Vie affective,désir d’enfant et parentalité chez les personnes avec schizophrénie

While many people with schizophrenia consider intimate relationships and parenting as central parts of their lives deeply affecting well-being and recovery, others report multiple challenges in these domains (e.g. stigma, social isolation, low self-esteem, emotional dysregulation, sexual dysfunctions, separation/divorce and domestic violence, low treatment adherence, perinatal complications, parenting difficulties, alteration of the quality of early parent-infant interactions, interruptions to the parenting role and custody loss). However, these domains are often overlooked in routine clinical practice and in psychiatric rehabilitation. It is therefore crucial to discuss these topics more systematically (e.g., desire to become involved in a relationship or to become a parent, representation of self as a prospective partner, parent or future parent, sexual dysfunctions, family planning) to improve patients’ outcome, well-being, and quality of life. In addition to the existing service provision, this paper presents discussions of individual and group-based psychiatric rehabilitation interventions (e.g., informed decision-making and shared-risk taking, group cognitive behavior therapy, metacognitively oriented psychoeducation) that were developed to improve outcomes for patients, infants, and relatives.     

Predictors of Parent Engagement Based on Child Care Providers’ Perspectives

Objective

Determine the predictors of child care providers’ parent engagement regarding child nutrition in child care centers (CCCs) and family child care homes (FCCHs).

Parent support programmes and policies in the Caribbean

ABSTRACT

The authors, through a consultancy with the Caribbean Child Development Centre, the University of the West Indies Open Campus, sought to identify comprehensive parent support programmes and policies in the healthcare sector in non-Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries. As mapping researchers, the authors were contracted to map policies and programmes in the healthcare sector whose aims were to support both family wellbeing and children’s healthy development. A review of the existing literature about parenting practices and parenting support programming in the Caribbean was conducted. A catalogue of existing programmes and policies in non-Spanish speaking Caribbean countries was compiled using relevant documents and interviews from primary sources involved in the programmes and the development and implementation of policies. This article outlines the trends identified during the interviews and mapping exercise.