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Age and family burden among parents of offspring with severe mental illness
J A Cook1, H P Lefley, S A Pickett
1Thresholds National Research and Training Center on Rehabilitation and Mental Illness, Chicago.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|July 1, 1994
Abstract:
Family burden reported by parents of offspring with severe mental illness was examined to determine whether burden increases with age. Older parents were troubled by cognitive dimensions of burden, while younger parents were distressed by their offspring's behavior, suggesting that interventions should vary according to parents' age as well as developmental stage of their child's illness.