Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Work Volume 2

Product Description


Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Work Volume 2 is the second volume in a series that explores the mental health of parents and its impact on child welfare. It acts as a yearly update on key research, policy developments and practice innovations, both in the UK and around the world. This publication is a unique opportunity to explore and share ideas about ‘success’ and what ‘leads to success’ from the different perspective of parents, children and the professionals who work with them. Much like its predecessor, it draws together a range of experts in the field – researchers, policy makers, practitioners and service users – to identify both the opportunities and challenges, as well as to explore what works in which contexts, for whom and why.


About the Author


Marie has enjoyed a long career in social work, multi-disciplinary mental health services management, research and practice development. Marie has been a registered social worker for 25 years. After qualifying in 1989 Marie worked for the London Borough of Lewisham and South London and Maudsley Mental Health NHS Trust until 2002. During this period Marie held a variety of positions including; generic social worker, specialist mental health practitioner and between 1995 to 2002 mental health integrated services manager. She is an experienced trainer and has co-trained alongside parents, children and other professionals. In 2002 Marie joined the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) as a practice development manager progressing to senior practice development in 2007. Marie worked with key stakeholders (government departments, health and social care staff, academics and service users and carers) to identify innovative approaches to embedding evidence about what works in health and social care in different practice settings. She made particular contributions to SCIE’s mental health strategy and resources. These include Think child, think parent, think family: a guide to parental mental health and child welfare. This Guide was first published in 2009 and has continued to be of relevance for both policy and practice development. Marie led the development of SCIE’s regional profile. She was involved with SCIE’s digital production since its inception in 2007 and is experienced in the development of content for eLearning, film and other digital products. Marie contributed to Integration step by step, SCIE’s digital resource to support integrated working, drawing on her understanding of practice development, practice contexts and multi-disciplinary working environments. Marie has extensive experience in practice analysis and research including gathering and analysing diverse stakeholder perspectives. Her Phd ‘What works: Researching success in parental mental health and child welfare work’ (Anglia Ruskin University, 2014) focuses on different perspectives of success and identifying the contributions that parents, children and the different professionals working with them (social workers, mental health workers, teachers) make to promote child and family resilience. Marie left SCIE in 2014 and is now working independently as a part-time freelance consultant.