The Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children - Dr Alan Cooklin

This lecture will examine the impact of parental mental illness on children. There are 175,000 young carers of parents with mental illness in the UK but maybe as many as 1,000,000 children affected by an adult's mental illness. They worry about their parents and perhaps be blame themselves, or fear that they will also 'catch' it. They often fall through the professional net, are seen as nobody's responsibility and receive no help. Film illustrations will be given of very small interventions which can help protect children from the negative effects.

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-impact-of-parental-mental-he...

Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website.
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Education

Tags:

• Mental Health
• Children
• Children's Health
• parents
• psychology
• psychiatry
• schizophrenia
• Gresham College
• Gresham
• Psychiatry lecture
• Psychiatry talk
• Public Lecture
• Free education