Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0014
M. Murch
This chapter concludes the book with a number of challenging questions concerning the future. Among them are, will the movement to listen to and take account of the voices of children and young people in the policy process gain more public recognition and support? What will be the impact of further rapid advances in information technology on children themselves, their parents, and the helping professions? Will principles of preventive mental health and early supportive intervention come to underlie and be integral to the work of the education services (and primary healthcare) and that of the interdisciplinary family justice system? The chapter also considers the prospects for developing an early preventive approach to promote children and young people's positive mental health and wellbeing.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0007
M. Murch
This chapter discusses some of the reasons why Caplanian principles of preventive mental health have not generally as yet found their way into practice and policy in England and Wales. It then explains why services for children in this field, such as they are remain largely uncoordinated and focused on remedial services when problems have become acute and entrenched. Finally, it discusses why the development of preventive services in particular has proved so difficult. It argues that to be effective, supportive help needs to be provided during the crisis, not weeks or months after unrealistically maladaptive defences have been erected and when related problems have escalated. By enabling frontline community care agents such as school teachers to undertake crisis intervention when it is needed, the need for more expensive specialist therapeutic intervention is reduced later.
{"title":"The pros and cons of the preventive mental health approach","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses some of the reasons why Caplanian principles of preventive mental health have not generally as yet found their way into practice and policy in England and Wales. It then explains why services for children in this field, such as they are remain largely uncoordinated and focused on remedial services when problems have become acute and entrenched. Finally, it discusses why the development of preventive services in particular has proved so difficult. It argues that to be effective, supportive help needs to be provided during the crisis, not weeks or months after unrealistically maladaptive defences have been erected and when related problems have escalated. By enabling frontline community care agents such as school teachers to undertake crisis intervention when it is needed, the need for more expensive specialist therapeutic intervention is reduced later.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128296017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0011
M. Murch
This chapter considers a number of underlying problematic issues that make it difficult to change the culture of the family justice system so as to put the needs of children centre stage and see the system as part of a matrix of public services to promote children's wellbeing and strengthen their emotional resilience. The discussions cover the way the Coalition government set about cutting legal aid from most private family law proceedings; the repeated and longstanding failures to invest in information technology; the ‘normalisation’ of divorce and the problem of scale; the problem of labelling interparental disputes as ‘private law’ cases; the problem of ‘churn’ in civil service staffing policy; and attempts to overcome obstacles to interprofessional understanding and collaboration.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0005
M. Murch
This chapter illustrates the way children and young people experience parental separation using verbatim extracts from a multidisciplinary Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research study that the author took part with colleagues at Cardiff University. The study was just one of a number of other researches around the turn of the century that sought to examine children's experiences of divorce and family reconstruction. These reflected a cultural shift across the Western world that is a reaction against the traditional highly paternalistic view of childhood. The extracts selected broadly follow the children's reactions to key stages in the deterioration of their parents' relationship before, during and after the divorce.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0013
M. Murch
This chapter considers how the Caplanian approach might in time become embedded in a whole school system committed to a child's wellbeing and resilient mental health. The first part outlines policy and practice proposals, and looks further at how this approach to primary prevention should be applied not only in state schools but in the context of private boarding schools as well. The second part considers its potential application in the context of child-related litigation in family courts. The third part touches on its relevance to child and adolescent mental health services, and argues for the development of a broader consultative preventive mental health approach to augment and complement their specialist therapeutic intervention.
{"title":"Policy and practice proposals to support children and young people coping with interparental conflict and separation","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers how the Caplanian approach might in time become embedded in a whole school system committed to a child's wellbeing and resilient mental health. The first part outlines policy and practice proposals, and looks further at how this approach to primary prevention should be applied not only in state schools but in the context of private boarding schools as well. The second part considers its potential application in the context of child-related litigation in family courts. The third part touches on its relevance to child and adolescent mental health services, and argues for the development of a broader consultative preventive mental health approach to augment and complement their specialist therapeutic intervention.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"833 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123015025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0009
M. Murch
Section S.18 of the Children and Families Act 2014 repealed s41 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Generally known as the welfare check in undefended divorce cases where there were no accompanying applications for child-related orders, these provisions required a district judge to scrutinise a Statement of Arrangements for all the dependent children of the family in order to determine whether the court should exercise any of its powers under the Children Act 1989. The repeal of s41 raised the question of whether the state should attempt to safeguard these children's welfare in some other more effective way. This chapter examines the matter from the perspective of a socio-legal researcher who over the years has studied the operation of the welfare check in its various guises, and who has conducted several other child-related divorce studies, including some high-conflict cases where the children were separately represented.
