Grief, parenting, and schizophrenia
| Autor: | Daniel J. Davis, Cynthia L. Schultz |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Psychosis Health (social science) Victoria media_common.quotation_subject Mothers Developmental psychology Fathers Sex Factors History and Philosophy of Science Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Parent-Child Relations Aged media_common Analysis of Variance Recall Cognition Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Social relation Distress El Niño Schizophrenia Female Grief New South Wales Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine. 46:369-379 |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| Popis: | It is argued that a child with schizophrenia represents an ongoing source of loss and grief for parents. The study aimed to (a) validate the presence of grief in mothers and fathers of children with schizophrenia, and (b)explore whether the hours of parental contact with the child influences the strength of grief reactions. The mean age (62 years) of the 16 mother-father dyads constituted an investigation of older parents, for 43% of whom the duration of diagnosed schizophrenia was over 10 years. Grief was conceptualised as a cognitive, behavioural, and emotional reaction to loss, and was operationalized by measuring current intrusive thoughts and avoidance behaviours, as well as emotional distress over reminders of time of diagnosis. As hypothesised, mothers and fathers were grieving in relation to their child's psychiatric illness. No differences between mothers and fathers in intrusive thinking, avoidance behaviours, and distress related to recall of diagnosis were detected. With the exception of intrusive thoughts, number of contact hours with the child was not an intervening variable of mothers' and fathers' grieving. |
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