How Mental Illness Impacts Families(Guests: Dr. Jared Pingleton, Dr. Don Graber, Dr. Ricardo Whyte) Mental illness can take a variety of forms, such as anxiety, depression and phobias—but it’s often misunderstood or goes untreated. Experts compassionately discuss the medical, psychological, ...
Thus, the burden of caring for patients with mental illnesses falls to the family and significant others, ultimately leading to psychosocial impacts with impaired community integration of both patient and carers. The aim of the study was to determine the psychosocial impacts and coping strategies of...
It is common for new parents to experience spikes in stress. Families with low income are at particularly high risk for developing sleep-related problems, and in turn, experiencing the negative effects associated with poor sleep due to excessive stress in their environment [2]. “Accessibility is...
In families living in settings of chronic adversity, such as war zones and refugee camps—the focus of my own research—children may learn that the world is profoundly unsafe despite parental warmth and responsiveness. Critically, though, warm and nurturing parenting, even i...
The positive impact consisted of five possible benefits and negative impact consisted of eight potential problems. Participants were asked to rate how well each item applied to them on a 6-point Likert scale (0 = did not apply to me at all, 5 = applied to me very much). The average ...
Effects on other family members:Given howemotionally drainingit can be to deal with the abusive behavior of a narcissistic person, often nobody else (e.g., spouse, relatives) can meet the needs of the child for a safe, stable, validating, and healthy family environment. ...
In an adaptation of Belsky’s (1984) model of parenting, it has been posited that a combination of parent characteristics, child characteristics, and family social environment impact parenting in early childhood (Taraban & Shaw, 2018). Among families of young Autistic children, additional parenting...
As a result, some researchers suggested that a significant limitation in the literature is the lack of “articulation and documentation of how ethnicity and culture play a role in the treatment process and how interventions may need to be adapted or tailored to meet the needs of diverse families...
As such, it is especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, that practitioners working with persons with SMI and/or their families intervene to prevent family conflict and violence and to otherwise improve relationship quality. In this article, we summarize the two primary explanations recently...
Our aim was to understand how the key mechanisms associated with the delivery of interventions that include diversion as a component interact with contextual influences, and with one another, to explain the successes, failures and partial successes of diversion programmes as an intervention to improve...