ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
"We Are More than Our Parents' Mental Illness": Narratives from Adult Children.
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- Video-based e-learning program for schoolteachers to support children of parents with mental illness: a cluster randomized trial.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Early Exposure to a Parent's Alcohol Use Disorder as an Adverse Childhood Experience: Neurobiological and Clinical Consequences in Adulthood.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026Review
- The tip of an iceberg? Adult children's experiences with parental suicidal behaviour in childhood.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
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- Developing a Support Program for Adult Children of Parents with Mental Illness: A Delphi Study.Community mental health journal · 2023Article
- Childhood Adversities and Psychological Health of Adult Children of Parents with Mental Illness in Japan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- 'It's like they're learning what it is for the very first time': Clinician's accounts of self-compassion in clients whose parents experience mental illness.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2022Article
- An online intervention for vulnerable young adults: identifying mechanisms of change using a grounded theory approach.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
- Childhood experiences pursue adulthood for better and worse: a qualitative study of adults' experiences after growing up with a severely mentally ill parent in a small-scale society.Journal of research in nursing : JRN · 2020Article
- Relational trajectories in families with parental mental illness: a grounded theory approach.BMC psychology · 2020Article
- Reaching families where a parent has a mental disorder: Using big data to plan early interventions.Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2020Article
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Abstract
Although research on children of parents with mental illness is growing, few researchers have examined the long-term impact of parental mental illness on adult children. This study explored the potential impact of growing up with a parent with a mental illness on the parenting role assumed by adult children. The qualitative study included ten participants, who were individually interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) along with member checks were utilised to derive themes from participants' narratives. Three main themes were identified, including: 'this is me', 'a whole new world', and 'because of you'. 'This is me' consisted of narratives highlighting how adult children intentionally went about parenting in ways different from their parents, and 'a whole new world' captured the salient identity that parenthood served for adult children. The third theme, 'because of you' highlighted the challenges adult children faced in their parenting roles as a result of their childhood experience living with a parent with mental illness. Participants highlighted the main challenges to be an absence of a reference point and lack of informal social supports. Recommendations for mental health practitioners and future research are presented in order to develop better ways to support adult children and their families.
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