Table of Contents

Content Includes: Introduction/Editorial - Marie Diggins Guest editorial - Adrian Falkov Personal experiences 1) Messages for practice from Liverpool Barnardos Action with Young Carers Project Authors: Young Carers 2) Monica's Story Author: Monica Kizza - survivor/parent 3) A Psychiatrist's perspective Author: Eleni Palazidou 4) A personal reflection on working with parents with mental ill-health. Obstacles and opportunities for delivering best practice. Author: Dr Joanna Fox 5) Using the Family Model in Training - Light bulb moment Author: Daphne McKenna Policy and drivers for change 1) Do recent policy and legislative changes in health and social care help develop the Think Family agenda in parental mental health and child welfare? Author: Hugh Constant - SCIE 2) The requirement to implement whole family thinking and working in response to the Care Act and Children and Families Act Author: Moira Fraser, Director of Policy and Research - Carers Trust 3) 'Think Family' policy and practice - focus on 'whole family' interventions as a driver for change Author: Dr. Jerry Tew - Head of Education and Reader in Mental Health and Social Work University of Birmingham Engaging families/Early intervention and prevention 1) Children should be seen and heard in Adult Mental Health Services Authors: Ragni Whitlock and Estelle Rapsey - Clinical Lead systemic Therapy and Family Inclusive practice, Somerset partnership Foundation Trust 2) Early intervention to promote mental health/wellbeing in schools Authors: Jane Akister and Hannah Saville 3) School children's vulnerability audit tool Author: Wendy Weal - Director of Interface Enterprises Impacts and influences on mental health recovery, parenting and children's development and wellbeing 1) Young carers - Caring is just one outcome for children what about other aspects of children's lives Author: Jo Aldridge - Loughborough Young Carers Unit 2) Fathers, mental illness and stigma Andrea Reupert and Rhys Price-Robertson - Monash University, Australia Conceptual models - How we think and operate in parental mental health and child welfare work: Learning from success 1) Learning from Success: Conceptual Introduction Author: Shula Ramon - Anglia Ruskin and Hertfordshire Universities 2) What works - Learning from success in parental mental health and child welfare work: multiple perspectives (family and practitioners/managers) about what constitutes success and what leads to it. Author: Marie Diggins 3) Learning from Success: in Child Protection Author: Andy Quin - Social Worker/Researcher Anglia Ruskin University Family Model 1) The Family Model Author: Adrian Falkov Assessment and interventions 1) Emotional neglect, Systems Failure, and the Early Years Parenting Unit Minna Daum and Duncan McLean - Anna Freud Centre 2) Mental health social work - what it has to offer parents, children and families and its multi-agency colleagues Ruth Allen Working together 1) Co-working with families Frank Burbach - Somerset 2) Keeping The Family In Mind in Liverpool Authors: various from LA, and Trust 3) Think Family Northern Ireland Mary Donaghy

About the Author

Dr Marie Diggins Marie has enjoyed a long career in social work, multi-disciplinary mental health services management, research and practice development. Marie has been a registered social worker for 25 years. After qualifying in 1989 Marie worked for the London Borough of Lewisham and South London and Maudsley Mental Health NHS Trust until 2002. During this period Marie held a variety of positions including; generic social worker, specialist mental health practitioner and between 1995 to 2002 mental health integrated services manager. She is an experienced trainer and has co-trained alongside parents, children and other professionals. In 2002 Marie joined the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) as a practice development manager progressing to senior practice development in 2007. Marie worked with key stakeholders (government departments, health and social care staff, academics and service users and carers) to identify innovative approaches to embedding evidence about what works in health and social care in different practice settings. She made particular contributions to SCIE's mental health strategy and resources. These include Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare. This Guide was first published in 2009 and has continued to be of relevance for both policy and practice development. Marie led the development of SCIE's regional profile. She was involved with SCIE's digital production since its inception in 2007 and is experienced in the development of content for eLearning, film and other digital products. Marie contributed to Integration step by step, SCIE's digital resource to support integrated working, drawing on her understanding of practice development, practice contexts and multi-disciplinary working environments. Marie has extensive experience in practice analysis and research including gathering and analysing diverse stakeholder perspectives. Her Phd 'What works: Researching success in parental mental health and child welfare work' (Anglia Ruskin University, 2014) focuses on different perspectives of success and identifying the contributions that parents, children and the different professionals working with them (social workers, mental health workers, teachers) make to promote child and family resilience. Marie left SCIE in 2014 and is now working independently as a part-time freelance consultant. Education and Training Ph.D, Anglia Ruskin University, Title "What works": Researching success in parental mental heath and child welfare work (2008-2014) MSc in Social Work, London South Bank University (1995) Post Graduate Diploma: Innovation in Mental Health Work, London School of Economics and Political Science (1993) Certificate and Qualification for Social Work (CQSW), Croydon College (1989) Diploma in Applied Social Science, Croydon College (1989). Contributors Monica Kizza Survivor/parent Adrian Falkov Director Redbank House child adolescent and family mental health service and senior staff specialist Westmead Hospital Paul Ross Senior Information Specialist, Social Care Institute for Excellence Louise Wardale Keeping the Family in Mind Coordinator, Barnardo's Action with Young Carers Liverpool Carol Bernard Director of Commissioning, Merseycare, NHS Trust Hugh Constant Practice Development Manager, The Social Care Institute for Excellence Professor Jo Aldridge Director of the Young Carers Research Group, Loughborough University Professor Nicky Stanley School of Social Work - University of Central Lancashire Professor Shula Ramon Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Hertfordshire Andy Quin Social Work Consultant and PhD Researcher, Anglia Ruskin University Dr Joanna Fox Senior Lecturer Education and Social Care Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education Anglia Ruskin University Dr. Jane Akister Reader in Social Work Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education Anglia Ruskin University Hannah Saville MA Student Anglia Ruskin University Moira Fraser Director of Policy and Research, Carers Trust Minna Daum Senior Family Therapist Co-Manager, Specialist Assessment and Treatment Services Co-Project lead, Early Years Parenting Unit Dr Duncan Mclean Consultant Psychiatrist Co-Manager, Specialist Assessment and Treatment Services Co-Project Lead, Early Years Parenting Unit, Anna Freud Centre Professor Eleni Palazidou MD Phd MRCP FRCPSYCH Professor/Consultant Psychiatrist St George's University, and Medical School, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, Barts & London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University and The Sloane Court Clinic Wendy Weal Managing Director Interface Enterprises Dr Jerry Tew Reader in Mental Health and Social Work and Head of Education and Leader of the New Family Potential Centre, Birmingham University Mary Donaghy Social Care Commissioning Lead, Mental Health & Learning Disability, HSC Board, Northern Ireland Daphne McKenna Director at Training in Practice Ltd Associate Professor Andrea Reupert Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia Rhys Price-Robertson PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia Dr Frank Burbach Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Ragni Whitlock Clinical Lead Systemic Therapy and Family Inclusive practice, Somerset partnership Foundation Trust Dr Estelle Rapsey Clinical Psychologist, Somerset partnership Foundation Trust Ruth Allen Director of Social Work and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, South west London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust and St George's University of London.