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Creating The Organizational Capacity To Serve Families With Parental Mental Illness: The Implementation Of Family Options, Kathleen Biebel, Katherine Woolsey Feb 2011

Creating The Organizational Capacity To Serve Families With Parental Mental Illness: The Implementation Of Family Options, Kathleen Biebel, Katherine Woolsey

Kathleen Biebel

Summary: The purpose of this presentation is to present preliminary findings describing the organizational context of a traditionally adult-serving community mental health program, Employment Options, Inc., as they implement a family-centered, strengths-based intervention for families living with parental mental illness.


Parent Response To Adolescent Self-Injurious Behavior: A Collective Case Study, Kylee Sue Tuls Jan 2011

Parent Response To Adolescent Self-Injurious Behavior: A Collective Case Study, Kylee Sue Tuls

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Research in the area of self-injurious behaviors and the family context is still emerging. The majority of research available is quantitative in nature. The limited qualitative research available in this area has been conducted outside of the United States. A collective case study was conducted with four parents with an adolescent that had been admitted to an inpatient psychiatric residential facility with a presenting problem of self-injurious behavior. The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth, qualitative understanding of the parent perspective and comprehension of adolescent self-injurious behavior including the parents' ideas on how the parent-child relationship or …