{"title":"The repeal of Section 41 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and related reforms: is the state turning a blind eye to the needs of children in divorce proceedings?","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Section S.18 of the Children and Families Act 2014 repealed s41 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Generally known as the welfare check in undefended divorce cases where there were no accompanying applications for child-related orders, these provisions required a district judge to scrutinise a Statement of Arrangements for all the dependent children of the family in order to determine whether the court should exercise any of its powers under the Children Act 1989. The repeal of s41 raised the question of whether the state should attempt to safeguard these children's welfare in some other more effective way. This chapter examines the matter from the perspective of a socio-legal researcher who over the years has studied the operation of the welfare check in its various guises, and who has conducted several other child-related divorce studies, including some high-conflict cases where the children were separately represented.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127861189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0003
M. Murch
This chapter summarizes the principal research findings of social and behavioural science which highlight factors concerning risk and resilience in children when parental conflict results in the breakup of their families. The purpose is simply to indicate the growing background knowledge base for the practice and policy proposals for preventive support services for children. Two main streams of research are considered. The first focuses on the social and emotional wellbeing of children in schools. These institutions have a primary preventive role, as indeed do primary healthcare teams. The second, drawn largely from the field of developmental psychology, focuses more on intra-familial behavioural issues. This is a rapidly growing area of knowledge which is being recognised and applied more particularly to the field of parental conflict resolution and in the context of the interdisciplinary family justice system.
{"title":"Summarised research reviews upon which to promote social and emotional wellbeing in children of separated parents","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter summarizes the principal research findings of social and behavioural science which highlight factors concerning risk and resilience in children when parental conflict results in the breakup of their families. The purpose is simply to indicate the growing background knowledge base for the practice and policy proposals for preventive support services for children. Two main streams of research are considered. The first focuses on the social and emotional wellbeing of children in schools. These institutions have a primary preventive role, as indeed do primary healthcare teams. The second, drawn largely from the field of developmental psychology, focuses more on intra-familial behavioural issues. This is a rapidly growing area of knowledge which is being recognised and applied more particularly to the field of parental conflict resolution and in the context of the interdisciplinary family justice system.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117098523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0008
M. Murch
This chapter discusses some ideas about how the Caplanian approach to preventive mental health — specifically the method of crisis intervention — might be applied in state schools, a non-stigmatic site for primary prevention. It argues that there is a strong prima facie case, based both on evidence from children and young people and from theory, for finding ways and means to apply crisis intervention methods of support for children in schools to help them cope with stressful upheavals associated with intense interparental conflict, separation and divorce. The main challenge is how to persuade practitioners and policy makers and educational and school health services that this is a promising approach worth developing.
{"title":"Providing short-term primary preventive crisis intervention for children in schools","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses some ideas about how the Caplanian approach to preventive mental health — specifically the method of crisis intervention — might be applied in state schools, a non-stigmatic site for primary prevention. It argues that there is a strong prima facie case, based both on evidence from children and young people and from theory, for finding ways and means to apply crisis intervention methods of support for children in schools to help them cope with stressful upheavals associated with intense interparental conflict, separation and divorce. The main challenge is how to persuade practitioners and policy makers and educational and school health services that this is a promising approach worth developing.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123209069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0002
M. Murch
This chapter summarizes some key social and demographic statistics from England and Wales which illustrate the scale of the challenge which faces any governments should they wish to develop strategic preventative social and legal policies to better support children and young people caught up in the critical family transitions following the breakdown of their parents' relationship. It begins with some preliminary observations which may not be immediately apparent from the bold figures. It then discusses fluctuating divorce rates and the increase in cohabitation, and statistical problems concerning the number of children involved in private law litigation involving contact and residence orders.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-04DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0001
M. Murch
This chapter first explains the author's motivation for writing this book. It then sets out the basic questions which this book seeks to address: Against the harsher economic and political climate, how will the interests of children be protected when their parent's relationship runs into difficulties leading to separation and divorce? Above all, will more and more children feel sidelined? Will they find that their needs for support and information are ignored when having to cope with stressful problems at home? These are important questions, particularly as there is mounting evidence of the potentially adverse consequences for their education, social wellbeing and mental health — to say nothing of the likelihood that some will be at risk of serious abuse and/or exploitation.
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