Resilience in children of parents with mental illness: Relations between mental health literacy, social connectedness and coping, and both adjustment and caregiving

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 573-584

  Fraser, Eliza ^a   Pakenham, Kenneth Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Adolescents; Children; Parental mental illness; Resilience; Young carers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; PARENTS; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 70449111584     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500903193820     Document Type: Article

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