title: Coping with mental illness: a family's struggle for peace.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Families struggle with the day-to-day worrying about behaviors of acting out at school and work, and the loss of normalcy that they used to have in their everyday lives. Families with a loved one with mental illness live in an almost constant state of uncertainty due to the unpredictability of the illness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article addresses the challenges inherent to the acute psychiatric admission process of a patient and family.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL.
authors.forename: Brandie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stiles
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D022143:Family Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*