Service Utilization, Self-Efficacy, Positive Attitude and Well-Being Among Asian American Family Caregivers of Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses

Han, Meekyung; Diwan, Sadhna; Cole, Tomasine; Hay, Kristen; Paturzo, Marisa

doi:10.1007/s10597-021-00912-8

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“…According to recent research on the well-being of AAPI family caregivers to individuals with serious mental illnesses, utilization of mental health services was positively correlated with enhanced self-efficacy as a caregiver. The researchers noted that the well-being of family caregivers was crucial to successful recovery of the affected family member (Han et al, 2022). This study highlights the importance of including the family system in treatment for Asian Americans and providing services geared toward well-being of the entire family rather than the individual.…”

Section: Asians In Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

Filling the GAAAPPS: Generating affirming Asian American perinatal psychological services.

Yuen,

Vozar,

Elliott

2024

Practice Innovations

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Women in the perinatal period face a unique set of mental health challenges as they navigate both physical changes and emotional transitions. Perinatal mental health has been linked to child outcomes such as social-emotional development, cognitive development, and physical growth. In addition, women of racial/ethnic minority groups are confronted with barriers to accessing services and are therefore less likely to utilize mental health services. While international attention has recently focused on the experiences of women of color in the perinatal period, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women are largely overlooked. This review explores the intersections of perinatal and Asian American mental health literature, including access barriers, acculturative stress, battling stereotypes, and discrimination. Each of these factors should be understood within the context of the historical treatment of Asian Americans. Special considerations for developing programs designed to support and empower AAPI women during the perinatal period include utilizing a collaborative approach, integrating traditional values, and conceptualizing challenges within the context of each socioecological level (e.g., individual, family, and systems level). This article centers on the experiences of cisgender AAPI women, and further research is needed centering nonbinary birthing folks. To develop mental health services and programs with cultural humility, providers should center both individual and community perspectives and approach conversations from a position of transparency and openness. Clinical Impact StatementThis article celebrates the diversity of the Asian population and advocates for the development of affirming perinatal psychological services specifically for Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Additionally, it provides suggestions for providers hoping to uplift this group while ultimately working toward decolonization of the mental health system.

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Section: Asians In Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

Filling the GAAAPPS: Generating affirming Asian American perinatal psychological services.

Yuen,

Vozar,

Elliott

2024

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“…Since Duggleby et al's (2021) review, two other quantitative studies have been completed. Han et al (2022) reported a positive relationship between positive attitudes (i.e. faith in recovery, having hope for the future) and caregiver well‐being and Stanley and Balakrishnan (2021) found that hope was a significant predictor of perceived reward in the caring role.…”

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Family members' perspectives of hope when supporting a relative experiencing mental health problems

McCarthy

Higgins

McCarthy

et al. 2023

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Current research views hope as a process that plays a positive role in the recovery of individuals with mental health problems. However, little attention has been given to the role of hope in the lives of their families. We aimed to address that gap. We deployed a qualitative descriptive design and carried out individual interviews with nine family members who supported a relative with mental health problems. A cross‐comparison of the data generated three major themes: understandings of hope; factors that diminish hope and factors that nurture hope. The participants viewed hope as a positive and productive feeling or attitude that was life‐affirming, and empowering. They also associated it with behaviours and dispositions such as attentiveness and empathy and the possibility of a return to a more stable and ‘normal’ life. The participants experienced hope as initially eroded when their relative was first diagnosed and institutionalized. Hope was further diminished due to the poor communication practices of some mental health professionals and the stress of the caring role itself. On the other hand, hope was nurtured through the support of other family members, friends, neighbours and peers. Acquiring knowledge and understanding about the relative's state of mental health nurtured hope and enabled the participants to have a more meaningful role in their recovery process. Practices of self‐care such as independent activities and counselling also strengthened hope and some mental health professionals played a positive role in supporting these. Most striking about the reports of many of the participants was their assertion of their abiding love for their relative. Their account of their ability to see beyond the illness of their relative was an insight that we did not find in other accounts of the experiences of family members. We highlight the need for family members to have timely access to relevant information about their relatives' illness. We conclude that hope is relational at its core because of the interplay of intrapersonal, interpersonal and social factors that diminish or nurture it over time. Specifically, we propose that friends, neighbours and peer support groups as key actors in nurturing the hope of both family members and their relatives.

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Burdened but Meaningful?: How Gender Role Attitudes Influence the Complex Links between Care-giver Self-Efficacy, Formal Support Utilisation and Benefit-Finding among Spousal Care-givers

Yan,

Zhang,

Sun

2023

The British Journal of Social Work

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To foster family caregiving resilience, helping care-givers find benefits to further promoting care-giver and care-recipient well-being has emerged as an efficacious intervention in geriatric social work practice. This cross-sectional mixed-methods study investigates how gender role attitudes influence the complex associations between care-giver self-efficacy, formal support utilisation and benefit-finding among spousal care-givers. A total of 210 spousal care-giver/care-recipient dyads from four Chinese cities participated in a survey from July to August 2021. The survey used the Positive Aspects of Caregiving Scale, Caregiver Task Inventory Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale. Mediation and moderated mediation analysis found that care-giver self-efficacy partially mediated the path of the primary stressor and benefit-finding; formal support utilisation directly moderated the mediated pathways linking primary stressor, care-giver self-efficacy and benefit-finding; and gender role attitudes moderated these intersections. Qualitative analysis revealed that spousal care-givers with high self-efficacy, who used formal support services, and who had modern gender role attitudes found the most benefits in caregiving. The findings also suggested that professionals should recognise the influence of gender role attitudes in spousal caregiving and incorporate this understanding into the development of tailored psychoeducational interventions aimed at promoting care-giver well-being.

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Service Utilization, Self-Efficacy, Positive Attitude and Well-Being Among Asian American Family Caregivers of Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

Filling the GAAAPPS: Generating affirming Asian American perinatal psychological services.

Filling the GAAAPPS: Generating affirming Asian American perinatal psychological services.

Family members' perspectives of hope when supporting a relative experiencing mental health problems

Burdened but Meaningful?: How Gender Role Attitudes Influence the Complex Links between Care-giver Self-Efficacy, Formal Support Utilisation and Benefit-Finding among Spousal Care-givers

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