title: Parents Caring For Adult Children With Serious Mental Illness.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Parents often become the caregivers for their adult children with serious mental illness (SMI) due to the chronic and debilitating course of the illness and shortages in funding for community mental health services and residential placements.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine parents' management styles when caring for adult children with SMI and parents' perspectives on what type of community-based mental health interventions would support and/or enhance overall family functioning.
  
  
  METHODS
  A qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews with parents caring for adult children with SMI. The study was undergirded by Knafl and Deatrick's Family Management Style Framework.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four major themes emerged from the data describing prolonged and difficult phases that parents and the family undergo in caring for an adult child with SMI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Successful management of these phases must include increasing access to mental health information, mental health screening, early interventions, and violence prevention for adult children and their families.
authors.affiliation: 1 Kathryn Y. Raymond, PhD, RN, APRN, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Kathryn Y
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Raymond
authors.affiliation: 2 Danny G. Willis, DNS, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Danny G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Willis
authors.affiliation: 3 Susan Sullivan-Bolyai, DNSc, RN, CNS, FAAN, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sullivan-Bolyai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D032721:Adult Children / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017028:Caregivers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents; D036301:Qualitative Research; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: adult children; caregiving; management styles; parents; serious mental illness