Fathers with mental illness: implications for clinicians and health services

Title: Fathers with mental illness: implications for clinicians and health services
Creator: Fletcher, Richard J.; Maharaj, O'Neil N.; Fletcher Watson, Chloe H.; May, Chris; Skeates, Nigel; Gruenert, Stefan
Relation: Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 1, Issue Suppl. 1, p. 34-36
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mjao11.11140
Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Summary: A significant proportion of fathers living with their natural, adopted, step or foster children experience mental illness. Psychiatric illness among fathers can have a devastating impact on children’s wellbeing, and even milder forms of paternal mental illness can have serious developmental effects on children. While several pathways linking paternal mental illness with poor child outcomes have been identified, fathers’ impaired parenting is an important, potentially malleable factor. Clinicians can assist fathers with mental illness and their families by proactively inquiring about children and by exploring fathering-focused psychological support.
Subject: fathers; mental illness; health services; children
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054872
Identifier: uon:15797
Identifier: ISSN:0025-729X
Language: eng

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