References & Articles

Vicki Cowling, Vrinda Edan, Rose Cuff, Paul Armitage and Dassi Herszberg, ‘Mental Health Consumer and Carer Participation in Professional Education: “Getting There Together” for Children of Parents with Mental Illness and Their Families, in Australian Social Work, Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 406-421.

Sharon Dawe, Paul Harnett and Sally Frye, Improving outcomes for children living in families with parental substance misuse: What do we know and what should we do, Child Prevention Issues No. 29, The Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2008.

Ming Wai Wan, Steff Moulton and Kathryn M. Abel, ‘A review of mother-child relational interventions and their usefulness for mothers with schizophrenia,’ Archives of Women’s Mental Health, Vol. 11, No. 3, July 2008, pp. 171-179.

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Please see the resource pages under Information for families, children and young people for resources specifically tailored to the needs of those groups.

For a compilation of Facts and Figures about families affected by mental illness, please see http://www.copmi.net.au/common/stats.html

For a list of relevant resources for workplace educators, please see http://www.copmi.net.au/jsp/resources/resource_view_workforce.jsp

For a list of relevant resources for child protection/justice workers, please see

http://www.copmi.net.au/jsp/resources/resource_view_justice.jsp

For a list of relevant resources for health and community workers, please see

http://www.copmi.net.au/jsp/resources/resource_view_community.jsp

For a list of relevant resources for teachers, please see

http://www.copmi.net.au/jsp/resources/resource_view_teachers.jsp

Reports

Jonathan Pietsch and Liz Short, Working Together: Families in which a parent has a mental illness: developing ‘best practice’ for service provision and interagency collaboration, Mental Health Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, September 1996.

Rosemary Cuff and Jonathan Pietsch, Peer Support: For children of parents with mental illness, Mental Health Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, December 1997.

Rose Cuff and Helen Mildred, Parents in Partnerships… Developing services to better meet the needs of parents who have a mental illness (Project Report and Resource Guide), Maroondah Hospital Area Mental Health Service, Melbourne, Australia, December 1998.

Rosemarie Curtis and Wendy Fromhold, Keeping Kidz in Mind: Children who have a parent with a mental illness, developing a model for best practice within adult mental health services, South West Area Mental Health Service, Melbourne, Australia, September 1997.

Sabin Fernbacher, Angela Obradovic and Michelle Wines, Parents and Childrens Group 2004 Evaluation Report, Northern Area Mental Health, 2004.

Kate Morris et al, Think Family: A Literature Review of Whole Family Approaches, Cabinet Office Social Exclusion Taskforce, UK, January 2008.

Hargreaves, J, O’Brien, M, Bond, L, Forer, D, Basile, A, Davies, L, & Patton, G, Paying Attention to Self PATS: an evaluation of the PATS program for young people who have a parent with a mental illness, Centre for Adolescent Health, Melbourne, 2005.

David Maybery, Andrea Reupert, and Melinda Goodyear, Evaluation of a model of best practice for families who have a parent with a mental illness, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 2006. (VicChamps final report)

Related Policies

Commonwealth of Australia (2000) National action plan for promotion, prevention and early intervention for mental health, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care 2000, Canberra.

Commonwealth of Australia Department fo Health and Ageing (April 2004) Principles and actions for services and people working with children of parents with a mental illness (AICAFMHA), www.copmi.net.au/files/principles and actions_final.pdf

Victorian Government Department of Human Services (2005) Protecting children … the next steps ‘White Paper’, www.dhs.vic.gov.au/protectingchildren

Victorian Government Department of Premier and Cabinet (2005) A Fairer Victoria – progress and next steps, www.health.vic.gov.au

Victorian Government Department of Human Services, Mental Health Branch (2006) Caring Together – an action plan for carer involvement in Victorian mental health services, www.health.vic.gov.au

Victorian Government Department of Human Services, Mental Health Branch (2005) Chief Psychiatrist’s Guidelines: Working together with families and carers, http://www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth/cpg/families.pdf

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