title: [Children from families with mental illness. Case study].
abstract: The article reveals the influence of mental illness of one or both parents on the emotional and psychosocial development and possible adjustment disturbances of their children on the example of 3 patients. The patients (all females) were treated in the 4th Psychiatric Clinic of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw in the all-day clinic, and in the out-patient clinic with community mobile teams and specialised social help services. The analysis of the history of their mental illnesses was done and compared with the analysis of their family situation and accessible data about the emotional and psychosocial development of their children. Each of these patients was at some time a single parent due to different reasons. In each case the adjustment and emotional disturbances of patients' children occurred on a different level of their development (boy and girl of the primary school age, teenager and young adult). In all presented cases there is a need of help and support apart from the family, which indicates a need of early diagnosis of situations demanding proper systemic interventions.
authors.affiliation: IV Klinika Psychiatrii IPiN w Warszawie.
authors.forename: Jolanta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paszko
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000523:psychology; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008603:Mental Health; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology