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Family Sensitive Practice References

An extended reference list about families and mental illness (compiled by Joy Rodger, 1997) is available from the Mental Health Library (tel: 03 9342 2575).
The following is a list of selected references for workers on various FSP topics.

Involving Families
Wynne, L.C. (1994) The Rationale for Consultation with the Families of Schizophrenic Patients. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Vol. 90 (suppl. 384), 125-132.


What Families Need

Hatfield, A.B. (1982) Therapists and Families: Worlds Apart. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, Vol. 33, 513.

Hatfield, A.B., Fierstein, R. & Johnson, D.M. (1982) Meeting the Needs of Families of the Psychiatrically Disabled. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 6, 27-40.

About Blame
Furlong, M. & Young, J. (1996) Talking about Blame. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 17 (No. 4), 191-200.

White, M. (1987) Family Therapy and Schizophrenia: Addressing the 'In the Corner' Lifestyle. Dulwich Centre Newsletter, Spring, 14-21.

White, M. (1988) The Externalising of the Problem. Dulwich Centre Newsletter, Summer (special edition).

Confidentiality
Furlong, M. & Leggatt, M. (1996) Reconciling the Patient's Right to Confidentiality and the Family's Need to Know. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 30, 614-622.

Grief
Eakes, G.G. (1995) Chronic Sorrow: the Lived Experience of Parents of Chronically Mentally Ill Individuals. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, Vol. IX (No. 2), 77-84.

Lafond, V. (1994) Grieving Mental Illness: A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Miller, F. (1996) Grief Therapy for Relatives of Persons with Serious Mental Illness. Psychiatric Services, Vol. 47 (No. 6), 633-637.

Young, J., Rycroft, P, Bailey, G. (In press) Family Grief and Mental Health: A Systemic, Contextual and Compassionate Analysis, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy.

Coping with the long term
Furlong, M., Young, J., Perlesz, A., McLachlan, D. & Riess, C. (1991) For Family Therapists Involved in the Treatment of Chronic and Longer Term Conditions. Dulwich Centre Newsletter, Vol. 4, 58-68.

Young, J. (1994) The Loss of Time in Chronic Systems: An Intervention Model for Working with Longer-Term Conditions. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 15 (No. 2), 73-80.

Collaboration
Smith, J. & Birchwood, M. (1990) Relatives and Patients as Partners in the Management of Schizophrenia: The Development of a Service Model. British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 156, 654-660.

Carer-worker relations
Dugan, M. (1991) Us and Them, Dulwich Centre Newsletter, No. 4.

Young, J. & Oliver, I. (1997) Should Mental Health Professionals Show Their Feelings? Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 21 (No. 1), 23 - 31.

Carer Self Help
Alexander, K. (1991) Understanding and Coping with Schizophrenia: Fourteen Principles for the Relatives. Melbourne: Schwartz and Wilkinson.

Trauma and mental illness
Benham, E. (1995) Coping Strategies: a Psychoeducational Approach to Post-traumatic Symptomatology. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, Vol. 33 (No. 6), 30-35.

Hatfield, A., (1990) Mental Illness: A Catastrophic Event. (Chapter 2), Family Education in Mental Illness, The Guilford Press. New York.

Perlesz, A. (1999) Complex Responses to Trauma: Challenges in Bearing Witness. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 20, No. 12, 11 – 19.

Abuse and Mental Health
Briere, J. & Zaidi L.Y. (1989) Sexual abuse histories and sequelae in female psychiatric emergency room patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 1602 - 1606.

Dwyer, J., & Miller, R. (1997) Reclaiming the Mother-daughter Relationship after Sexual Abuse, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol 18, No. 4, 194 – 202.

Read, J. & Fraser, A. (1998) Abuse Histories of Psychiatric Inpatients: To Ask or Not to Ask? Psychiatric Services, Vol. 49, No. 3, 355 -359.

Cultural Differences
Bentelspacher, C.E. et al (1994) Coping and Adaptation Patterns Among Chinese, Indian and Malay Families Caring for a Mentally Ill Relative. Families, Society, Vol. 75 (No. 5, May), 287-294.

A Mother's Story
Deveson, A. (1991) Tell Me I'm Here. Melbourne: Penguin.

Strengths
Doornbos, M. (1996) The Strengths of Families Coping with Serious Mental Illness. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, Vol. 10 (No. 4), 214-220.

Evaluation Research
Dixon, L. Adams, C., & Lucksted, A. (2000) Update on Family Psychoeducation for Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 26(1), 5 - 20.

Dixon, L.B. & Lehman, A.F (1995) Family Interventions for Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, Vol. 21 (No. 4), 631-643.

Fadden, G. (1997) Implementation of family interventions in routing clinical practice following staff training programs: A major cause for concern, Journal of Mental Health; 6, 6: 599-612.

Hatfield, A.B., Gearon, J.S. & Coursey, R.D. (1996) Family Members' Ratings of the Use and Value of Mental Health Services: Results of a National NAMI Survey. Psychiatric Services, Vol. 47 (No. 8), 825-831.

McFarlane, W.R., Link, B., Dushay, R., Marchal, J. & Crilly, J. (1995) Psychoeducational Multiple Family Groups: Four Year Relapse Outcome in Schizophrenia. Family Process, Vol. 34, 127-144.

 

 



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