Coping strategies for people who care for a relative with chronic mental illness.
To study the coping strategies in use by family members (N = 36) who had remained involved with and supportive of their mentally ill relative, we used both a checklist of questions about relevant coping behaviours and group discussions about caregivers' methods of taking care of themselves. Results invite further exploration.
Winefield
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, South Australia. hwinefield@medicine.adelaide.edu.au
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology