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Author Murch, Mervyn, author

Title Supporting children when parents separate : embedding a crisis intervention approach within family justice, education and mental health policy / Mervyn Murch
Published Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 386 pages) : illustrations
Contents Intro; SUPPORTING CHILDREN WHEN PARENTS SEPARATE; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I . Illuminating the field of policy; Introduction to Part I: Some key background data; 1. Setting out the stall; Introduction; 2. Numbers, scale and trends; Introduction; Fluctuating divorce rates and the increase in cohabitation; Statistical problems concerning the number of children involved in private law litigation involving contact and residence orders; 3. Summarised research reviews upon which to promote social and emotional wellbeing in children of separated parents; Introduction
Useful research reviewsThe use of terms and definitions; Risk factors; Protective factors; The impact of interparental conflict on children's academic attainment; Findings from child and family developmental psychology; Disruption to the policy-making process under the coalition government; 4. Hearing the voice of the child: messages from research that expose gaps between theory, principle and reality; Introduction; The voice of the child in family justice; The child's right to be heard when administrative and legal decisions are taken: a summary of the law
Messages from socio-legal researchPart II. Primary prevention; Introduction to Part II: Children dealing with the crisis of parental separation: towards new supportive practice and policy; 6. The crisis model of preventive mental health and its potential application for support services for children coping with parental separation; Introduction; An outline of the concept: the crisis model of mental health; Post-war development of the conceptual building blocks; Simultaneous crises: 'double and triple whammies'; Five key stages of crisis resolution
Crisis intervention: a preventive community mental health approachCrisis intervention: adjusting the approach to stages in the crisis resolution process; Support from natural caregivers; Support from school friends; The techniques of crisis intervention: the role of the passage agent; 7. The pros and cons of the preventive mental health approach; Introduction; Obstacles hindering the preventive crisis intervention approach; The case for the early intervention preventive approach; 8. Providing short-term primary preventive crisis intervention for children in schools; Introduction
Why focus on primary prevention in schools?A brief outline of the broader picture of schools' promotion of children's social and emotional wellbeing; A summary of policy concerning the development of mental health provision in schools 2010-16: a story of damage limitation?; 2017: Prime Minister Theresa May -- what prospects for much needed reform?; Weaving the primary preventive Caplanian model of crisis intervention into a whole school wellbeing programme: a challenge to innovate; Part III . Secondary prevention
Summary "After years of research and reflection on the work of the interdisciplinary family justice system Mervyn Murch offers a fresh approach to supporting the thousands of children every year who experience a complex form of bereavement following parental separation and divorce. This stressful family change, combined with the loss of support due to austerity cuts, can damage their education, well-being, mental health and long-term life chances. Murch argues for early preventative intervention which responds to children's worries when they first present them, without waiting until things have gone badly wrong. His radical proposals for reform involve a much more coordinated and joined up approach by schools, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. This book encourages practitioners and academics to look outside their professional silos and to see the world through the eyes of children in crisis to enable services to offer direct support in a manner and at a time when it is most needed."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 24, 2018)
Subject Children of divorced parents -- Government policy
Children of separated parents -- Education
Children of separated parents -- Mental health services
Children of separated parents -- Legal status, laws, etc
Children of divorced parents -- Education
Children of divorced parents -- Mental health services
Children of divorced parents -- Legal status, laws, etc
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Divorce & Separation.
Children of divorced parents -- Education
Children of divorced parents -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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