title: The Journey Through and Beyond Mental Health Services in the United Kingdom: A Typology of Parents' Ways of Managing the Crisis of Their Teenage Child's Depression.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Depression is a common mental illness experienced by young people. Yet we know little about how their parents manage their symptoms at home, and how parents may experience their treatment at child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Thus, the aim of our study was to create a typology of parents' experiences over a 2-year period, beginning with their teenage child's referral to CAMHS in the United Kingdom.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 85 semistructured interviews were conducted with one or both parents of 28 adolescents at 3 time points, and qualitatively analyzed using ideal type analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three distinct types or patterns of parental experience were identified: the learning curve parents, the finding my own solutions parents, the stuck parents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These patterns of parental experience could perhaps provide a basis for clinicians working in CAMHS to reflect on the families that they see and to adapt their ways of working accordingly to best support these families.
authors.affiliation: University College London and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stapley
authors.affiliation: University College London and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Target
authors.affiliation: University College London and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London.
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Midgley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: adolescents; depression; ideal type analysis; parenting; qualitative methods