Working Parents

Working with vaccine-hesitant parents

While most Canadian parents ensure that their children are immunized on time, some are hesitant about vaccination, delay vaccinations or outright refuse recommended vaccines. This practice point offers clinicians evidencebased guidance on how to work with vaccine-hesitant parents, especially those with safety concerns. Suggested steps include: understanding the specific parental vaccine concern...

Working with Teenage Parents: Handbook of Theory and Practice for Practitioners Working with Pregnant Teenagers, Young Parents and Their Children

The aim of this book is to offer practical guidance on how to identify domestic violence and respond to patient disclosures in a clinical setting. It is aimed at all mental health professionals, although general practitioners are likely to find it a valuable resource. The book covers the bi-directional association between mental health and domestic violence and its prevalence. The following cha...

Working-Class Jobs and New Parents’ Mental Health

Little research has explored linkages between work conditions and mental health in workingclass employed parents. The current study aims to address this gap, employing hierarchical linear modeling techniques to examine how levels of and changes in job autonomy, job urgency, supervisor support, and coworker support predicted parents’ depressive symptoms in a sample of 113 dual-earner couples int...

Working in Partnership through Early Support: distance learning text Working with parents in partnership

Helping parents by working with their children in individual child therapy

Many practitioners who work with children and families will at some point have experienced the difficulty of engaging parents in addressing problems over their troubled children. Defeated, angry, disappointed or puzzled, it is hard for parents to be told that what they do with their children may radically affect how the child behaves. They are sensitive to feelings of being blamed, and often th...