'You'd think this roller coaster was never going to stop': Experiences of adult children of parents with serious mental illness

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 3143-3151

  Foster, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adult children; Caregiving; Family; Mental illness; Qualitative study; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ADULT CHILD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ADULT CHILDREN; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78650431654     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03293.x     Document Type: Article

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