70 research outputs found
Preventive interventions in families with parental depression: childrenâs psychosocial symptoms and prosocial behaviour
The aim is to document the effectiveness of a preventive family intervention (Family Talk Intervention, FTI) and a brief psychoeducational discussion with parents (Letâs Talk about the Children, LT) on childrenâs psychosocial symptoms and prosocial behaviour in families with parental mood disorder, when the interventions are practiced in psychiatric services for adults in the finnish national health service. Patients with mood disorder were invited to participate with their families. Consenting families were randomized to the two intervention groups. The initial sample comprised 119 families and their children aged 8â16. Of these, 109 completed the interventions and the baseline evaluation. Mothers and fathers filled out questionnaires including standardized rating scales for childrenâs symptoms and prosocial behaviour at baseline and at 4, 10 and 18Â months post-intervention. The final sample consisted of parental reports on 149 children with 83 complete data sets. Both interventions were effective in decreasing childrenâs emotional symptoms, anxiety, and marginally hyperactivity and in improving childrenâs prosocial behaviour. The FTI was more effective than the LT on emotional symptoms particularly immediately after the intervention, while the effect of the LT emerged after a longer interval. The study supports the effectiveness of both interventions in families with depressed parents. The FTI is applicable in cultural settings other than the USA. Our findings provide support for including preventive child mental health measures as part of psychiatric services for mentally ill parents
Housing: An Under-Explored Influence on Childrenâs Well-Being and Becoming
Research on housing has tended to focus on adult outcomes, establishing relationships between housing and a number of aspects of health and well-being. Research exploring the influence of housing on children has been more limited, and has tended to focus on adult concerns around risk behaviours, behavioural problems and educational attainment. While these outcomes are important, they neglect the impact of housing on childrenâs lives beyond these concerns. There are a number of reasons to believe that housing would play an important role in childrenâs well-being more broadly. Family stress and strain models highlight how housing difficulties experienced by adults may have knock on effects for children, while Bronfenbrennerâs ecological approach to human development emphasises the importance of childrenâs experiences of their environments, of which the home is among the most important. This paper summaries the existing evidence around housing and child outcomes, predominantly educational and behavioural outcomes, and argues for the extension of this work to consider the impact of housing on childrenâs lives more broadly, especially their subjective well-being
Parental mental health problems, substance use, poverty and criminality in families â a call for policy, services and effective methods
Economic Recession and Inequality in Education: children needing special services in focus
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