Title Parents with mental health disorders and children health /
Translation of Title Parents with Mental Health Disorders and Children Health.
Authors Neumeier, Pia
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Pages 26
Keywords [eng] Children of mentally ill parents, incidence of mental illness, relevance of mental illness for offspring, parents with mental illnesses, children’s health, Interventions, Prevention, Therapy, Interventions for children of mentally ill parents, German intervention system for children of mentally ill parents, German healthcare for mental illness
Abstract [eng] Mentally ill parents and their children’s health is an important field of psychiatry. Children of parents with a mental illness are at a greater risk to become mentally ill themselves compared to children of mentally healthy parents. This increased risk is based on environmental and genetic factors, which usually coincide. The risk also varies depending on the parent’s diagnosis and the family’s social status. Most affected are single parent households. Interventions in the form of preventive or therapeutic care are available and are proven to successfully improve the parent’s and children’s health. Different intervention techniques exist, of which some are focused on the child to strengthen their resilience and helping coping to decrease their risk of developing a psychiatric disorder themselves. Other methods are for the entire family, also aiming to improve the parent’s health. Recruiting families to join these intervention programs is difficult. Stigmatisation, shame and fear are some of the major factors preventing help-seeking and resulting in the concealing of the situation by the families. The German intervention system is not nationwide standardized. Different projects offer help to families with mental illnesses. Some of these projects are local whereas others have offices across the country. Some examples of projects introduced below are “Frühe Hilfen”, “chimps”, “Netz und Boden”, a federal working group or “Auryn”. In this Thesis the German system, the situation of parents with mental illness and mainly children’s health is discussed with a German psychotherapist. This allows us to get an inside point of view from a professional concerning the health of children living with mentally ill parents and the German intervention system.
Dissertation Institution Vilniaus universitetas.
Type Master thesis
Language English
Publication date 2022