Mental health and foster carer training

Mental health and foster carer training.

AIMS To evaluate the impact of training foster carers on children's emotional and behavioural functioning. METHODS In a randomised controlled trial in 17 Scottish local council areas, with immediate and nine month follow up, 182 children and their foster families were randomly allocated to either standard services alone or standard services plus extra training for foster carers on communicati...

User and carer involvement in mental health training

National policy in the UK emphasises the importance of involving service users and caregivers in all types of mental health provision. The training of mental health care and social service professionals has always relied on seeing patients, but the patients’ role has usually been a passive one. This is now changing, and service users and carers are becoming active educators in professional trai...

Family carer education in mental health

Mental health consumer and carer participation: why we bother.

the physical and mental health of children in foster care.

to evaluate physical and mental health in children in foster care and comparison with general population.the study is carried out between september 2011 and april 2012 into nine group homes in rome. it involved 112 children ranging in age 2-17 years, living in temporary care facilities or institutes. all data came out of clinical history and physical exams, validated by a pediatrician. such dat...