Overview

Editors:

Philip Darbyshire
University of South Australia

Debra Jackson
University of Western Sydney

The range of topics this special issue demonstrates the diversity and currency of approaches to child and family health, including: chronic illness, disability, the role of fathers in providing care, and children's experiences of parents with a mental illness.

Within the family context, this volume considers violence, eating disorders, family support issues and immigration detention.

Within the community context, this volume considers issues such as emergency contraception, childhood obesity, the value of nurse-led clinics, health assessment of primary school children and the central role of women in building systems and health capacity for children, families and communities, narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas with respect to health opportunities and outcomes.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Contemporary Issues in Child And Family Health
Sandra Speedy

Preface

Children, Families and Nursing: Spotlights, Shadows and Places in Between
Philip Darbyshire and Debra Jackson

Child Health

Guest Editorial
'We Are Just Kids': Children Within Healthcare Relationships
Annette Dickinson

'Sometime They Run Away, That's How Scared They Feel': The Paediatric Hospitalisation Experiences of Indigenous Families From Remote Areas of Australia
Laura Tanner, Kendall Agius and Philip Darbyshire

'I Know My Body, I've Lived In It All My Life': Therapy, Surgery and Remediation Experiences Of Young People With Disabilities
Gillian Bricher and Philip Darbyshire

Father's Struggling For Relevance in the Care of Their Terminally Ill Child
Tom Laws

Development and Evaluation of an Intensive Intervention Program for Children With a Chronic Health Condition: A Pilot Study
Debra Creedy, Dianne Collis, Tracey Ludlow, Shelli Cosgrove, Kym Houston, David Irvine, Jenny Fraser and Susan Moloney

Children of the 21st Century: Slipping Through the Net
Jane Williams and Colin Holmes

Addressing the Needs of Children of Parents With a Mental Illness: Current Approaches
Kim Foster, Louise O'Brien and Margaret McAllister

Family Health Care

Guest Editorial
'A Last Resort?' Impacts of the Australian Government's Immigrant Detention Policy Breaching the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
Linda Shields

Family Violence: Walking the Tight Rope Between Maternal Alienation and Child Safety
Denise Wilson, Karen McBride-Henry and Annette Huntington

Raising Families: Urban Women's Experiences of Requiring Support
Debra Jackson, Judy Mannix, Pat Faga and Donna Gillies

Managing Family Life While Studying: Single Mothers' Lived Experience of Being Students in a Nursing Program
Olayide Ogunsiji and Lesley Wilkes

Eating disorders: A qualitative Analysis of the Parents' Journey
Barbara Beale, Rose McMaster and Sharon Hillege

Maternal and Child Health Nurses: A Vital Link to the Community For Primiparae Over the Age of 35
Mary Carolan

Child and Family Health in the Community

Guest Editorial
Child and Family Health Nursing and Early Intervention
Gay Edgecombe

Obesity in Pre-School Children: Issues and Challenges for Community Based Child Health Nurses
Annette Huntington and Anne McKey

Emergency Contraception: A Qualitative Study of Young Women's Experiences
Helen Calabretto

Demonstrating Outcomes in a Nurse-Led Clinic: How Primary Health Care Nurses Make a Difference to Children and Their Families
Jill Clendon

Development of the School Entrant Health Questionnaire for Assessing Primary School Children Ages 5-7
Kay C Avant, Gay Edgecombe, Patrick Griffin and Karen Corneille

Volunteerism: 'Community Mothers' in Action
Jill Downie, Kim Clark and Katy Clementson

Current State of Knowledge on Child-To-Mother Violence: A Literature Review
Michel Stewart, Debra Jackson, Judy Mannix, Lesley Wilkes and Karin Lines

Epilogue

Using A Strengths' Approach to Understand Resilience and Build Health Capacity in Families
Debra Jackson and Philip Darbyshire