Supporting Children when Parents Separate : Embedding a Crisis Intervention Approach within Family Justice, Education and Mental Health Policy /
"After years of research and reflection on the work of the interdisciplinary family justice system Mervyn Murch offers a fresh approach to supporting the thousands of children every year who experience a complex form of bereavement following parental separation and divorce. This stressful famil...
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2018.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; SUPPORTING CHILDREN WHEN PARENTS SEPARATE; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I . Illuminating the field of policy; Introduction to Part I: Some key background data; 1. Setting out the stall; Introduction; 2. Numbers, scale and trends; Introduction; Fluctuating divorce rates and the increase in cohabitation; Statistical problems concerning the number of children involved in private law litigation involving contact and residence orders; 3. Summarised research reviews upon which to promote social and emotional wellbeing in children of separated parents; Introduction
- Useful research reviewsThe use of terms and definitions; Risk factors; Protective factors; The impact of interparental conflict on children's academic attainment; Findings from child and family developmental psychology; Disruption to the policy-making process under the coalition government; 4. Hearing the voice of the child: messages from research that expose gaps between theory, principle and reality; Introduction; The voice of the child in family justice; The child's right to be heard when administrative and legal decisions are taken: a summary of the law
- Messages from socio-legal researchPart II. Primary prevention; Introduction to Part II: Children dealing with the crisis of parental separation: towards new supportive practice and policy; 6. The crisis model of preventive mental health and its potential application for support services for children coping with parental separation; Introduction; An outline of the concept: the crisis model of mental health; Post-war development of the conceptual building blocks; Simultaneous crises: 'double and triple whammies'; Five key stages of crisis resolution
- Crisis intervention: a preventive community mental health approachCrisis intervention: adjusting the approach to stages in the crisis resolution process; Support from natural caregivers; Support from school friends; The techniques of crisis intervention: the role of the passage agent; 7. The pros and cons of the preventive mental health approach; Introduction; Obstacles hindering the preventive crisis intervention approach; The case for the early intervention preventive approach; 8. Providing short-term primary preventive crisis intervention for children in schools; Introduction
- Why focus on primary prevention in schools?A brief outline of the broader picture of schools' promotion of children's social and emotional wellbeing; A summary of policy concerning the development of mental health provision in schools 2010-16: a story of damage limitation?; 2017: Prime Minister Theresa May
- what prospects for much needed reform?; Weaving the primary preventive Caplanian model of crisis intervention into a whole school wellbeing programme: a challenge to innovate; Part III . Secondary prevention