Preface; Part I. Fundamental Issues: 1. Towards the development of a conceptual framework; 2. What we want from mental health professionals: 'telling it like it is'; 3. Parental mental illness: estimating prevalence to inform policy and practice; 4. The effect of parents' psychiatric disorder on children's attachment: theory and cases; 5. Assessing the economic costs of parental mental illness; 6. Stigma and families where a parent has a mental illness; Part II. Comprehensive Assessment: 7. Assessment and formulation of parenting; 8. Assessment of parents for the court; 9. Thinking about children of parents with mental illnesses as a form of intergenerational practice; 10. Parental diagnosis and children's outcomes; Part III. Specific Disorders: The Impact on Children, Parenting and Family Relationships: 11. Schizophrenia and motherhood; 12. The impact of parental depression on children; 13. Parents with anxiety disorders; 14. Children of alcohol and other drug abusing parents; 15. Mothers with eating disorders and their children; 16. Parenting and borderline personality disorder; 17. Working with parental personality disorder: key issues for mental health professionals and services; 18. Parenting, immigration status, and mental health; Part IV. Child, Parent and Family Interventions: 19. Helping children understand their parent's mental illness; 20. Psychopharmacology and motherhood; 21. Enhancing depressed mothers' sensitivity; 22. Working with parents who have a psychiatric disorder; 23. Grandparents as primary caregivers; 24. Interventions for families when a parent has depression; 25. Creating positive parenting experiences: family options; Part V. Building Workforce, Organisational and Community Capacity: 26. Parental psychiatric disorder: translating the family model into practice change; 27. E-learning professional development resources for families where a parent has a mental illness; 28. How can we make the psychiatric workforce more family focused?; 29. A personal recovery model for parents with mental health problems; 30. Helping parents with mental illness: the value of professional partnerships fighting de facto bias in the American courts; 31. Preventing unnecessary loss of child custody; 32. Shifting the intervention paradigm from individuals to families living with parental mental illness; 33. The policy context and change for families living with parental mental illness; 34. Are we there yet? Developing a conceptual framework for understanding families where a parent has a mental illness; Index.