Parents in adult psychiatric care and their children : a call for more interagency collaboration with social services and child and adolescent psychiatry
Afzelius, Maria ; Östman, Margareta LU ; Råstam, Maria LU
and Priebe, Gisela
LU
(2018)
In Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
72(1).
p.31-38
- Abstract
Background: A parental mental illness affects all family members and should warrant a need for support. Aim: To investigate the extent to which psychiatric patients with underage children are the recipients of child-focused interventions and involved in interagency collaboration. Methods: Data were retrieved from a psychiatric services medical record database consisting of data regarding 29,972 individuals in southern Sweden and indicating the patients’ main diagnoses, comorbidity, children below the age of 18, and child-focused interventions. Results: Among the patients surveyed, 12.9% had registered underage children. One-fourth of the patients received child-focused interventions from adult psychiatry, and out of these 30.7% were... (More)
Background: A parental mental illness affects all family members and should warrant a need for support. Aim: To investigate the extent to which psychiatric patients with underage children are the recipients of child-focused interventions and involved in interagency collaboration. Methods: Data were retrieved from a psychiatric services medical record database consisting of data regarding 29,972 individuals in southern Sweden and indicating the patients’ main diagnoses, comorbidity, children below the age of 18, and child-focused interventions. Results: Among the patients surveyed, 12.9% had registered underage children. One-fourth of the patients received child-focused interventions from adult psychiatry, and out of these 30.7% were involved in interagency collaboration as compared to 7.7% without child-focused interventions. Overall, collaboration with child and adolescent psychiatric services was low for all main diagnoses. If a patient received child-focused interventions from psychiatric services, the likelihood of being involved in interagency collaboration was five times greater as compared to patients receiving no child-focused intervention when controlled for gender, main diagnosis, and inpatient care. Conclusions: Psychiatric services play a significant role in identifying the need for and initiating child-focused interventions in families with a parental mental illness, and need to develop and support strategies to enhance interagency collaboration with other welfare services.
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- Afzelius, Maria
; Östman, Margareta
LU
; Råstam, Maria
LU
and Priebe, Gisela
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- child-focused intervention, children, interagency collaboration, Parental mental illness, psychiatric services
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- Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
- volume
- 72
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 31 - 38
- publisher
- Informa Healthcare
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85029677558
- pmid:28933586
- wos:000417846400005
- ISSN
- 0803-9488
- DOI
- 10.1080/08039488.2017.1377287
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 01574eda-9558-47a1-a1e1-0cc7fc211ed5
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