Parenting Occupations and Purposes Framework. 

We conducted a scoping review to bring together occupational therapy understandings of the “doing” of parenting, and came up with the POP framework. While the framework needs further validation (stay tuned) using it to complement occupation-focussed models can help OTs discuss parenting with clients and identify concerns that could be addressed.

Allchin, B., Albermann, K., Blake-Holmes, K., Gatsou, L., Hine, R., van Doesum, K., & Nicholson, J. (2024). Sustaining efforts to improve family well-being with parents with mental ill health and substance (mis) use. Frontiers in Psychiatry15, 1376409.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1376409

Allchin, B., Isobel, S., 2024. Re-imagining the vulnerability and risk framing of parents with mental illness and their children. Frontiers in Public Health 12.. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1373603

Allchin, B., & Solantaus, T. (2022). Article Title: An evidence-based practice developed in-situ: Let's Talk about Children and a consolidation of its evidence base. Frontiers in psychiatry, 69  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.824241

Allchin, B., Weimand, B. M., O'Hanlon, B., & Goodyear, M. (2022). A Sustainability Model for Family-Focused Practice in Adult Mental Health Services. Frontiers in Psychiatry12https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.761889

Allchin, R., (2020), Exploring the implementation and sustainability of Let's Talk about Children - a model for family-focused practice in adult mental health services, Monash University, dissertation-thesis, https://doi.org/10.26180/14214686.v1

Allchin, B, Goodyear, M, O’Hanlon, B, Weimand, BM. (2020), Leadership perspectives on key elements influencing implementing a family‐focused intervention in mental health services. Journal of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing27(5),616–627. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12615

Allchin, B., O’Hanlon, B., Weimand, B.M., Boyer, F., Cripps, G., Gill, L., Paisley, B., Pietsch, S., Wynne, B., and Goodyear, M. (2020). An Explanatory Model of Factors Enabling Sustainability of Let’s Talk in an Adult Mental Health Service: a participatory case study. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 14, Article 48, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-020-00380-9

Allchin, B., O’Hanlon, B., Weimand, B.M. and Goodyear, M. (2020), Practitioners’ application of Let’s Talk about Children intervention in adult mental health services. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing29(5),899–911. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12724

Allchin, B., Weimand, B.M., O’Hanlon, B. and Goodyear, M. (2020), Continued capacity: Factors of importance for organizations to support continued Let's Talk practice – a mixed‐methods study. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 29(6), 1131–1143. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12754

Aunos, M., Spencer, M., Pacheco, L., & Pituch, E. (2022). This changes everything: a critical reflection on the impact of internalised ableist constructs on becoming a disabled mother. Disability & Society, 1-23.

Awram, R., Hancock, N., & Honey, A. (2017).  Balancing mothering and mental health recovery: The voices of mothers living with mental illness. Advances in Mental Health 15(2), 147-160. doi: 10.1080/18387357.2016.1255149

Beard, E., Honey, A., Hancock, N., Awram, R., Miceli, M., & Mayes, R. (2019) What roles do male partners play in the mothering experiences of women living with mental illness? A qualitative secondary analysis. BMC Psychiatry. doi.org/10.1186/s12888-019-2209-1. https://rdcu.be/bLN2W

Goodyear, M., Maybery, D., Reupert, A., Allchin, R., Fraser, C., Fernbacher, S., & Cuff, R. (2017). Thinking families: A study of the characteristics of the workforce that delivers family‐focussed practice. International journal of mental health nursing26(3), 238-248. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12293

Goodyear, M, Obradovic A, Allchin B, Cuff R, McCormick F & Cosgriff C (2015): Building capacity for cross-sectorial approaches to the care of families where a parent has a mental illness, Advances in Mental Health: Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention, 2015:13,(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/18387357.2015.1063972

Goodyear, M., Hill, T. L., Allchin, B., McCormick, F., Hine, R., Cuff, R., & O’Hanlon, B. (2015). Standards of practice for the adult mental health workforce: Meeting the needs of families where a parent has a mental illness. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 24(2), 169–180. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12120

Haines, A., MacKenzie, L., Honey, A., & Middleton, P. (2023). Occupations and balance during the transition to motherhood with a lifetime chronic illness: A scoping review examining cystic fibrosis, asthma, and type-1 diabetes. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 70.730-744. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1630.12899

Honey, A., Mayes, R., & Miceli, M. (2018). Mothering after child removal: Living under the rule of Greek Gods. Child and Family Social Work, 23, 417-426. doi: 10.1111/cfs.12432. Available at http://rdcu.be/Fvd0

Honey, A., Miceli, M., & Mayes, R. (2021). Living with mental illness and child removal. Advances in Mental Health, 19(2), 164-175. doi: 10.1080/18387357.2019.1614884

Honey, A., Peterson, J., O’Mara, V., & McGrath, M. (2024). Occupational therapy for parenting: Perspectives of parents with physical disability. Occupational Therapy International, 1-9.https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/4854903

Isobel, S., Allchin, B., Goodyear, M., & Gladstone, B. M. (2019). A narrative inquiry into global systems change to support families when a parent has a mental illness. Frontiers in psychiatry10, 310. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00310

Lim, Y. Z. G., Honey, A., & McGrath, M. (2022). The parenting occupations and purposes conceptual framework: A scoping review of 'doing' parenting [Review]. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 69(1), 98-111. https://doi.org/https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1440-1630.12778 

Llewellyn, G., McConnell, D., Honey, A., Mayes, R., & Russo, D. (2003). Promoting health and home safety for children of parents with intellectual disability: A randomised controlled trial. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 24(6), 405-431.

Llewellyn, G., McConnell, D., Russo, D., Mayes, R., & Honey, A. (2002). Home based programs for parents with learning difficulties: Lessons from practice.  Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(4), 341-353. 

Mayes, R., McConnell, D., Llewellyn, G., Russo, D., & Honey, A., (2000). Assessing the health status of parents with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 44(3&4), 383.

McConnell, D., Llewellyn, G., Mayes, R., Russo, D., & Honey, A. (2003). Developmental profiles of children born to mothers with intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 28(2), 122-134.

McGrath, M., Honey, A., Codd, Y., Rider , J., Morrison, R., Abizeid, C., Zein, H., Tan, H.L., Sim, S.S., Wan Yunus, F., Romli, M., & Pituch, E. (early online). Every parent matters: The value of a parent-centric approach to supporting parenting occupations and roles. British Journal of Occupational Therapyhttps://doi.org/10.1177/03080226241241221

Pastor‐Bédard, N., Pituch, E., Lamata, E., Grondin, M., & Bottari, C. (2022). Parenting with a physical disability: A scoping review of assessment methods. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal.

Pituch, E., Bindiu, A. M., Grondin, M., & Bottari, C. (2022). Parenting with a physical disability and cognitive impairments: a scoping review of the needs expressed by parents. Disability and Rehabilitation, 44(13), 3285-3300.

Rider, J., & Selim, J. (2022). Supporting the role of parenting for people with Multiple Sclerosis: A guide for clinicians. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 103(9), 1891-1894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2022.05.010


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