Children's Concerns about their Parents' Health and Well-being: Researching with ChildLine Scotland

This paper reports on collaborative research conducted with ChildLine Scotland, a free, confidential, telephone counselling service, using their database. We focussed on children’s calls about parental health and well‐being and how this affected their own lives. Children’s concerns emerged within mu...

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Published in:Children & society 2012-09, Vol.26 (5), p.381-393
Main Authors: Backett-Milburn, Kathryn, Jackson, Sharon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Alcohol Abuse
Child. Socialization
ChildLine
Children
Collaboration
Confidentiality
Cooperation
Counseling
Counseling Services
Depression (Psychology)
Domestic violence
Drug Abuse
Drugs
Family relations
Family Relationship
Family Violence
Foreign Countries
Grief
Health
Health Care Services Policy
Health Problems
helplines
Mental Disorders
Mental Health
Parent Child Relationship
Parents
Scotland
Services
Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations
Social problems and social policy. Social work
Social Welfare
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Telecommunications
Well Being
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Summary:This paper reports on collaborative research conducted with ChildLine Scotland, a free, confidential, telephone counselling service, using their database. We focussed on children’s calls about parental health and well‐being and how this affected their own lives. Children’s concerns emerged within multi‐layered calls in which they discussed multiple issues and problems in their lives such as alcohol misuse, drug misuse, domestic violence, family relationships, depression, mental health problems and bereavement. We discuss how children were making sense of these experiences; how they were trying to get by in difficult family circumstances; whose help they valued; and conclude with implications for policy and practice.
ISSN:0951-0605
1099-0860
DOI:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00349.x