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- Title
MOTHERS CARING FOR AN ADULT CHILD WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA.
- Authors
Greenberg, Jan Steven; Greenley, James R.; McKee, David; Brown, Roger; Griffin-Francell, Claire
- Abstract
The article examines the effects of the subjective burden of caring for an adult schizophrenic child on the health of the mother. In recent years, research on family caregiving has gone beyond the purely descriptive to investigate the physical and psychological consequences of caregiving. The importance of understanding such impacts on families of persons with mental illness is increasing as several changes in treatment systems and society in general lead more families, and in particular parents, to assume caregiving responsibilities for their adult children with mental illness. This paper focuses on how subjective burdens associated with caregiving relate to physical health. In studies of families of persons with mental illness, subjective burden is defined in terms of the family's feelings about providing care and the emotional strains, including feelings of stigma, loss, fear, and worry, that arise in coping with mental illness. Fear that one's child with mental illness will harm oneself or others is a second major type of distress experienced by families of persons with mental illness.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S health; PARENTS of children with disabilities; CHILDREN with disabilities; MEDICAL personnel; MENTAL health; PARENT-child legal relationship
- Publication
Family Relations, 1993, Vol 42, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/585456