title: An Emotional Awareness Based Parenting Group for Parents with Mental Illness: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study of Community Mental Health Nurse Facilitation.
abstract: There has been limited examination of the use of relationship based structured parenting programs that focus on emotional interactions in the parent-child dyad in families where a parent has a mental illness. There is also a lack of awareness of the practicalities of providing such interventions within adult mental health services. This study explores the process and outcomes of a nurse led emotional awareness based parenting program for adult clients of a mental health service. Participants demonstrated a significant reduction in difficult parenting moments and associated stress and distress as well as promising improvements in overall distress and emotional awareness.
authors.affiliation: Research, Mental Health Services, Sydney Local Health District, Australia. Electronic address: sophie.isobel@sswahs.nsw.gov.au.
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Isobel
authors.affiliation: Children of Parents with a Mental Illness, Mental Health Services, Sydney Local Health District, Australia.
authors.forename: Felicity
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meehan
authors.affiliation: Children of Parents with a Mental Illness, Mental Health Services, Sydney Local Health District, Australia.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pretty
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing