A systems approach to enhance global efforts to implement family-focused mental health interventions
Publication year
2016Author(s)
Number of pages
19 p.
Source
Child & Youth Services, 37, 2, (2016), pp. 175-193ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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SW OZ BSI KLP
Journal title
Child & Youth Services
Volume
vol. 37
Issue
iss. 2
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 175
Page end
p. 193
Subject
Experimental Psychopathology and TreatmentAbstract
This paper acknowledges progress over the last 20 years in addressing intergenerational risks to the mental health of children whose parents experience mental illness (COPMI-Children of Parents with a Mental Illness and FaPMI-Families Where a Parent Has a Mental Illness) and emphasises ongoing challenges to implement evidence informed family focused interventions. Challenges include variability in practice at individual, regional, and cross-national service system levels and the gap between implementation science and practice. This article begins to address this gap with descriptions of key systems approaches and implementation strategies from around the world to illustrate variability and common themes. A multifaceted, integrated systems approach is proposed as a way forward. Learnings and experience from initiatives, expertise and evidence targeting other vulnerable groups and successful change implementation will enhance existing (COPMI/FaPMI) efforts to facilitate systems change and improve the lives and futures of these children and families around the world.
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