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Time to meet the parents
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.03.06, 2006, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A panel give their opinions on the case of a man with Huntington's chorea, degenerative mental health problem, who lives with elderly parents. Despite their difficulties, the parents still resist help.
Listening to older adult parents of adult children with mental illness
- Author:
- SMITH Judith R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 15(2), March 2012, pp.126-140.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Current knowledge about the conflicts of older parents with dependent children is underdeveloped. This qualitative study investigated the experience of women age 55 and older who were parents caring for adult children with mental illness. All participants were from Rockland County, New York. Analysis of the women's stories about parenting in later life suggested that they had two sets of feelings – wanting to be free from the responsibility of caregiving and feeling responsible to continue the support and protection of their adult vulnerable children. The women's conflicts were considerable and were founded in the ideational themes of the narratives, as well as the structure of how the narratives were spoken. A discussion details the relevance of the theory of ambivalence for clinical practice when working with older women who are caregivers for their adult dependent children.
Caring for children of parents with mental health problems - a venture into historical and cultural processes in Europe
- Authors:
- SOLANTAUS Tytti, PURAS Dainius
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 12(4), November 2010, pp.27-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the European initiative Work Package 5 (WP5), a part of the CAMHEE programme, which was designed to bring children and families with parental mental illness onto the European agenda. Parental mental health problems are a major risk for children’s adverse development. Intergenerational mental health issues often leads to social marginalisation and exclusion, which constitutes a serious social problem. WP5 participants included Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Lithuania, Norway and Romania. The WP5 emphasised that it is important for every country to learn what the legal, human rights, and service and life situation is for these children and families and to take preventive and promotion action. The paper suggests that, to avoid further stigmatisation, awareness campaigns and training of professionals should capitalise on resilience and support for children and parenting rather than on risks. Psychiatric services for adults should respond to the needs for care and support of the patients' children. Finally, changes in society are needed, including redirecting legislation from restrictive measures towards promotion and prevention.
Cut off from help
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- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.09.06, 2006, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In this case study the parents of a man with mental health problems fail to involve services in his care, but eventually a crisis occurs. A panel give their assessment of the case.
Childhood maltreatment among Norwegian drug abusers in treatment
- Authors:
- RAVNDAL Edle, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 10(2), April 2001, pp.142-147.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reports on the investigation of the correlation between the European Addiction Severity Index and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire among 102 Norwegian drug abusers admitted to treatment. The aim of the study is to explore how different types and levels of childhood trauma and social and psychiatric factors, medical situation and experienced family history are interrelated. Concludes that more research, and especially prospective studies, is needed to clarify the importance of parents' substance abuse and psychiatric problems in childhood/adolescence compared with trauma in the client's childhood and the client's current psychiatric status.
Recall of childhood neglect and physical abuse as differential predictors of current psychological functioning
- Authors:
- GAUTHIER Lisa, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 20(7), July 1996, pp.549-559.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The differential effects of neglect and physical abuse on psychological functioning are not well understood. Examines the relationship between reported neglect and physical abuse and symptomatology and attachment styles in a sample of male and female undergraduates. In contrast to physical abuse, which must involve some parental involvement in a child's life, neglect is characterised by a lack of parent-child interaction. As such, it was hypothesised that childhood neglect would be more predictive of symptomatology and dysfunctional attachment styles than would physical abuse. Results confirmed the expected relationship between neglect and more severe psychological problems and anxious attachment styles. Implications of these results point to the need to focus both empirically and theoretically on neglect and physical abuse as potentially separate moderators of psychosocial functioning.
Comparative psychopathology of women who experienced intra-familial versus extra-familial sexual abuse
- Authors:
- GREGORY-BILLS Therese, RHODEBACK Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 19(2), February 1995, pp.177-189.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Examines whether the relative/nonrelative issue is significant to the impact of sexual victimization experiences in a sample of women in the US. Methodological considerations are highlighted and implications for treatment and research are addressed.
Associations between behaviours that challenge in adults with intellectual disability, parental perceptions and parental mental health
- Authors:
- WAITE Jane, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56(4), 2017, pp.408-430.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Objectives: This study examined parental perceptions of behaviours that challenge (CB) in their adult children with intellectual disability (ID), and explored whether perceptions mediated associations between CB and parental psychological distress. Design: A within-group correlational design was employed. Methods: Sixty-five parents reported on individuals with genetic syndromes and ID who had chronic CB. Parents completed the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R) adapted to measure perceptions of self-injury, aggression or property destruction, alongside assessments of parental locus of control, attributions about behaviour, parental psychological distress, and CB. Results: A high proportion of parents evidenced anxiety and depression at clinically significant levels (56.9% and 30.8%, respectively). Contrary to predictions, psychological distress was not significantly associated with CB. The perception that the adult with ID exerted control over the parent's life mediated the association between CB and parental psychological distress. Few parents endorsed operant reinforcement as a cause of CB (< 10%). Conclusions: The high levels of psychological distress in parents is notable and of concern. Further research should consider the reasons why parents have causal attributions that might be inconsistent with contemporary interventions. Practitioner points: 1) Parents experience high levels of psychological distress while supporting adults with ID who engage in chronic behaviours that challenge; 2) A stronger belief that the adult with ID exerts control over the parent's life may mediate an association between CB exhibited by the individual with ID and parental psychological distress; 3) Few parents endorsed operant reinforcement as a cause of behaviours that challenge. (Publisher abstract)
Harmed? harmful? experiencing abusive adult children with mental disorder over the life course
- Authors:
- BAND-WINTERSTEIN Tova, AVIELI Hila, SMELOY Yael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 31(15), 2016, pp.185-194.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Older parents of an adult child coping with a mental disorder that is expressed by violent deviant behaviour face significant parenting challenges. The purpose of this article is to explore the ways older parents exposed to abuse by their adult children with mental disorder (ACMD) perceived their child’s violent deviant behaviour along the life course. In a qualitative-phenomenological study, 16 parents aged 58 to 90 were interviewed in depth. Three major themes emerged: (a) ongoing total care for the child’s needs along the life course, (b) constructions and perceptions of the child through the years—Parents perceived their children over two continua, reflecting their experience of the child’s deviant behaviour: the child as more harmed versus more harmful, the child as normative versus pathological—and (c) the parent’s emotional world toward the harmed–harmful child. The findings enable a deeper understanding of the various ways in which parents cope with living with deviant behaviours of their ACMD. Hence, this study can serve as a framework for developing tailored and differential intervention methods. (Edited publisher abstract)
Impact of mid-life symptoms of alcoholism on the health and wellbeing of aging parents of adults with disabilities
- Authors:
- GHOSHA Subharati, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 59(1), 2016, pp.56-72.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The study examined the effect of adult children’s disability on parents’ physical health in later life and the extent to which parents’ symptoms of alcoholism in mid-life moderates the link between children’s disability and later life parental health. Analyses are based on data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The analytic sample included parents of children with developmental disabilities (n = 145) or mental health problems (n = 200) and 2,432 parents of unaffected children. The results showed that the negative health consequences in later life of having a child with a developmental disability were greater for those who showed more symptoms of alcoholism in mid-life. However, symptoms of alcoholism in mid-life did not significantly moderate the impact of an adult child’s mental health problems on parents’ later life physical health. The findings suggest a potential area where gerontological social workers could intervene, given the negative impact of symptoms of alcoholism on the health of ageing parents of children with a disability who may be significantly more susceptible to the negative health impacts of alcohol compared to their younger counterparts. (Edited publisher abstract)