Helping Aging Parents of Adult Children with Serious Mental Illness.
This manuscript reports the results of a study that pilot tested a home-delivered, multi-dimensional problem-solving intervention aimed at helping aging parental caregivers of adult children with schizophrenia. The results indicate that the participants (N=5) who received the 10-session intervention showed increased life satisfaction and emotional well being, and reduced feelings of burden, compared to those participants in the control group (N=10). If a planned larger scale evaluation of the intervention provides evidence of its effectiveness, practitioners could have a valuable new treatment tool to provide assistance to this caregiver population.
Kaufman
Allan V
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Professor Emeritus, The University of Alabama, School of Social Work, Box 870314, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.
Scogin
Forrest
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Macneil
Gordon
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Leeper
James
J
Wimberly
Joshua
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