Children of Parents With Mental Illness: Personal and Clinical Perspectives (v. 2)

Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
Acknowledgements......Page 21
1 Alice......Page 23
Genetics: scientific, social and ethical issues......Page 25
2 Understanding and explaining the genetics of mental illness......Page 27
Early years to adolescence......Page 37
3 Infants of mothers with mental illness......Page 39
4 Talking with children whose parents experience mental illness......Page 63
5 On adolescence and having a parent with mental illness......Page 79
Personal accounts......Page 95
6 Miriam’s story......Page 97
7 Finding beauty......Page 101
8 In a daughter’s voice......Page 107
A psychoanalytic perspective......Page 121
9 Who am I? ‘Madness’, my favourite pop group, split up a long time ago......Page 123
Children away from home......Page 139
10 Listening to the child and structuring a future for children placed in out-ofhome care who have a parent with a mental health......Page 141
11 Permanent placement of children of parents with mental illness......Page 153
12 Issues relating to long-term, out-of-home care for children of parents with mental illness......Page 171
Cultural considerations......Page 187
13 Cultural considerations in understanding parents with mental illness and their children*......Page 189
You’re not alone— peer support......Page 213
14 Peer support activities for children and young people who have a family member with mental illness......Page 215
A moral loophole......Page 233
15 How we fail to care for children of mentally ill parents......Page 235
Appendix 1......Page 255
Resources......Page 259
Index......Page 263