Working with parents with mental health problems and their children

Welcome to the consultation on SCIE’s draft guidance for working with parents with mental health problems and their children. Please take time to read the guidance document before you answer the consultation questions.

• Working with parents with mental health problems and their children: Guidance for adult and children’s mental health and social care services - Final consultation draft (304kb PDF file).

You may also refer to the related research reviews which you can access by clicking on the links below. The research reviews form part of the evidence base for this guidance.

• Parental mental health and child welfare: Report of a practice survey (238kb PDF file)
• Parental mental health and child welfare: Reviews of policy and professional education (842kb PDF file)
• Research reviews on parents with mental health problems - summary (130kb PDF file)
• Parental mental health and child welfare: Review of policy - summary (106kb PDF file)
• Parental mental health and child welfare: Review of professional education - summary (96kb PDF file)
• Technical report for SCIE Research Review on the prevalence and incidence of parental mental health problems and the detection, screening and reporting of parental mental health problems (874kb PDF file)
• Technical report for SCIE Research Review on access, acceptability and outcomes of services/interventions to support parents with mental health problems and their families (1520kb PDF file)

The draft guidance

When reading the draft guidance and responding to this consultation please note that the following sections and recommendations are not included in the draft guidance but will appear in the final published web-version:

• What needs to change at a national level? – these recommendations are still under development and will form part of the 5 year strategic guidance implementation and evaluation plan that SCIE will lead in collaboration with partner agencies.
• Research recommendations
• Practice examples
• Training resources
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary of terms
• Useful resources and links

Completing the consultation

The consultation questions are grouped in 8 sections. The first 5 are the main sections and they each cover a stage of the care pathway. Sections 6 and 7 relate to the strategic approach and development of the workforce required to achieve the changes recommended in the first five sections. The final section of this consultation gives you an opportunity to comment on the overall guidance.

1. Screening
2. Assessment
3. Planning care
4. Providing care
5. Reviewing care plans
6. Strategic approach
7. Workforce development
8. Overall guidance

Each section in the guidance starts with a key, or ’summary’ recommendation.  Essentially this represents the overarching objective that the detailed recommendations in that section have been designed to achieve. 

Throughout the consultation you are asked to say whether you agree that the summary recommendation for each section will help improve outcomes for parents with mental health problems and their children. If you think they will, you are invited to give your views about the more detailed recommendations in that section. If you do not think the overall recommendation will help improve outcomes, you will be directed straight to the next section.

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