Parental mental illness can significantly impact on the lives of dependent children through both direct and indirect mechanisms. Parental factors that may impact directly on their offspring include the inherited
Parental mental health may have a significant impact on children, but many mitigating factors can help children overcome stressors.
Discover how parental mental illness impacts children’s development and learn skills and strategies to help young people affected. Understand how parental mental illness can impact child development. On this course, you’ll build a deeper understanding of the impact a parent’s mental illness can ...
No doubt exists that parents can have a profound impact on their children as they enter and navigate the period of adolescence. The challenges of parenting can be enormous, and they can be especially difficult when parents have a chronic physical or mental illness (see, e.g., Houck et al....
The impact of parental mental health difficulties on the developing child is well evidenced and documented. In this article Kate Olliver‐Kneafsey, Ev Thornton and Wendy Williamson suggest that despite the difficulties young people face when parental mental illness is a feature of family life, it ...
This study did not examine child mental health or wellbeing outcomes, but it did explore parenting skills and is able to give an insight into the impact of treating OCD on these. Although CBT was found to be a highly effective treatment for postnatal OCD, the mother-infant interactions (...
Positive effects on child understanding of mental illness, child resilience, and internalising symp- toms have been reported at post intervention and at 1.5- and 4.5-year follow-ups across the five FT evaluations [23–27]. Furthermore, there is evidence that FT may also promote the parent's...
Public health policies attempt to increase parental identification of child overweight and obesity. The objective of the present research was to determine the cross-sectional, prospective and longitudinal associations between parental identification of child overweight and child mental health problems. Methods...
Parent(s) currently attending a GP for mental illness. It should be noted that whilst children over 5 years can receive the FT intervention, data will only be collected from child participants aged 8–18 years, as the selected outcome measures are only suitable for this age group. Exclusion...
No doubt exists that parents can have a profound impact on their children as they enter and navigate the period of adolescence. The challenges of parenting can be enormous, and they can be especially difficult when parents have a chronic physical or mental illness (see, e.g., Houck et al....