Mental Illness in the Family

Issues and Trends

Beverley Abosh, April Collins

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781442677241
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Psychiatry & Mental Health

This volume will be of particular interest to social workers, clinical psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who work primarily with individuals and families who have been affected by major mental illness.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction
• What Do Patients Say about Program Planning? Perspectives from the Patient-Authored Literature
• Families and Mental Illness: What Have We Learned?
• Reconceptualizing the Relationship among Families, Mental Illness, and the Mental Health System
• Shifting Domains of Illness Management: A Model of Familial Relationships in Families with a Mentally III Relative
• Out of the Ashes of Mental Illness ... A New Life
• From 'Mad' to 'Bad': Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
• The Loss of a Child to Mental Illness
• The Forgotten Sibling
• The Impact of Parental Affective Disorders on Families
• Mental Illness and Parenting Capacity: Assessing for Risk and Planning for Children
• Loss of Parents through Mental Illness: The Recovery of a Six-Year-Old Boy
• Dyadic Circularity in the Mother-Infant Relationship