Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Mental Health Professionals’ Perceptions of Parenting by Service Users with Psychosis

Bibliographic Data

ID8908556
AuthorsJennifer Strand (University of Gothenburg, corresponding author), Lisa Rudolfsson (0000-0001-8600-881X, University of Gothenburg)
Year2020
Volume56
Issue6
Pages1014-1022
Publication date2020-01-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunity Mental Health Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-3853 • E-ISSN: 1573-2789
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s10597-020-00548-0
PMID31925655
OpenAlexW2998860439
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited35

Despite extensive needs, interventions for parents with psychosis are rarely offered, poorly described, and vary between offering instrumental and emotional support. To improve the design of interventions offered to families with parental psychosis, more knowledge is needed. The aim of this study was to gain knowledge about mental health professionals' perceptions of parenting by patients with psychosis. Eleven mental health professionals educated in family interventions were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide and the material underwent inductive thematic analysis. Results showed that the professionals described the patients parenting as characterized by difficulties in providing security and predictability, taking part in and organizing family life, and to focus on the child's needs. The difficulties were described as related to specific symptoms such as voice hearing, cognitive impairments, anxiety, and paranoia. As a vast amount of research stresses the psychosocial basis of psychosis and the interpersonal causes of its symptoms, parenting difficulties in people with psychosis could benefit from being addressed from a relational perspective. Accordingly, parents with psychosis should be offered interventions that enable them to create positive parental role models, develop reflective functioning, and identify situations in which their symptoms might hinder positive parenting. Many of these needs are unmet by interventions offered in adult psychosis services today

Environmental health · Mental health · Mental health service · Perception · Poison control · Psychiatry · Psychosis · Suicide prevention · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Family Caregiving in Mental Illness · Family Support in Illness · Medicine · Psychology

  • Health and social care professionals' views and experiences of supporting parents with serious mental illness

    Open Access•L Oakes, Luke Wolfenden et al.•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2023

  • Attachment and loss

    John Bowlby•Attachment and loss•1981

  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

    American Psychiatric Association American Psychiatric Association, Ewer Ewer•Diagnostic And Statistical Manual…•2013

  • A Family-Based Approach to the Prevention of Depressive Symptoms in Children at Risk

    William R Beardslee, Tracy R G Gladstone et al.•PEDIATRICS•2003

  • Mentalizing Makes Parenting Work

    Open Access•Andrea Camoirano•Frontiers in Psychology•2017

  • Risk of Mental Illness in Offspring of Parents With Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder

    D Rasic, T Hajek et al.•Schizophrenia Bulletin•2014

  • Childhood Adversities Increase the Risk of Psychosis

    Filippo Varese, Feikje Smeets et al.•Schizophrenia Bulletin•2012

  • Initiating communication about parental mental illness in families

    Open Access•Heljä Pihkala, Mikael Sandlund et al.•International Journal of Social…•2012

  • The Needs of Parents with a Mental Illness Who Have Young Children

    Open Access•Carmel Alakus, Rebecca Conwell et al.•International Journal of Social…•2007

  • Protecting young carers

    Chris Dearden, Saul Becker•The Journal of Social Welfare Law•1997

  • Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment in Abused and Neglected Mothers

    Open Access•Nicolas Berthelot, Karin Ensink et al.•Infant Mental Health Journal•2015

  • Using thematic analysis in psychology

    Open Access•Braun, Virginia Braun et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2006

Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,33
Citation span2023 - 2023 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1

Tools

Open DOISci-HubOpen Access
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae