Getting "to the Point"

Abstract

Background-If mentally ill individuals become violent, mothers are most often victims, yet there is little available research addressing how, when, and from whom mothers seek help for themselves and/or their children when they become victims of this form of familial violence.

Transition-Age Children With Mental Illness: Hearing the Voices of Mothers

“…Concurrently, if their adult child exhibited externalizing behaviors such as aggression and property destruction, mothers were found to be less healthy and to report depression. This finding converges with the study investigating the impact on mothers of having an adult child with a mental illness who is violent (Copeland, 2008).…”

“…Housing options were identified as being low quality, or unaffordable and also lacking in supervision (Hanson & Rapp, 1992). Parents identify a paradoxical situation where their adult children are discharged from facilities because of violent behavior, although, their adult child needs the facility because discharge puts the parents at risk (Copeland, 2008). …”

Informal Caregiving Relationships in Psychosis: Reviewing the Impact of Patient Violence on Caregivers

“…The total number of carer participants identified was 1,875 and most were female. In the 16 studies reporting this data, the composition of female participants in individual studies ranged from 39% (Gopinath and Chaturvedi, 1992 ) to 100% (Copeland and Heilemann, 2008 ). Only 65% ( n = 13) of studies offered details on the mean age of carer participants.…”

“…The cited studies were international including six from Asia (Gopinath and Chaturvedi, 1992 ; Hanzawa et al, 2013 ; Hsu and Tu, 2013 ; Chaturvedi et al, 2014 ; Kageyama et al, 2016 ; Varghese et al, 2016 ); four from the USA (Friedrich et al, 1999 ; O'Brien et al, 2006 ; Thompson, 2007 ; Copeland and Heilemann, 2008 ); three from the United Kingdom (Gibbons et al, 1984 ; Ferriter and Huband, 2003 ; Onwumere et al, 2014 ) and Australia (Vaddadi et al, 1997 , 2002 ; Loughland et al, 2009 ), and two from Sweden (Kjellin and Ostman, 2005 ; Nordström et al, 2006 ). The remaining studies had their origin in Canada (Chan, 2008 ) and Switzerland (Lauber et al, 2003 ).…”

“…Carer participants were heterogeneous in how they related to patients, although most were reported as being the parents. The composition of parents in individual study samples ranged from 27% (Kjellin and Ostman, 2005 ) to 100% (Ferriter and Huband, 2003 ; Nordström et al, 2006 ; Copeland and Heilemann, 2008 ; Hsu and Tu, 2013 ; Kageyama et al, 2016 ).…”