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

Autor/inn/en	Fjone, Heidi Haug; Ytterhus, Borgunn; Almvik, Arve
Titel	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
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 16 (2009) 4, S.461-477 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568209343743
Schlagwörter	Mental Disorders; Social Bias; Social Attitudes; Parents with Disabilities; Children; Parent Influence; Attitude Measures; Interviews; Responsibility; Foreign Countries; Adolescents; Young Adults; Parent Child Relationship; Psychological Patterns; Friendship; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; Ausland; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Freundschaft; Norwegen
Abstract	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. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10