Factors that may Facilitate or Hinder a Family-Focus in the Treatment of Parents with a Mental Illness
Children with mentally ill parents are at risk of developing mental health problems themselves. To enhance early support for these children may prevent mental health problems from being transmitted from one generation to the next. The sample (N = 219) included health professionals in a large univers...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363479/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25814823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-013-9895-y |
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author | Lauritzen, Camilla Reedtz, Charlotte Van Doesum, Karin Martinussen, Monica |
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description | Children with mentally ill parents are at risk of developing mental health problems themselves. To enhance early support for these children may prevent mental health problems from being transmitted from one generation to the next. The sample (N = 219) included health professionals in a large university hospital, who responded to a web-based survey on the routines of the mental health services, attitudes within the workforce capacity, worker’s knowledge on the impact of parental mental illness on children, knowledge on legislation concerning children of patients, experience, expectations for possible outcomes of change in current clinical practice and demographic variables. A total of 56 % reported that they did not identify whether or not patients had children. There were no significant differences between the groups (identifiers and non-identifiers) except for the two scales measuring aspects of knowledge, i.e., Knowledge Children and Knowledge Legislation where workers who identified children had higher scores. The results also showed that younger workers with a medium level of education scored higher on Positive Attitudes. Furthermore, workers who reported to have more knowledge about children and the impact of mental illness on the parenting role were less concerned about a child-focussed approach interfering with the patient-therapist relation. |
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spelling | pubmed-43634792015-03-24 Factors that may Facilitate or Hinder a Family-Focus in the Treatment of Parents with a Mental Illness Lauritzen, Camilla Reedtz, Charlotte Van Doesum, Karin Martinussen, Monica J Child Fam Stud Original Paper Children with mentally ill parents are at risk of developing mental health problems themselves. To enhance early support for these children may prevent mental health problems from being transmitted from one generation to the next. The sample (N = 219) included health professionals in a large university hospital, who responded to a web-based survey on the routines of the mental health services, attitudes within the workforce capacity, worker’s knowledge on the impact of parental mental illness on children, knowledge on legislation concerning children of patients, experience, expectations for possible outcomes of change in current clinical practice and demographic variables. A total of 56 % reported that they did not identify whether or not patients had children. There were no significant differences between the groups (identifiers and non-identifiers) except for the two scales measuring aspects of knowledge, i.e., Knowledge Children and Knowledge Legislation where workers who identified children had higher scores. The results also showed that younger workers with a medium level of education scored higher on Positive Attitudes. Furthermore, workers who reported to have more knowledge about children and the impact of mental illness on the parenting role were less concerned about a child-focussed approach interfering with the patient-therapist relation. Springer US 2014-03-15 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4363479/ /pubmed/25814823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-013-9895-y Text en © The Author(s) 2014 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Lauritzen, Camilla Reedtz, Charlotte Van Doesum, Karin Martinussen, Monica Factors that may Facilitate or Hinder a Family-Focus in the Treatment of Parents with a Mental Illness |
title | Factors that may Facilitate or Hinder a Family-Focus in the Treatment of Parents with a Mental Illness |
title_full | Factors that may Facilitate or Hinder a Family-Focus in the Treatment of Parents with a Mental Illness |
title_fullStr | Factors that may Facilitate or Hinder a Family-Focus in the Treatment of Parents with a Mental Illness |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors that may Facilitate or Hinder a Family-Focus in the Treatment of Parents with a Mental Illness |
title_short | Factors that may Facilitate or Hinder a Family-Focus in the Treatment of Parents with a Mental Illness |
title_sort | factors that may facilitate or hinder a family-focus in the treatment of parents with a mental illness |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363479/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25814823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-013-9895-y |
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