Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment

Get the tools for practical family-based interventions for children or adolescents with mental illness Providing parent-child occupation-based interventions can be one of the most important therapeutic services offered to children or parents with mental illness and their families. Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment: Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Approaches for Parents and Children provides useful in depth how to strategies into the processes of providing family occupation-based group intervention when a child has a mental illness. Occupational therapists working with children or parents with mental illness can learn valuable practical interventions to apply in their own clinical work. Cherished activities that strengthen parent-child bonds are many times lacking in families that include a child or parent with mental illness. Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment describes valuable parent-child occupation-based interventions with detailed examples of how they have been provided in therapy. This text provides an overview of the literature related to providing family-based psychiatric OT treatment for children and their families, a framework for providing services, rich descriptions of a parent-child activity group, a parent-adolescent activity group, and case studies of inpatient and home-based occupation based interventions. Topics in Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment include: - an overview of theory and research literature on the nature of the interaction between parents and children with emotional disorders - detailed case studies of family challenges with mental illness - a framework for parent-child activity groups - a qualitative study of a parent-child activity group - analysis of the barriers that can arise in a parent-child activity group - clinical experiences leading a parent-adolescent activity group - analysis of the influences of culture within a parent-child activity group - a case study of the intervention for a depressed mother and her family - issues between parents and professionals when children are psychiatrically hospitalized Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment provides occupational therapists and other professionals who lead parent-child groups or who work with families that include a child or parent with mental illness with integral tools to effectively treat their clients.

Laurette Olson

- Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgments - Chapter 1. Introduction - Chapter 2. What Do We Know About the Daily Interactions Between Children with Mental Illness and Their Parents? - Chapter 3. Introducing the Parents and Children Participating in One Parent-Child Group on a Child Inpatient Psychiatric Unit - Chapter 4. One Parent-Child Activity Group: A Framework and Snapshots - Chapter 5. A Qualitative Research Study of One Parent-Child Activity Group - Chapter 6. Exploring What Was Missing in One Parent-Child Activity Group - Chapter 7. Parent-Child Activity Groups Reconsidered - Chapter 8. Engaging Psychiatrically Hospitalized Teens with Their Parents Through a Parent-Adolescent Activity Group - Chapter 9. When a Mother is Depressed: Supporting her Capacity to Participate in Co-Occupation with Her BabyA Case Study - Chapter 10. Closing Thoughts About Promoting Parent-Child Co-Occupation Through Parent-Child Activity Intervention - Index - Reference Notes Included