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Strapline: Camille project work with children of "mentally ill" parents: "early tracing and prophylactic measures"
Dear Dr Baldacchino
I am writing to you as the
main contact for the "Camille" project, a piece of collaborative work
between NHS Fife and Dundee University, with European funding. To ask
for further information. Allan Burns, Chair of the Fife health board told me about this project today, when we chatted at lunch time during the board meeting in Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline
And so I did an internet search and came up with this description on the Middlesex University website:
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/our-
"The main objective of the CAMILLE project is to qualify and promote
inter-professional and cross-sectional efforts concerning exposed
children and adolescents of mentally ill parents and their families in
order to initiate early tracing and prophylactic measures, and promoting
physical, psychosocial and mental health in general. The aim is to
prevent the rise of children's or adolescent's psychosocial symptoms." bolding is mine
Can you please explain in more detail about the phrase "early tracing and prophylactic measures"?
I
would appreciate any information that you can give me about the Camille
Project. I cannot find much detail about it from the Dundee
University website or from the Playfield Institute whose staff seem to
also be partners eg Dr Wendy Simpson:
http://medicine.dundee.ac.uk/ research-assistants-0
"With CARES, Wendy is working on the EU funded CAMILLE study – Empowerment of children and adolescents of mentally ill parents through training of professionals"
http://medicine.dundee.ac.uk/
"With CARES, Wendy is working on the EU funded CAMILLE study – Empowerment of children and adolescents of mentally ill parents through training of professionals"
For your information, I was
a youth and children's worker in communities for over 20 years (I'm now
62) and am a qualified community worker and FE lecturer, care subjects
(postgraduate awards), a reflective practitioner. Community work was
always about empowerment and lifelong learning. This meant encouraging
resilience, independent thinking and facilitating learning. Alongside
people. Level playing fields.
I am a psychiatric survivor and have recovered from "mental illness" on 3 separate occasions in my life, and have helped family members do the same. I did this personally by tapering the psychotropic drugs, under my own strength, without the support of psychiatrists.
I am a psychiatric survivor and have recovered from "mental illness" on 3 separate occasions in my life, and have helped family members do the same. I did this personally by tapering the psychotropic drugs, under my own strength, without the support of psychiatrists.
I am now a mental health
writer, activist and campaigner, and will put this Email in a blog post
for others to see. The psychiatric drugging of children and young
people, who are under the age of capacity, very much concerns me. I did
not like swallowing psychotropic drugs. They took away my agency and
caused serious side effects in the short term. I know that in the
longer term these drugs cause physical illness and chronicity. Giving
such powerful drugs to children with developing brains, to my mind, is a
step too far.
I look forward to hearing from you, and receiving information about the Camille project and Fife's part in this.
Yours sincerely,
Chrys Muirhead (Mrs)
cc Wendy Simpson, Graham Buchanan, Graham Monteith, Paul Hawkins, Allan Burns, Valerie Muir"