Positive parent/adult child relationships: impact of severe mental illness and caregiving burden.
Comparison of 222 parents of an adult child who had a psychiatric disability and 434 parents with a nondisabled adult child revealed that parents' positive appraisals of their relationship with the target child was significantly predicted by their perceived caregiving burden, but not by their child's psychiatric status. Implications for interventions that enhance parent/adult child relationships are discussed.
Pickett
S A
SA
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Cook
J A
JA
Cohler
B J
BJ
Solomon
M L
ML
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012944:Social Support