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Parent-infant psychotherapy for sleep problems: Through the night
No full textSleep problems are among the most common, urgent and undermining troubles parents meet. This book describes Dilys Daws' pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems, honed over 40 years of work with families: brief psychoanalytic therapy with parents and infants together.
Offering tried and tested ways of helping parents work things out better with their babies when such problems arise, this new edition of Dilys Daws’ classic work, updated with expert help from Sarah Sutton, frees professionals from the burden of feeling they need to rush to give advice to families, showing instead how to begin the challenging journey of discovering new emotions that every baby brings. It sheds light on the sleep problem in the context of a whole range of aspects of the early world: the regulation of babies’ physiological states; dreams and nightmares; the development of separateness; separation and attachment problems; and connections with feeding and weaning.
This much-needed, compassionate and well-informed guide to helping parents and babies with sleep problems draws on twenty-first century development research and rich clinical wisdom to offer ways of understanding sleep problems in each individual family context, with all its particular pressures and possibilities. It will be treasured by new parents struggling with sleeplessness and is enormously valuable for anyone working with parents and their babies
Ways of working during the COVID-19 crisis
Get PDFWe wrote this blog as an immediate response when COVID-19 led to lockdown. In the two weeks between writing it and sending it to Context, much has changed. Many of you have emailed with comments and suggestions based on your own evolving practices. By the time this has been published, it is impossible to know how much of the thinking described below will remain the same and what will have changed. What follows is therefore a punctuation, the capturing of some thoughts at a particular moment in time, full of the mania and fear and anxiety that comes from wanting to do something and not being quite sure what to do
Leading and containing in Higher Education during Covid-19
No full textStudent mental health has been on the agenda for some time, and of late we are seeing increasing awareness and concerns around staff mental health. This has been documented in HEPI’s publications such as The invisible problem? Improving students’ mental health by Poppy Brown, The Positive and Mindful University by Anthony Seldon and Alan Martin and most recently Pressure Vessels II: An update on mental health among higher education staff in the UK by Dr Liz Morrish, and Professor Nicky Priaulx..
How can services be improved to effectively address the mental health of vulnerable children and young people?
Get PDFThis discussion article describes a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in the United Kingdom developed to meet the mental health needs of children and young people particularly those vulnerable children and young people at risk of actual or potential harm through child abuse and neglect, but may not be therapy ready. The aim was to improve the level of access to CAMHS for vulnerable groups and the quality and effectiveness of services for children, young people and their families.The model of service delivery is underpinned by the THRIVE Framework for System Change (THRIVE) which builds on the resilience of families and the skills of the workers who have the closest relationships with them. The article describes how a redesign was accomplished in the London Borough of Camden between 2016-2018 to do this. Qualitative evidence of the positive impact of the changes for service users and key workers and quantitative evidence of the increased service capacity are presented. Challenges and opportunities provided by the new service model are discussed
Building children's resilience in the face of parental mental illness : Conversations with children, parents and professionals
No full textMental illness in a parent presents children with multiple challenges, including stigma, self-doubt and self-blame, ongoing anxiety and depression, that are rarely discussed in the public domain. This important new book, written by young people who have lived through these experiences, as well as professionals working alongside their families, highlights the relationships between children, parents and professionals, and the emotional issues they all face.
A key focus of the book is the relationships in all combinations between the children, parents and professionals, as well as the responses to each other illustrated throughout. It will be ideal for all those working in the health, social and educational professions, as well as parents and children themselves
To CAG or not to CAG? Difficulties in determining submission to the Confidentiality Advisory Group: A commentary
Get PDFThe Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) is a specialised body that advises the Health Research Authority (HRA) and the Secretary of State for Health on requests for access to confidential information, in the absence of informed consent from its owners. Its primary role is to oversee the safe use of such information and to counsel the governing bodies mentioned above as to whether such use is appropriate or inappropriate. Researchers who seek access to England or Wales-based confidential data, for medical purposes that are in the interest of the public, are typically required to submit an application to this body. However, it is not always clear to researchers whether requests for access to patient data fit within the remit of the CAG or a Trust’s local information governance team. This commentary will, therefore, explore the role of the CAG and reflect on how best to support researchers with this question
