Meeting the Intergenerational Needs of Families Where a Parent Has a Mental Illness

Melinda Goodyear; Myfanwy McDonald; Henry von Doussa; Rose Cuff; Beth Dunlop

doi:10.7191/parentandfamily.1011

Meeting the Intergenerational Needs of Families Where a Parent Has a Mental Illness

Melinda Goodyear, Myfanwy McDonald, Henry von Doussa, Rose Cuff, Beth Dunlop

Department of Rural & Indigenous Health

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Abstract

Parental mental illness can have significant psychological, social and economic impacts on families. Because of the potential impact of a parent’s mental illness on children, it can also have an ‘intergenerational’ impact. For example, children may develop a heightened awareness of their parent’s symptoms, become burdened with caring responsibilities and may even develop their own mental health conditions though a mix of genetic and environmental influences. For this reason, it is important for services to address the intergenerational impacts of parental mental illness.

Original language	English
Article number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Parent and Family Mental Health
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7191/parentandfamily.1011
Publication status	Published - 12 Oct 2018

Keywords

parental mental illness
FaPMI
families where a parents has a mental illness (FaPMI)
mental illness
Australia
parent-child relationships

UN SDGs

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Meeting the Intergenerational Needs of Families Where a Parent Has a Mental Illness

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