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Fathers with severe mental illness: characteristics and comparisons
J Nicholson1, M W Nason, A O Calabresi
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA. Joanne.Nicholson@banyan.ummed.edu
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|February 17, 1999
Abstract:
Among patients with severe mental illness attending a large, urban, outpatient mental health clinic, fathers are described and compared with nonfathers and with mothers on demographic, clinical, and child-related characteristics, and on resources and service needs. While fathers and nonfathers with mental illness differed significantly on most variables, fathers and mothers with mental illness were remarkably similar except on child-related characteristics. Issues regarding fathers' experiences and service needs are discussed.