Parenting

The goal of this guide is to give you a better understanding of your mental health and its effects on your child. It will provide guidance to examine the impact of mental health issues on your family, including how to recognize whether your child has a mental health issue.

This document can give you tools and tips to help your child cope. Even though it may be difficult to help your children cope, you have the ability to make thoughtful decisions about how you want to help them, and this, in turn, will foster much resilience in your children.

This toolkit provides evidence-based strategies to help parents understand and participate in meaningful family leisure. It includes research, worksheets, and activities to overcome barriers and improve family relationships.

A Special Needs Trust can be created by a parent or guardian to benefit a person with a disability upon the death of a parent, allowing consumers to benefit from the trust while continuing to receive public benefits. This document was developed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law with support from the TU Collaborative.

This addendum to Section I of the training program on Keeping Your Children and Getting Them Back includes key handouts on child welfare and custody issues, positive parenting, child resilience, parenting resources, and additional resources for parents.

This trainers’ guide was developed by consultants to the Temple University Collaborative and offers a comprehensive overview for training mental health personnel to assist consumers with psychiatric disabilities in understanding child abuse laws and custody issues.

This manual offers a detailed guideline for trainers developing programs to assist consumers with psychiatric disabilities in improving their parenting skills, understanding child custody issues, and either avoiding or regaining custody of their children. It includes curriculum, PowerPoints, and exercises.

This fact sheet provides an overview of national and state foster care services and how they interact with parents with mental illnesses who have been denied custody of their children. It offers suggestions for parents and others interacting with foster care providers.

This worksheet allows mental health personnel to make a comprehensive assessment of particular parents child custody arrangement, which may be complicated, as an aide to working with parents to improve parenting skills and prevent loss of custody.

Designed for parents and their supporters, this fact sheet offers tips for navigating the child welfare and legal systems, particularly for parents with psychiatric disabilities facing custody challenges and system discrimination.