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Mowbray, Carol T.; Oyserman, Daphna

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“…Young people of parents with a mental illness may experience school problems and difficulties with attention or self-regulation. For example, they experience higher dropout rates at school (19), an increased likelihood of being taken into foster care (20) and an increased risk of developing a substance abuse disorder (21). Self-harm and suicide rates are higher in young people who have a parent with mental illness (22).…”

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Mental Health Literacy of Youth That Have a Family Member With a Mental Illness: Outcomes From a New Program and Scale

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A program evaluation examined mental health literacy levels and coping outcomes for youth (ages 10–16), before and at the end of their participation in a manualized, school-based mental health literacy program called Youth Education and Support (YES). Most of the youth reportedly had a parent or other family member with a mental health disorder such as depression, anxiety, and/or substance abuse. The mental health literacy levels of program participants from pre to post were evaluated with the developing Knowledge of Mental Illness and Recovery (K-MIR) scale. This scale was validated using item-response theory, demonstrating good psychometric properties. Youth answered two coping questions about their use of positive coping during the program and coping skills compared from pre to post intervention. Findings revealed that youth levels of mental health literacy increased significantly from pre to post program participation. Over 90% of the youth reported an improved use of positive coping strategies from pre to post intervention. The program appeared to deliver enhanced levels of literacy and coping for this sample of youth. The scale appeared to be appropriate to measure youth mental health literacy. Recommendations for practice, policy, and research are offered.

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Mental Health Literacy of Youth That Have a Family Member With a Mental Illness: Outcomes From a New Program and Scale

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“…There are many Australian families affected by parental mental illness, with 23.3% of Australian children having one or both parents with a mental illness (Maybery, Reupert, Patrick, Goodyear, & Crase, 2009). Without intervention, these children are at two to three times greater risk than their peers of developing their own mental health issue (Edwards, Eiden, & Leonard, 2006;Leschied, Chiodo, Whitehead, & Hurley, 2005) or associated problems such as poor academic achievement and school failure (Farahati, Marcotte, & Wilcox-Gő k, 2003), being taken into care (Leschied et al, 2005), or acquiring a substance abuse disorder (Mowbray & Oyserman, 2003). These problems may continue into adulthood (Weissman et al, 2006).…”

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“Let's Talk about Children”: A pilot evaluation of an e‐learning resource for mental health clinicians

Tchernegovski

Reupert

Maybery

2015

Clinical Psychologist

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Background Given the prevalence of parental mental illness, accessible opportunities are needed to enhance clinicians' capacity for working with parents, in an early intervention framework. The Let's Talk about Children e‐learning resource aims to provide clinicians with skills to empower parents to support their family. This pilot study examines clinicians' views regarding the acceptability of the resource and assesses its effectiveness in developing clinicians' attitude, skill, and knowledge when working with parents with a mental illness. Methods A sequential mixed‐method design was employed. There were 21 mental health clinicians (primarily nurses, social workers, and psychologists) who completed the Family‐Focused Workforce Questionnaire, pre‐ and post‐training with the e‐learning resource. All 21 participants were offered a post‐training interview to discuss their experience of the resource, and 8 participants accepted. Results The e‐learning resource was effective at enhancing participants' practices, such as assessing the impact of mental illness on parenting and child development, and providing information and resources to families. Participants recognised the importance of empowering parents, although noted that further organisational support was required to implement the intervention. Conclusions Preliminary results tentatively indicate that the e‐learning resource may be an effective professional development tool for clinicians. Future research is required to ascertain its long‐term impact.

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“…Youth with a parent or other family member with a mental illness often experience family separations, early caregiving, frequent moves, school changes, and high rates of worrying about family and personal well-being (26). Mental health stigma is associated with higher rates of out of home placements for children with a parent with a mental illness (27).…”

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“…Youth living with a parent with a mental illness may experience a challenging family environment that can include parenting difficulties, emotional vulnerability, high stress reactivity, and child feelings of guilt, shame, and loneliness (28,29). COPFMI are more likely to acquire mental illnesses than children without COPFMI experience (26,30), especially depression and anxiety.…”

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Developing and Initially Validating the Youth Mental Health Literacy Scale for Ages 11–14

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Despite rising rates of youth mental health disorders and suicides, most youth lack access to accurate, non-stigmatized mental health information. Instead, many describe people with mental illness as violent and incompetent. Mental health literacy aligns with resilience theory. It assumes that youth that have accurate mental health information will have less stigmatized views of mental illness and will be more likely to seek help earlier should mental health symptoms arise. Accurate, non-stigmatized mental health information is especially needed for Children of a Parent or other Family Member that has a mental illness (COPFMI) since they are more likely to acquire a mental illness than children who do not have a family member with a mental illness. COPFMI youth are in need of the same mental health information as general population youth but they can also benefit from knowing how to deal with a family member's mental health disorder. Based on many foundation studies and key stakeholder input from parents, educators, mental health providers, child welfare providers, and especially youth, an emerging Youth Mental Health Literacy (YMHL) scale was developed and validated for measuring the mental health literacy levels of youth ages 11–14. The scale provides a full scale score of youth mental health literacy. It has subscales of knowledge of mental illness and recovery; stigma, help seeking for self/others; coping with stress; and dealing with family mental health challenges. The validation study indicated support for a unidimensional structure for each of the refined subscales. The subscales showed suitable reliability as evaluated by several measures of internal consistency. While the scale needs further study with larger samples of youth, it is hoped that the scale can yield mental health literacy outcome data that can help mental health literacy programs to build evidence-based programs that may, in turn, help prevent, delay, or ameliorate mental health disorders among youth.

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Mental Health Literacy of Youth That Have a Family Member With a Mental Illness: Outcomes From a New Program and Scale

Mental Health Literacy of Youth That Have a Family Member With a Mental Illness: Outcomes From a New Program and Scale

“Let's Talk about Children”: A pilot evaluation of an e‐learning resource for mental health clinicians

Developing and Initially Validating the Youth Mental Health Literacy Scale for Ages 11–14

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