Parenting & Family
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A postcard from Malta
“It’s all to do with education and standards, and trying to bridge that gap”
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Self-Harm: The Parent’s View
Though it is not always openly discussed, the impact self-harm has on the individual and their family, can be very distressing. For someone to recover from ‘rock-bottom’ requires support, with family being an obvious source. It makes sense that the pillars of this support system, parents in most cases, feel equipped to support their child in recovering from such an experience. Saying this, there is little research on parents’ perspective of care following self-harm.
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The Parent Blame Game
Seventy years ago Leo Kanner published his seminal paper describing autism. In that paper he also coined the term “refrigerator mother” apportioning some of the cause for the distinctive profile of autistic behaviour to cold, harsh parenting practices.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 58, Issue 01, January 2017
“Science unskewed – acknowledging and reducing ‘risk of bias’ in parenting research” by Edmund Sonuga-Barke
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2016
“Mapping the influence of schools and parents and translating innovation into routine clinical practice” by Kapil Sayal.
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