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JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 784-791Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01456.x
Keywords
children of parents with a mental illness; parental mental illness; workforce capacity
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Many consumers of psychiatric services are parents, making these services the opportunistic point for supporting consumers' children. While evidence suggests that assisting such children improves their mental health, there is a large gulf between what psychiatric services should (or could) provide and what they do in practice. This paper summarizes the constraining barriers and issues for the psychiatric workforce according to: (1) policy and management; (2) interagency collaboration; (3) worker attitude, skill and knowledge; (4) the parent-consumer; and (5) the consumer's family, including children. Potential solutions are presented, with a particular focus on the hierarchical nature of these barriers. Recommendations are made, including organizational audits to identify the most pressing barriers that impede family sensitive practice.
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