Explores the communication strategies that can be used to talk to parents, children and families about parental mental health issues.

Provides a range of audit tools for front line managers to gauge the readiness of their staff to implement the ‘Think Family’ guidance. It also identifies the key drivers needed by strategic managers to target action at a local level, identify the barriers to change and potential solutions.

Explores screening, active signposting and early intervention, and their importance in addressing the needs of all parts of the family system.

oks at what makes an effective plan as well as considering how reviewing processes can be used to ensure changing needs are assessed and plans modified as a result.

Explores the challenges facing workers in maintaining a multi-agency approach and how the Family Model can be used to strengthen professional working relationships.

Explores the key principles of working in partnership with parents.

Explores the impact of parental mental illness on all family members. Also looks at child development stages and some common diagnoses, interventions and treatments for mental illness.

An introduction to the family model and the impacts of some common risks, stressors and protective factors.

These resource use audio, video and interactive technology to assist in exploring the nature of parental mental health and its impact on families.

The objective of this learning object is to understand the concept of ‘resilience’ and the value of ‘protective factors’ in planning to support vulnerable children. This resource contains information on risk, research evidence, protective factors and the ecological model as well as resilient children and protective environments