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  • 22 - Family therapy when a parent suffers from psychiatric disorder

  • from Part V - Child-sensitive therapeutic interventions
  • Edited by Michael Göpfert, Webb House Democratic Therapeutic Community, Crewe, Jeni Webster, 5 Boroughs Partnership, Warrington, Mary V. Seeman, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Parental Psychiatric Disorder
    Published online:
    09 August 2009
    Print publication:
    13 May 2004, pp 306-322

  • Summary

    This chapter identifies the need to work with the family, the family to be worked with, the relevant approaches to treatment, and the goals of treatment. It has been shown that the ways in which a child construes the parent's illness can have a significant effect on the child's own psychological health. The chapter is concerned with the way to help the child and parents develop a more positive working understanding of the parent's illness. This includes helping the parents to re-establish some working authority, so that a more 'parental' voice of the parent can be heard, as illustrated in the examples of Irma and Chrysoulla. The chapter also includes reports of two initiatives which can very usefully and easily be implemented by any mental health service provider: The Mental Health Matters workshops, and the equivalent workshops for families with children.