, social, child protection and young carers literatures on parental mental illness and consequences for children; provides a chronology and guide to relevant law and policy affecting young carers and parents with severe mental illness; makes concrete recommendations and suggestions for improving policy and professional practice; and contributes to the growing evidence base on parental mental illness and outcomes for children and families. The book will be of specific interest to policy makers and practitioners in social work and social care; medicine, health care and nursing; community mental health care; children's services - including young carers workers and child protection. It will be valuable to undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking modules on mental health, community care, informal care, the sociology of childhood and children's rights - including students undertaking professional training courses in social work, child care, nursing, community mental health and psychiatry.
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What is the first step we must take in order to fully understand the impact of parental mental ill health on children, and to consider the potential consequences for children who, by choice or election (see Aldridge and Becker, 1993a), undertake caring responsibilities for their parents? Read the first page
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Aldridge and Becker's book makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of children caring for mentally ill parents, suggesting that the literature on parental mental health is influenced by an overly negative view of mental illness. It challenges the fatalism of earlier research that focused on individual pathology, poor prognosis and inevitably deleterious effects on children.

Taking a broader, psychosocial, family-orientated approach, this book emphasises that most mentally ill parents do not maltreat their children. There is a risk of 'parentification' of children, but caring can also cement the child-parent relationship. Moreover, parental mental health problems, of themselves present little risk of significant harm to children, unless these problems coexist with family disharmony - another strong argument for offering family interventions.

Children are either "seen or not heard" or subject to a knee-jerk response from social services, based on misconceptions about dangerousness. One childcare social worker admitted that, because their focus is on children, they are "not very kind to parents with mental health problems." The authors dispel the myth, expounded by earlier researchers that parental mental illness 'inevitably' leads to emotional and psychological abuse of children. Families must be considered on a case by case basis and assessments based on family observation, not assumptions. Much depends on the skills and discretion of individual practitioners in implementing children's and carers' policy at 'street-level'.

There are frightened accounts of young carers' impressions of inpatient care, one describing the ward as a 'wacko room'. Services must do more to make facilities child- and family-friendly. More widely, practitioners need to assess and work with whole families. Children and parents should be seen, heard and helped. With its critique of earlier literature, its new evidence and its useful overview of law and policy, this important book needs to be widely read and translated into practice.

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