Parental Psychiatric Disorder. Distressed Parents and their Families.

Parental Psychiatric Disorder. Distressed Parents and their Families. Edited by M Gopfert, J Webster, and M Seeman. (Pp 358; £23.95 paperback.) Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-521-45892-7 . One of the most important things about this book is its existence. For over 30 years there has been systematic evidence about the links between mental health in parents and children and yet this is still inadequately reflected in service structure or function. Here there is a genuine attempt to draw all the different threads together in a constructive fashion. There is …