Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment: Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Approaches for Parents and Children

by Donohue; Mary V

• ISBN13: 9780789035097
• ISBN10: 078903509X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Providing parent-child occupation-based interventions can be one of the most important therapeutic services offered to children or parents with mental illness and their families. Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment: Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Approaches for Parents and Children provides useful in-depth "how to" strategies into the processes of providing family occupation-based group intervention when a child has a mental illness. Occupational therapists working with children or parents with mental illness can learn valuable practical interventions to apply in their own clinical work. Cherished activities that strengthen parent-child bonds are many times lacking in families that include a child or parent with mental illness.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
What Do We Know About the Daily Interactions Between Children with Mental Illness and Their Parents?	p. 11
Introducing Parents and Children Participating in One Parent-Child Group on a Child Inpatient Psychiatric Unit	p. 23
One Parent Child Activity Group: A Framework and Snapshots	p. 33
A Qualitative Research Study of One Parent-Child Activity Group	p. 49
Exploring What Was Missing in One Parent-Child Activity Group	p. 83
Parent-Child Activity Groups Reconsidered	p. 103
Engaging Psychiatrically Hospitalized Teens with Their Parents Through a Parent-Adolescent Activity Group	p. 121
When a Mother Is Depressed: Supporting Her Capacity to Participate in Co-Occupation with Her Baby-A Case Study	p. 135
Closing Thoughts About Promoting Parent-Child Co-Occupation Through Parent-Child Activity Intervention	p. 153
Index	p. 157
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