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SANE Australia
SANE Australia'SANE Australia is a national charity helping all Australians affected by mental illness lead a better life – through support, training, and education. SANE conducts innovative programs and campaigns to improve the lives of people living with mental illness, their family and friends. -
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SANE facts and guides
SANE Australia'Authoritative, high-quality materials well-regarded by medical professionals and members of the community alike. Each topic has a range of materials that can be read, watched, listened to or downloaded for later.' -
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Young Carers SA
Young Carers SAThe Carers SA website offers this section of their website to young carers under 25 years '...who provide care and support for a parent, partner, child, sibling, relative or friend who has a disability, is frail aged, or who has a severe mental or physical condition.' -
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Parental mental illness: the impact on children and adolescents
The Royal College of Psychiatrists , UK'This is one in a series of leaflets for parents, teachers and young people entitled Mental Health and Growing Up. This leaflet provides information on the problems encountered by children who have a parent with a mental illness, and gives some practical advice as to how to deal with these problems.' -
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Research in Practice – Supporting evidence-informed practice with children and families
Dartington Hall TrustResearch in Practices' mission has been to champion evidence-informed practice in children’s services. -
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ReachOut.com
ReachOutReachOut.com is Australia’s leading online mental health service for young people, providing practical support to help them get through everything from everyday issues to tough times. -
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Puerperal psychosis – A carer’s survival guide
Craig Allatt'A booklet providing excellent information for partners of women with puerperal psychosis, written by a carer who has lived through this experience. -
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Protecting Children is Everyone’s Business: National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children (2009-2020)
Commonwealth of Australia - Council of Australian Governments.The National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020 (the National Framework), endorsed by the Council of Australian Governments in April 2009, is an ambitious, long-term approach to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of Australia’s children and aims to deliver a substantial and sustained reduction in levels of child abuse and neglect over time. -
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Principles and Actions for Services and People Working with Children of Parents with a Mental Illness
Emerging MindsThis key document provides guidance for both organisations and individuals across a wide range of jurisdictions. It is the culmination of an extensive review of the literature and of consultations with parents who have a mental illness, their carers and children, service providers and experts. -
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Preventive interventions in families with parental depression: children’s psychosocial symptoms and prosocial behaviour
Tytti Solantaus, E. Juulia Paavonen, Sini Toikka, Raija-Leena Punamaki'The aim is to document the effectiveness of a preventive family intervention (Family Talk Intervention, FTI) and a brief psychoeducational discussion with parents (Let’s Talk about the Children, LT) on children’s psychosocial symptoms and prosocial behaviour in families with parental mood disorder, when the interventions are practiced in psychiatric services for adults in the finnish national health service.' (Abstract excerpt) -
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Piecing The Puzzle Together: Raising young people when mental illness is part of your life
The COPMI national initiativeThis booklet is for parents living with a mental health problem or mental illness, whose children are aged between 2 and 7 years. It's also for partners, family and friends. -
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Parents as patients: Supporting the needs of patients who are parents and their children
The Royal College of Psychiatrists , UKIn 1999, a College Working Party was established to consider the issues posed by 'the patient as parent' and the implications for children whose parents experience mental disorders.