In this edition of Family Matters, I talk with Dr. Jenny Brown about how she helps parents think about children with mental health challenges. We’ll explore how parents’ work on themselves can help foster maturity and resilience in their children. Dr. Brown is the founder and director of The Family Systems Institute in Sydney, Australia.
The reciprocity between parents and their child’s mental health treatment systems, Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences, 14:2, 2020 Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts Any treatment may achieve some symptom relief for a child even if it does not address the underlying parental process. This can occur through anxiety…
Engaging with parents in adolescent mental health services, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, June 2020 doi: 10.1002/anzf.1409 Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts As a family therapy supervisor in the child and adolescent mental health field over some decades, it is common for the author to hear clinicians express the challenges of developing a…
“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 1 Findings Parent helplessness and hope invested in external treatment The longitudinal journey revealed changes across the course of parents’ treatment experience. A compelling ‘meta’ theme that emerged from the initial…
“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 2 In a matter of only ten to twelve weeks, parents experienced: starting at Redbank with its associated respite, relief and misgivings; ongoing involvement in regular family and parent sessions; and…
“Parents’ Experiences of Their Adolescent’s Mental Health Treatment: Helplessness or agency – based hope.” 2018 Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpt 3 The high and moderate hope parents all described ways their treatment involvement provided an opportunity to observe the way they were relating to their child and consider what wasn’t working:…
“We Don’t Need Your Help, But Will You Please Fix Our Children?” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) Vol.29 No.2 pp. 61-69. 2008. Jenny Brown. PhD Excerpts Without a systems view, problems in a child will be explained with linear cause and effect thinking. When parenting deficits are seen as primary contributors to a…
Growing up through the life cycle – these podcasts are deigned to prompt thinking about one’s own life adjustments as well as reflecting on the experiences of members of the broader family.
In this podcast Jenny Brown goes in to how to become an active observer and refrain from confrontations & saving any important conversations for meeting with family members 1 on 1.
