{"title":"Demolition and reconstruction in the family justice regime: what can be salvaged for children whose parents separate and divorce?","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the needs for children coming into contact with the family justice system to receive impartial information, to have a voice in proceedings if they so wish, and to receive support during the course of proceedings. It examines these issues in the context of fundamental changes in the system. The story underlying this chapter is one where the old regime of family justice administering private family law has been dismantled by radical measures introduced by the Coalition government between 2010 and 2015. The first part outlines the development of these measures. The second part focuses on the new policy framework based on what has been termed the Child Arrangements Programme (CAP), which replaces the old regime.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124524705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barriers obstructing a preventive mental health approach","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers some barriers which need to be overcome in order to implement early intervention when children are facing critical family change. It begins by explaining marketization as it applies to children's access to services. It then discusses the shortcomings in Whitehall's capacity to view the mental health needs of children and their families as a whole. These include policy making that is short-termist, reactive, and uncoordinated; more reward for ministers and civil servants in ‘rising to the occasion’ than preventing such occasions arising in the first place; and most government responses are vertical (i.e. carried out in single departments) when most the key problems faced by government are horizontal (i.e. affect a number of different departments). The chapter then covers how to overcome shortcomings in established professional modes of thinking.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116257974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hearing the voice of the child: messages from research that expose gaps between theory, principle and reality","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447345947.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter draws attention to the developing field of policy and practice-related research which seeks to take account of the views and experiences of children, with a focus on parental breakdown and separation. The overall research into a wide range of children's life experiences is developing fast, representing something of a cultural shift since the 1970s. Even before then, certain pioneering researchers, such as Royston Lambert and Spencer Millham, in their research in the 1960s for the Public Schools Commission, sought to sample the views of children. This led on to a number of other studies concerned with listening to children in educational and other professional services contexts. The chapter considers research conducted in the 1990s and early 2000s, before the full impact of modern information technology had been felt and prior to the availability of smart phones for children.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125892128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The crisis model of preventive mental health and its potential application for support services for children coping with parental separation","authors":"M. Murch","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447345947.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the development of a conceptual framework modelled on Caplanian Community Mental Health principles, an approach which offers a theoretical basis for early support for children and families undergoing stressful critical life experiences. It first outlines the key elements of the crisis model of mental health, briefly explaining its development in the period following the Second World War. It then summarizes the related practice of short-term crisis intervention, which can be used by various services offering support to children as they adapt socially and psychologically to challenges posed by stressful life-changing events — in this instance, parental conflict and separation. The chapter concludes by speculating as to why such a preventive approach has not caught on in the UK despite mounting evidence of the long-term risks to young people's mental health and wellbeing resulting from the breakdown of parental relationships.","PeriodicalId":168925,"journal":{"name":"Supporting Children When Parents Separate","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128695449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}