title: Parents of adolescents with psychiatric disorders: insight into the disorder, self-stigma and parental stress.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Parents of adolescents with mental disorders experience stress partially due to the way they perceive and experience their offspring's disorder. The current study assessed the mediator role of self-stigma in the relationship between insight into the disorder and parental stress of parents of adolescents with mental disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 37 parents of adolescents with psychiatric disorders were assessed for their level of insight, self-stigma and parental stress.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The hypothesized mediation model was confirmed and is consistent with previous study on parents of adults with severe mental illness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The positive association between insight and parental stress is mediated by these parents' self-stigma, suggesting that insight increases the self-stigma, which in turn increases the parental stress. These results may have clinical implications with regard to the treatment of the family of adolescents with mental disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Electronic address: Ilanit.hasson-ohayon@biu.ac.il.
authors.forename: Ilanit
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hasson-Ohayon
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Rivka
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tuval-Mashiach
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Mayad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morag-Yaffe
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Meyrav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gaziel
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescents' Psychiatry Division, Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Lior
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schapir
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescents' Psychiatry Division, Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Division of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Gil
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zalsman
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescents' Psychiatry Division, Geha Mental Health Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Gal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shoval
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D057545:Social Stigma; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*