Ebook: Infants of Parents with Mental Illness : Developmental, Clinical, Cultural and Personal Perspectives
Author: Anne Sved Williams Vicki Cowling
- Tags: Children of parents with mental disabilities, Mentally ill -- Family relationships, MEDICAL -- Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Australian Academic Press
- City: Bowen Hills, Qld.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Language: English
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This book examines how to achieve improved outcomes for infants growing up in situations of risk due to parents' mental health and other related psychosocial circumstances that may impair parental functioning. These include migration, substance abuse, and infant hospitalisation. The authors examine the effects of adverse life circumstances on infant and family and, in most cases, also describe assessments and Read more...