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The Mental Wellbeing of Children and Parents When There are Child Protection Concerns – Can volunteers help?

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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:48 authored by Jane Akister, Niamh O'Brien
In child protection work the main focus is on safeguarding the child and promoting better parenting. Focus on mental health is limited even though we know that problems with mental health (parental or child) impact on family functioning. An evaluation of an innovative scheme, ‘Volunteers in Child Protection’ that promotes volunteers to work alongside statutory child care workers in complex child protection cases measured the mental health outcomes for the family. At referral, two thirds of the families were dysfunctional, with children having emotional and behavioural disturbance and some mothers having clinical levels of depression. Repeat measures indicate improvements in children’s emotional wellbeing, family functioning and mother’s mental wellbeing during the volunteer intervention.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

Feb

Issue number

2014

Page range

6-14

Publication title

Childhood Remixed

ISSN

2515-4516

Publisher

University of Suffolk

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2017-07-31

Legacy creation date

2017-07-25

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)

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