The PRIMERA Project – Parental Mental Health and Family-Focused Interventions
Duration: 39 mins
Publication Date: 20 Mar 2023
Next Review Date: 20 Mar 2026
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23289
Description
In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, Professor Sinéad McGilloway and Christine Mulligan provide valuable insight into the PRIMERA programme, which investigated how best to support young families experiencing parental mental illness. The PRIMERA project team won ACAMH’s prestigious Lionel Hersov Memorial Award in 2022.
Learning Objectives
1. How prevalent parental mental illness is.
2. What the provision of services is like for affected families.
3. How developed is the evidence for family-focussed practice in this area?
4. The Family Talk intervention programme – key findings and evaluation of the programme. 5. Implications of the findings for CAMH professionals, and for mental health professionals working with adult service users. 6. The barriers that could undermine the long-term sustainability of family-focussed practice. 7. The recommendations for policymakers. 8. What is next for the Family Talk intervention?