Scientific Journals

Collective Impact on Prevention: Let’s Talk About Children Service Model and Decrease in Referrals to Child Protection Services

Families with parental mental health issues often have numerous problems needing multilevel measures to address them. The “Let’s Talk about Children Service Model (LT-SM)” is a community-based service approach aiming at collectively impacting population needs regarding...

An Evidence-Based Practice Developed in-situ: Let’s Talk About Children and a Consolidation of Its Evidence Base

Traditional models of evidence-based practice assume knowledge is developed in research settings before being installed in practice settings. The role practice settings can play in enhancing effectiveness and enabling sustainability is not therefore acknowledged. Developing...

Promoting Self-Determination in Parents With Mental Illness in Adult Mental Health Settings

This article reports a strengths-based intervention to support parents with mental illness and their children in adult mental health settings: “Let’s Talk About Children” (LTC) intervention. A qualitative methodology was adopted with parent participants receiving LTC...

Identification of Children of Parents With Mental Illness

The main objective of this study was to identify and describe core life circumstances of children with mentally ill parents (COPMI) and their parents. Knowledge about COPMI aged 0–17 years is necessary, as assessment of the risk and protective factors in their lives provide solid...