Psychotic disorders and parenting - the relevance of patients' children for general adult psychiatric services

Abstract

Patients with psychotic disorders are often assumed to be sub-fertile, and when patients do have children, any child care concerns are usually passed on to social services. The children of patients with psychotic disorders may not, therefore, be of major concern to the responsible medical officer, and community mental health services have not been developed with families in mind. Routine statistics on psychiatric patient episodes do not include information on patients' children – a question covering this issue was included in the pilot draft of the Mental Health Minimum Data Set (approved for England by the Department of Health in September 1999), but was dropped because clinical professionals were reluctant to record this information, as they did not consider it relevant in this context (personal communication, G. Glover, 2000).

Parents with Suicidal Behavior: Parenting is Not Always Protective

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Perceived parental attitudes and the levels quality of life in children and adolescents at high risk for schizophrenia

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Elterliche Belastung und Einstellungen zur Jugendhilfe bei psychisch kranken Eltern: Auswirkungen auf die Inanspruchnahme von Hilfen

“…Häufig werden psychiatrische Patienten bei der Aufnahme nicht einmal gefragt, ob sie Kinder haben und wie diese versorgt sind (Howard, 2000;Schmid et al, 2008a). Psychisch kranke Eltern haben spezifische Ängste, ihnen könnte aufgrund der Erkrankung ihr Kind weggenommen werden, was wiederum verhindernt, Hilfen aktiv zu suchen (Cogan, 1998;Sands, 1995).…”