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

Kathryn Backett-Milburn; Sharon Jackson

doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00349.x

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

Kathryn Backett-Milburn
, Sharon Jackson

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	381-393
Number of pages	13
Journal	Children & Society
Volume	26
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00349.x
Publication status	Published - Sept 2012

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

SAFETY
FAMILIES
RISK
LIFE
HOME
parents
well-being
helplines
children
ChildLine
health

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