How Children with Parents Suffering from Mental Health Distress Search For ‘Normality’ and Avoid Stigma: To Be or Not To Be Is Not the Question  

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Fjone, Heidi Haug ; Ytterhus, Borgunn ; Almvik, Arve

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research vol. 16 no. 04 (Nov. 2009), page 461-477.
Topik: Children; Everyday Life; Family; Mental Health; Distress; Mental Illness; Parents; Stigma
Fulltext: Childhood 16(4) 461-477 (win).pdf (94.22KB)

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Using data from in-depth interviews with 20 children, this study finds that children with parents suffering from mental health distress struggle hard to present themselves as ‘normal’ and equal among their peer group. The study shows how they avoid stigma in their presentation of self in everyday life. All the children in this study, regardless of age or parents’ suffering, are active participants and impression managers in and of their own lives. The authors question whether their active responsibility for their own and their family’s well-being becomes too heavy a burden and should be moved from children’s private sphere into public arenas such as schools or social and healthcare services.

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