Facilitating Parents' Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Dr Jenny Brown is Director Emeritus at the Family Systems Institute and founder and Director of the Family Systems Practice and Parent Hope Project in Sydney, Australia. Her academic qualifications are from the University of Sydney (medical social work prize) and Columbia University (Deans award). Her PhD research (Social Science UNSW) explored parents’ experience of their child’s mental health treatment, forming this book’s basis. She is a clinical member and supervisor for the Australian Association of Family Therapy and, in 2018, received the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANJFT) award for distinguished contribution to family therapy in Australia. In 2022, she received the annual research award from the Bowen Centre for the Study of the Family in Washington DC. As well as publishing several articles in peer-reviewed journals about child and family mental health, she has written and edited books, including Growing Yourself Up (2012).