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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455300203321

Autore

Williams Anne Sved

Titolo

Infants of Parents with Mental Illness [[electronic resource] ] : Developmental, Clinical, Cultural, and Personal Perspectives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bowen Hills, : Australian Academic Press, 2008

ISBN

1-921513-15-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CowlingVicki

Disciplina

362.20854

Soggetti

Child of Impaired Parents - psychology

Infant Welfare

Child Welfare

Mental Disorders - psychology

Mental Health Services

Parent-Child Relations

Child

Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Foreword; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Increasing Knowledge, Increasing Hope for Infants?; SECTION 1 - In the Beginning ...; Chapter 2: 9 Months and More; Chapter 3: Perinatal Anxiety and Depression: Issues, Outcomes and Interventions; SECTION 2 - Assessing the Situation; Chapter 4: More Than a Question of Safety: Assessing Attachment Disorganisation and Protective Capacity in High-Risk Parent-Infant Dyads; Chapter 5: High-Risk Infant Assessments: The Child Protection Perspective; SECTION 3 - Fathers; Chapter 6: '... Get Yourself Someone To Talk To'

Chapter 7: Fathers: Bringing Them Into the PictureSECTION 4 - Personal Perspectives; Chapter 8: '... No Question'; Chapter 9: Thru Innocent Eyes; Chapter 10: A Sibling's Story From 3 to 7 Years of Age; Chapter 11: Raising Sam; SECTION 5 - Political and Cultural Influences; Chapter 12: Children Are Our Future: Understanding the Needs of Aboriginal Children and Their Families; Chapter 13: Infants in Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Families; SECTION 6 - Working With Infants and Their



Parents With Specific Disorders

Chapter 14: Mummy Has an Illness Called Schizophrenia: Thinking With Infants and Their Parents With Mental IllnessChapter 15: Working With Severely Mentally Ill Mothers and Their Infants in a Mother-Baby Inpatient Unit; Chapter 16: Infants of Parents Who Misuse Drugs; Chapter 17: Trauma and Ghosts in the Nursery: Parenting and Borderline Personality Disorder; SECTION 7 - Working With Infants and Their Families in Particular Settings; Chapter 18: Sick Babies and Troubled Parents: Therapeutic Work With Parents and Infants in a Paediatric Hospital Setting: The Baby is The Subject

Chapter 19: Childcare: A 'Holding Environment' Supporting Infants and Their Parents With Mental Illness and Emotional DifficultiesContributors; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how to achieve improved outcomes for infants growing up in situations of risk due to parents' mental health and other related psychosocial circumstances that may impair parental functioning. These include migration, substance abuse, and infant hospitalisation. The authors examine the effects of adverse life circumstances on infant and family and, in most cases, also describe assessments and interventions. Several chapters have been written by people personally affected by mental illness, or mental illness of a family member.