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Organisational Systems and Services for Children of Parents with Mental Illness and Their Families: Processes of Change and Sustainability
- Source :
- Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 37:399-407
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009.
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Abstract
- Adult mental illness in the community including depression and anxiety has achieved greater public awareness and visibility in recent years and this has also resulted in increased recognition about the widespread impact on dependent children. During the past decade in Australia, policies and specific programs for infants, children and youth in terms of prevention, early intervention and promotion in relation to children of parents with a mental illness (‘copmi’) have been devised. However, these have generally been disconnected projects, essentially supported only by non-recurrent funding. In more recent years, systematic and interconnected responses involving a wider range of government, non-government and consumer and carer organisations to build sustainability have become the focus. However, little research about change processes affecting the organisational systems serving children of parents with mental illness and their families has been undertaken. This aim of the current study is to describe the enablers and barriers that contribute to change in systems and government and non-government organisations in relation to children of parents with a mental illness in Australia over the past decade, within the context of sustainability. The study involved interviews, focus groups and website and literature searches regarding systems change across Australian states and territories and nationally in relation to the enablers, barriers and future directions. Strategic and intentional processes within organisations, more evolutionary ongoing cross-agency processes and links to sustained changes are key systems change findings. Relevance for change in other health services is highlighted. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
- Subjects :
- media_common.quotation_subject
Culture
Child Welfare
Context (language use)
organisational change
Health administration
Promotion (rank)
Child of Impaired Parents
Nursing
Organization development
Health care
medicine
Humans
Child
Policy Making
media_common
Government
business.industry
Mental Disorders
Health Policy
Australia
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Public relations
sustainability
Mental illness
medicine.disease
mental illness
Focus group
Leadership
Psychiatry and Mental health
Interinstitutional Relations
dependent children
Pshychiatric Mental Health
Psychology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733289 and 0894587X
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3575188c66ebeae8101f2ecd3fc5f8bf