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Working with families in mental health
Foster, Kim Usher, Kim Hawkins, Kerry
Foster, Kim
Usher, Kim
Hawkins, Kerry
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Abstract
Recognising the vital importance of mental health consumers’ relationships to their wellbeing, this chapter focuses on how nurses can provide effective care to consumers that is inclusive of the needs of the whole family—the consumer and their children and/or adults with whom they live and love.
Keywords
allostasis, carers, children of parents with mental illness (COPMI), family-focused practice (FFP), families where a parent has mental illness (FAPMI), family of origin, family of procreation or choice, family recovery, family resilience, intergenerational mental illness, strengths-based approach
Date
2017
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Book chapter
Journal
Book
Psychiatric and mental health nursing
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Page Range
222-236
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ACU Department
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Controlled