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  • 6 - ‘The same as they treat everybody else’

  • from Part II - Comprehensive assessment and treatment
  • 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 87-92

  • Summary

    Parents want professionals to treat them 'the same as everybody else'. They want professionals to see them as parents before they see them as patients, and for services to acknowledge their family relationships and responsibilities, and credit them with the capacity to act in their children's best interests. The 19 parents who contributed to this chapter come from four parent groups in Australia, Canada and the USA. They were approached through the coordinators of the parent groups, and asked about the need for services to respond to their needs as parent, and the way for the services to respond to the issues that affect their families and children. The chapter coordinates their responses, often reproduced verbatim. Having agreed to participate, each group met for 1.5 hours, and their responses are summarized. They reflect different experiences of interventions such as having their children removed from their care.