mental health

Mothers in care proceedings more likely to have pre-existing mental health problems, study finds

More than half of pregnant women in Wales at risk of having babies taken into care experienced mental health problems before they gave birth, a new study shows. Read the full article on this link to Children...

June 18, 2020
Disability

1000 Families Study, a UK multiwave cohort investigating the well-being of families of children with intellectual disabilities: cohort profile

Purpose The 1000 Families Study is a large, UK-based, cohort of families of children with intellectual disability (ID). The main use of the cohort data will be to describe and explore correlates of the well...

June 4, 2020
DisabilityNews

‘Brink of collapse’: parents of disabled children buckling under 24-hour care

Parents of severely disabled children, are the “forgotten families on the brink of collapse” and are warning that they urgently need support as they are at the point of burnout. Families with vulnerable...

May 14, 2020

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