Post-traumatic growth: Health professionals as mothers of adult children with schizophrenia

Title
Post-traumatic growth: Health professionals as mothers of adult children with schizophrenia
Publication Date
2020
Author(s)
Klages, Debra
East, Leah
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-2706
Email: least@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:least
Usher, Kim
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9686-5003
Email: kusher@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kusher
Jackson, Debra
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1080/07399332.2020.1781126
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/30867
Abstract
Worldwide, mothers provide lifelong care for their ill children. Our aim in this paper was to describe the development of post-traumatic growth in an international group of mothers. Interviews with a feminist storytelling approach were conducted with 13 health professionals who were mothers of adult children with schizophrenia. Using thematic analysis, we found they had experienced a complex traumatic process complicated by gender and health care’s dominant ruling relations. Over time, the women grew and became experts by experience due to their combined mothering and professional knowledges. Health professionals can play a central role and support their peers to care for family members with mental illnesses.
Link
Citation
Health Care for Women International, 41(8), p. 916-927
ISSN
1096-4665
0739-9332
Start page
916
End page
927

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