Interfaces Project Report: Exploring the links between mental health services for children, adults and families
15 January 2004

Author: Tony Gillam et al   Publisher: NIMHE West Midlands Mental Health Development Centre and Meriden Programme

One of the issues that adult mental health workers have struggled with in implementing family work with a Behavioural Family Therapy framework has been the challenge that working with families presents to the established practice of working with individuals. Within the Meriden Programme there were already concerns that the needs of children whose parents were experiencing mental health problems were being missed.

The Interfaces Project provided an opportunity to examine in some detail the extent to which modern mental health systems are responding to service users as parents, and working in partnership with other agencies and groups who have a role in ensuring children's well-being and healthy emotional development.

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For further information: Keren Corbett  NIMHE West Midlands