#Kim eng age series#

Adult orientated services should identify parenting status, engage with clients in their parenting role and responsibilities, engage with clientsвЂ™ children to identify, and respond appropriately to their needs and/or initiate and coordinate agency referrals for children.Child and adolescent-orientated services need to ask whether parents of clients have mental health concerns, ascertain the impact of the parentвЂ™s illness on the child, engage with parents to identify, and respond to, their needs and/or initiate and coordinate agency referrals for them.The key recommendations outlined in the position paper, which was recently published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, include: Accordingly, weвЂ™ve outlined a number of recommendations for practice, organisational and systems change to enable this,вЂќ said Professor Reupert. We believe a major service reorientation is required to better meet the needs of these vulnerable children and their families. вЂњCurrently the delivery of evidence-based interventions to support these children have been limited by a lack of adequate support structures. Professor Andrea Reupert, from the School of Educational Psychology and Counselling in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, says children whose parents have mental illnesses are among the most vulnerable in our communities. The team of researchers have found that due to a range of factors, children whose parent/s have a mental illness are at risk for their own mental health problems and recommend that mental health services deliver support for the whole family and not only to individuals.Д¬hildren whose parents have mental illness are between two to 13 times more likely to develop a mental illness themselves, to be less school-ready, to present with higher rates of physical injury, more likely to be taken into care, and more likely to develop health conditions such as asthma.

#Kim eng age series#

An international group of researchers led by Monash University have developed a series of principles and recommendations to assist children whose parents are living with a mental illness.