Resources - Research

• Black parenting - Beyond Father Absence: An Investigation into Black Fathering and Child Outcomes in Britain. Dr Jeune Alyson Guishard-Pine. Follow route to researsch section once on website.
• Building Bridges Model - Evaluation
  Jenny Morris, Family Welfare Association, July 2007, Summary here
• Mentally Ill Parents and Children's Welfare NSPCC (2002)
• Parental Mental Health Problems: Key Messages from Research, Policy and Practice Tunnard J (Research in Practice)
• Parenting in Poor Environments, a research study focussing on the issue of parental stress, by Policy Research Bureau, 2002.
• SCIE Research Briefing 23: Stress and Resilience Factors in parents with mental health problems and their children. This briefing focuses on factors contributing to either stress or resilience in families where one or both parents have mental health problems. It considers the position of parents and children focusing upon issues of stress or resilience arising from individual and ‘informal’ sources. While recognising the role that services have in mediating either stress or resilience, the briefing does not consider service interventions or evaluations, as these are the subject of a SCIE systematic review to be published separately. Published March 2008.
• SCIE Research Briefing 25 - Children and Young People's Experiences of domestic violence involving adults in a parenting role
• Stress and resilience factors in parents with mental health problems and their children. This SCIE briefing focuses on factors contributing to either stress or resilience in families where one or both parents have mental health problems. It considers the position of parents and children focusing upon issues of stress or resilience arising from individual and ‘informal’ sources. By Lester Parrott, Gaby Jacobs and Diane Roberts. March 2008.
• Supporting Parents: messages from research, by David Quinton, Research in Practice, 2004.
• Troubled Lives - Psychiatric morbidity in children living with psychotic parents, Department of Child and Family Psychiatry. Falkov, A. (1995), London:UMDS & West Lambeth
• The health and wellbeing of young carers: Research Briefing 11 (SCIE)

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