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- Title
El patiment de les famílies amb malalts mentals.
- Authors
Vidal, Antoni
- Abstract
Mental illness hinders the adaptation of the ill person to his or her own environment. The living of the closest relatives with the sick person can be affected as they are socially and labourally limited when this living carries a dedication and assistance burden. The new social frame, the social changes and the new family components should be considered when it comes to determining who are the closest relatives that take care of the sick ones, sometimes as opposed to the relatives that the law regulates. Here a case is presented that allows to see the different situation in which the closest relative live the mental illness, and finally the article deals with the difficulty to live with the mentaly ill with the limited resources of the administration.
- Subjects
SOCIAL conditions of people with mental illness; FAMILY relationships of people with mental illness; PEOPLE with mental illness; CARE of people; MENTAL illness; RELATIVES; FAMILIES
- Publication
Revista de Treball Social, 2006, Issue 178, p71
- ISSN
0212-7210
- Publication type
Article