For Professionals

The Kidstime Workshops:
A Multi-Family Social Intervention for the Effects of Parental Mental Illness (2012)

The ‘Kidstime’ is an approach to helping the children of parents with mental illness. The approach has developed over the past 12 years (Cooklin 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010). ‘Kidstime’ aims to:

  • help the children and young people gain understandable explanations of their parents’ mental illness, and the behaviour in the parent which may be associated with this
  • address the children’s various fears, confusion, and lack of knowledge about mental illness and its treatment
  • help the parents who suffer from mental illness find a medium within which the illness and its impact can be discussed between themselves and their children
  • help the parents access or rediscover their pride, confidence and competencies as parents
  • help the children experience their parents responding in a more positive manner
  • encourage the children and young people to feel freer to engage in pleasurable age-appropriate activities.
   
Mental Health Outcome Measures for Children and Young People (2009)

A booklet to help you find, analyse and use information to develop and deliver services to support the emotional, psychological and mental health needs of children and young people. Authored by Paula Lavis and published in partnership with YoungMinds and the Department for Children, Schools & Families.
   
   
Knowing Where To Look (2008)

A booklet to help you find, analyse and use information to develop and deliver services to support the emotional, psychological and mental health needs of children and young people. Authored by Paula Lavis and published in partnership with YoungMinds and the Department for Children, Schools & Families.
   
A Mental Health Care Pathway for Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities
- resource pack (2007)

A resource pack for services to help them become more accessible to children with learning disabilities.
   
Drawing on the Evidence (2002)

A booklet that explains the latest research in this area to busy practitioners to help them make appropriate treatment choices. 10,000 copies have now been distributed across the UK and beyond.