title: [Biographical experiences of children of psychiatrically ill parents].
abstract: In the literature you will find some references about the problems of children with parents with mental-health problems. However there is not enough knowledge about the question, how children experience such problems right inside and how their emotionally reaction about this is. Based on biographical interviews with grown-up children this article will show how they integrate the experience of the mental-health problems of their parents in their own live stories and how they interpret and value them in a retrospective view. This article focussed the regularities and commonness in the individual experiences in their childhood at thereby find generally statements about the life situation of children with mental-health parents.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Soziale Arbeit e.V., Studtstr. 20, 48149 Münster.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wagenblass
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D010553:Personality Development; D012944:Social Support
vernacular_title: Biographische Erfahrungen von Kindern psychisch kranker Eltern.