Parental Conflict and Parental Mental Illness – Impact on children they care for

Charges will apply to this course. Please refer to our charging & cancellation policy for further information on enrollment fees, non-attendance and cancellation charges. Any queries can be directed to the BSCP training mailbox:

bscptrainingteam@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

This course will consider the impact that both mental illness and parental conflict can have on children. It will help practitioners understand more about how mental health difficulties may be made worse by parental conflict and vice versa which may mean that children are at risk of poor outcomes for their health and education. 

The course aims to -

• Provide a background theories, information and local and national context  

• To improve knowledge to facilitate care and support to families 

• To facilitate safe practice to enable to be protected from harm.  

• To provide resources to help practitioners to ‘think family’ 

• To look at case studies which demonstrate the impact of parental conflict and mental illness. 

• To promote multi agency discussions and relationships. 

The workshop will include presentation, group work and inter-active exercises. It emphasises the voice of the child to encourage practitioners understanding of how adult behaviours can impact on children.  

The course will be co-delivered by Oxford Health Safeguarding practitioners and Megan Beasley - Lead Practitioner Reducing Parental Conflict, Buckinghamshire Childrens Services.

Oxford health provide mental health services to both adults and children in Buckinghamshire.