Facilitating Parents' Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Helplessness to Hope

Jenny Brown (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

191 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-1748-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores parents’ experiences of their child’s treatment in an adolescent mental health services in Sydney, Australia. It represents the incisive narratives of parents of a chronically struggling child. Such parent groups are under-consulted in the field, and yet their experiences provide clinicians with effective ways to engage them as a resource for the child’s recovery. The author draws on her research and vast experience in the field to map out how program managers and clinicians can involve parents as a valued part of the child’s treatment. Readers are taken on a very personal journey with parents through their help-seeking efforts, their hopes for treatment, their varied experiences of involvement and the impact of these experience six months following their children’s treatment.

Dr Jenny Brown is Director Emeritus at the Family Systems Institute and founder and Director of the Family Systems Practice and Parent Hope Project in Sydney, Australia. Her academic qualifications are from the University of Sydney (medical social work prize) and Columbia University (Deans award). Her PhD research (Social Science UNSW) explored parents’ experience of their child’s mental health treatment, forming this book’s basis. She is a clinical member and supervisor for the Australian Association of Family Therapy and, in 2018, received the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANJFT) award for distinguished contribution to family therapy in Australia. In 2022, she received the annual research award from the Bowen Centre for the Study of the Family in Washington DC. As well as publishing several articles in peer-reviewed journals about child and family mental health, she has written and edited books, including Growing Yourself Up (2012).

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-5275-1748-9 / 1527517489
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-1748-6 / 9781527517486
Zustand	Neuware