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Supporting Children when Parents Separate

Embedding a Crisis Intervention Approach within Family Justice, Education and Mental Health Policy

By (author) Mervyn Murch
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Policy Press
Published: 4th Jul 2018
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 19mm
Weight: 602g
ISBN-10: 1447345967
ISBN-13: 9781447345961
Barcode No: 9781447345961
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After years of research and reflection on the work of the interdisciplinary family justice system Mervyn Murch offers a fresh approach to supporting the thousands of children every year who experience a complex form of bereavement following parental separation and divorce. This stressful family change, combined with the loss of support due to austerity cuts, can damage their education, well-being, mental health and long-term life chances. Murch argues for early preventative intervention which responds to children's worries when they first present them, without waiting until things have gone badly wrong. His radical proposals for reform involve a much more coordinated and joined up approach by schools, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. This book encourages practitioners and academics to look outside their professional silos and to see the world through the eyes of children in crisis to enable services to offer direct support in a manner and at a time when it is most needed.

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"This book contains the wisdom of a professional lifetime spent integrating mental health and judicial concerns from a leading architect of the family justice system." Christopher Clulow, PhD. Senior Fellow, the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology "Distilling a lifetime's work and reflection, this is an essential read for anyone concerned about the needs of children on family breakdown." Gillian Douglas, Executive Dean, King's College London "At a time when the mental health of our young people is of national concern... This is an essential text that should inform policy and practice both in family law and education." James Wetz, Author of 'Urban Village Schools'