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Parental Mental Health and Its Impact on Children
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This publication presents the key findings of the literature review, Parental mental health and its impact on children, prepared by the Department of Community Services Centre for Parenting and Research. It describes factors associated with vulnerability and resilience, potential impacts on children and young people, adverse outcomes in relation to specific mental health disorders, and early intervention programs. |
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August 2008 |
Parental Substance Use & the Child Welfare System
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Factsheet provides an overview of issues faced by families affected by parental substance use who enter the child welfare system, and examines both service barriers and innovative approaches that child welfare agencies have developed to meet their needs. |
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January 2009 |
Parenting a Transgender or Gender-Expansive Child: How to Protect Your Family Against False Allegations of Child Abuse
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Parents raising transgender and gender-expansive children must take additional steps that they could not have anticipated when their child was first born. These parents must also prepare their child and family to cope with the possibility of negative reactions, based on fear or misinformation, to their child’s gender and the family’s decision to love and affirm their child for who they are. |
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Parents with Mental Health Issues: Consequences for Children & Effectiveness of Interventions Designed to Assist Children & their Families
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Dr. Leone Huntsman |
Reviews research on the consequences for children of having a parent with mental health issues, and the effectiveness of strategies and interventions designed to support affected families. |
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November 2008 |
Parents with Mental Illness & Implementation of ASFA
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B.J Friesen, J. Nicholson, K. Kaplan, & S. Solomon |
This paper examines how implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) may affect families in which a parent has a mental illness. It presents evidence that such parents may suffer discrimination when the psychiatric diagnosis alone leads to an assumption of risk in lieu of a more complete assessment of a parent’s behavior or parental competence. |
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2009 |
Parents’ Guide for Helping Children in the Wake of Disaster
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Provides advice for parents on how to recognize traumatic symptoms in their children, and how to communicate with them to assist them with the healing process. |
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2005 |
Partnering with Child Welfare to Promote Safely, Permanency, & Well-Being
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Helfgott, K. P. |
PowerPoint |
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May 2008 |
Partnering with Your Child’s School: A Guide for Parents
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Provides parents of children with physical or mental health challenges suggestions for how to develop a partnership with their children’s school. |
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2007 |
Partnering with Your Child’s School: A Guide for Parents (Spanish Version)
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Provides parents of children with physical or mental health challenges suggestions for how to develop a partnership with their children’s school. |
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2007 |
Peer Support Program: Methods for Helping Residential Youth Connect with Peers
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Brian C. Kovach, M.A. |
This paper proposes that a program designed to help residential youth recognize and develop ways to support peers
may help promote a sense of personal empowerment and create a positive, supportive
treatment environment. |
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July 2012 |
Peer Support in Adult Mental Health Services:
A Metasynthesis of Qualitative Findings
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Gill Walker and Wendy Bryant |
This study aimed to synthesize findings from several quantitative reviews on the effectiveness of peer support. |
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2013 |
Peer-Centered Practice: A
Theoretical Framework for
Intervention with Young People
in and from Care
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Kim Snow and Varda Mann-Feder |
This paper puts forward a conceptual framework
for engaging peers as central to transitional
services for care-leavers. |
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People Recover
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Tells the story of individuals who are dealing with co-occurring (substance abuse and mental health) disorders through a comic book. |
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2013 |
Permanency Planning Today: Family Engagement
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This issue of Permanency Planning Today focuses on family engagement, and features articles on: Familyconnect guides to assist with family visits, the intersection of migration and child welfare, the use of practice models, Texas Child Protective Services’ work on addressing racial disproportionality, and New Mexico’s use of icebreakers between foster parents and birth parents. |
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Spring 2009 |
Pharmacologic Guidelines for Treating Individuals with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Co-Occurring Opioid Use Disorders
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Offers guidance for treating individuals who have post-traumatic stress disorder and also have opioid use disorders. |
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2012 |
Physical Punishment: What Parents Should Know
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Provides facts on the negative impact of physical punishment and introduces effective alternatives to physical discipline. |
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2009 |
Planned and Crisis Respite for Families with Children:
Results of a Collaborative Study
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Susan Dougherty
with Elisabeth Yu
Maggie Edgar
Pamela Day
and Casandra Wade |
This report describes the survey’s findings; documents
approaches to funding, administering, and delivering planned and crisis respite services to
families, as described in the case studies; and makes preliminary recommendations on expanding
and enhancing these services to support families and caregivers nationwide |
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Planning for a meeting about your child’s behavior needs
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Prepares parents of children with behavioral needs for individualized meetings about their child’s behavior. |
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2007 |
Playground Heroes
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Ken Rigby, Bruce Johnson |
Examines the reasons why anti-bullying programs have not been successful, and suggests improvements. |
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April 2010 |
Policies & Procedures for Home & Community Based Services for Children
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The Child, Adolescent, & Family Unit of the Vermont Dept. of Developmental & Mental Health Services |
Title XIX Medicaid Waiver. |
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July 2005 |
Policy Brief - Advancing Equity in Behavioral Health Through Telemedicine
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Vanderploeg, J., & Freeburg, T., Lang. J., Sovronsky, H., Moroy- Smith, A., Hoffman, P. |
The COVID pandemic helped demonstrate that telemedicine promotes access to health services and improves equity among socioeconomically, racially, and ethnically diverse families. Research has also shown that telemedicine is generally as effective as in-person psychotherapy.
This policy brief was jointly authored by staff from CHDI, the Village for Families and Children, Connecticut Children's, and Yale New Haven Health Center/Yale Medicine and includes four recommendations to support the long-term effectiveness of telemedicine services for children and families. |
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April 2021 |
Policy Review and Development Guide: Lebian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Persons in Custodial Settings
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Brenda Smiht, Melissa Loomis, Jaime Yarussi, Jody Marksamer |
This guide is a first step in reaching out to correctional agencies to help them identify, address, and respond to abuse of LGBTI individuals through agency policies and procedures. |
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August 2013 |
Position Statement: LGBT Youth
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Identifies the position of the NASP and explains responsibilities of school psychologists in serving LGBT youth. |
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2011 |
Post-Adoption Services: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children Adopted From Foster Care
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This report describes strategies for expanding and improving post-adoption mental health services for adopted children and their families. |
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July 2007 |
Potential Early Childhood Communities Outcome Measures
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Stacey Friedman |
Potential Early Childhood Communities Outcome Measures. |
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April 2006 |