Partnership in mental health and child welfare: Social work responses to children living with parental mental illness

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 309-324

  Sheehan, Rosemary ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child protection; Child protection social work; Child welfare; Children's courts; Mental health social work; Parental mental health; Social work decision making

Indexed keywords

CHILD ABUSE; CHILD CARE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD WELFARE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIAL WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL DISORDERS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHIATRIC; VICTORIA;

EID: 14644407388     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v39n03_06     Document Type: Conference Paper

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