Recasting Research Into Children's Experences of Parental Mental Illnesss : Beyond Risk and Resilience  

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Gladstone, Brenda McConnell ; Boydell, Katherine M. ; McKeever, Patricia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 10 (May 2006), page 2540-2550.
Topik: parental; sociology of childhood; risk; paerntal mental illness

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Children who live with a mentally ill parent are viewed primarily as being at risk of developing a mental illness themselves and those who remain well are considered extraordinarily resilient. this particular risk/ resilience discourse is embedded within larger contemporary discourses about risk and childhood. Childhood is seen as a critial period of development during which children need protection due to their physical and psychological vulnerabilities. In this paper, the implications of this dominant casting of children are explored and it is argued that the conceptual repertoire about those living with a mentally ill parent should be expanded. A critique of the literature that established the risk / resilience discourse is followed by a discussion of research about parenting with a mental ilness within which children are surprisingly absent. recent thinking about children arising out of the new social studies of childhood is summarized to illustrate its resistance to the hegemonic image of chilfren as passive, developing, unfinished persons. A recasting of children as complex young persons who have competencies as well s vulnerabilities linked to their developmental stages, would lead to different lines of inquiry about children's experiences of mental illness in a parent.

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