Context - The Association for Family Therapy in the UK

	Context 108 April 2010
	“Think family”: Parental mental health in action
	Issue editors: Yoko Totsuka and Enid Colmer
Contents		page
Editorial
Yoko Totsuka and Enid Colmer		1
Depressed women talking about mothering
Susan Wagstaff		3
“Then Mum got taken into hospital”: Young people’s experience of parents’ admission to psychiatric hospital
Yoko Totsuka		6
Addressing mental health legacies: Learning from research
Enid Colmer		9
The house on Glenwood Street: “I keep it in the family”
Carlos J. Sanchez		14
Lost his father to suicide: The survival testimony of a young man
Razi Shachar		16
I can tell you a thing or two about parental mental health
Sonja Upton		19
Grandparents looking after grandchildren – between a rock and a hard place
Gwen Sandfield and Michael Göpfert		20
West Barnet Family Work Service: An adult mental health training and clinical provision project
Lorraine Davies-Smith, Anne Whelan and Rachel Gibson		24
Working in a CAMHS setting with families where both an adult and a child have a diagnosis
Annette Wetherell and Trish Huitson		30
Crossing the bridge: To dip our toes in the water? Learning to take tentative steps towards setting up and delivering a service for adults within a children’s voluntary organisation
Leah Salter and Billy Hardy		33
Reflections on my work with depressed parents and their babies
Carolyn Ramsamy		37
Parental mental ill health: What informs good practice?
Michael Göpfert, Nora McClelland, James Wilson		40
New narratives for parents with mental health difficulties
Ruth Pluznick and Natasha Kis-Sines		43
Engaging with agency cultures in parental mental illness training
Gwyn Daniel and Jasmine Chin		47
New perspectives in working with parental mental health
Elan Hoffman		51
“If we value our children, we must cherish their parents”
David Bailey		53
The dance of attempting to break down barriers: Working with children and families where a parent is experiencing mental health difficulties
Karen Daniel		56
Making Links: The reality of a CAMHS and adult mental health venture
Shan Tate, Kate Perry, Amanda Fox & Shane Matthews		59
To come to reasonable terms with one’s own history: Children, parents and mental health
David Denborough		63
AFT news		67
Advertising		68