PMH

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PMH Child Welfare GuidelineFamily Model
service implications

• Dorian Cole and Adrian Falkov

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Aims and Objectives

• Participants will discuss implication of the
  guidelines on local practice
• Greater understanding of what Think Child ,
  Think Parent, Think Family may mean in local
  implementation
• How to aid local implementation of the family
  model using the guidelines

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Key Recommendations

• Improving access
• Screening and assessment
• Planning, providing and reviewing care
• Workforce competence
• Strategic approach
• Implementing, evaluating, outcomes and evidence

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Crossing Bridges Key Principles

• The MH wellbeing of children adults within
  families in which an adult carer is mentally ill,
  are intimately linked in at least 4 ways
• PMI can adversely affect the development and in
  some cases the safety of children
• Growing up with a MIP can have a negative
  influence on the quality of that persons
  adjustment in adulthood, including their
  transition to parenthood
• Children, particularly those with emotional,
  behavioural or chronic physical difficulties, can
  precipitate or exacerbate mental ill health in
  their parents/carers
• Adverse circumstances (pov, single p, social
  isoln, stigma) can negatively influence both
  child parental MH

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Crossing BridgesThe Family Model
Risks, Stressors vulnerabilities
Child mh and development
Adult mental health
Parenting the parent child relationship
Protective factors, resilience resources
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