Coping in Family Caregiving for Relatives with Mental Illness: Family Responsiveness and Self-Nurturing

Coping with stigma by association and family burden among family members of people with mental illness.

In this study, we explored stigma by association, family burden, and their impact on the family members of people with mental illness. We also studied the ways in which family members coped with these phenomena. We conducted semistructured interviews with 23 immediate family members of people with mental illness. Participants reported various experiences of stigma by association and family burd...

Family caregiving during healthy aging and illness.

mediciNe & HealtH/RHode islaNd family Caregivers are inextriCably nested in health care. Upon return home after an important physician visit, a patient may encounter questions from a spouse or other loved one. For many patients, family members provide direct accompaniment to the physician and actively participate in informed consent and other clinical decisions; for some, the caregiver is a des...

The Comparison of Adaptability and Domestic Violence Among Family With Chornic and Mental Illness

The purpose of this study was to determine the rate difference of adaptability and domestic violence in families with children with mental illness chronic and regular in Borujen City. The statistic population of the study included all families with children who have chronic mental illness admitted to daycare centers (girls and boys) in Borujen City including 180 people that among them 30 girls ...

Family burden and family stigma in major mental illness.

Mental illnesses are unique in their etiological attributions. They are categories of disorder treated by medical means but viewed as induced by the behavior of others. Despite increasing evidence of diathesis, on the one hand, and on the other, a wide range of nonfamilial environmental stressors that may trigger decompensation (Day et at., 1987), families continue to be viewed as primary toxic...

A Family Tree Filled with Mental Illness