Family focused interventions that address parental domestic violence and abuse, mental ill-health, and substance misuse

Family focused, psychosocial, preventive interventions targeting parents/carers at risk of, or experiencing, parental domestic violence and abuse, mental ill-health, and substance misuse were assessed in a systematic review (Allen et al., 2022, 37 studies, studies were included if they measured impacts on two or more of these issues). Results showed that:

• none had a combined positive impact on all three outcomes and only one study demonstrated a combined positive impact on two outcomes.
• The analysis also found studies that had combined adverse, mixed, or singular impacts.