Children of parents hospitalized for mental illness.
Children of parents hospitalized for mental illness.
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父母因精神疾病住院的孩子。
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1962
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通讯作者：
W. M. Schmidt
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作者：
M. Ekdahl;E. Rice;W. M. Schmidt
当父母因精神疾病而需要住院治疗时，正常的家庭活动会受到许多干扰和破坏。据认为，这些家庭中的儿童与父亲或母亲因死亡、离婚、分居或其他原因而缺席的其他儿童具有相同的风险。然而，这些儿童面临额外的风险，因为父母在入院前或短或长的时间内患有精神疾病。因此，他们与精神疾病特有的困扰密切相关。由于父母一方患有精神疾病，另一方情绪紧张，孩子可能会被剥夺通常的护理，包括普通的健康监督或足够的医疗护理。他们可能被剥夺了自己的家、玩伴和教室等熟悉的环境，这是由于生活安排发生了突然的、令人困惑的变化，持续时间未知。他们熟悉和正常的家庭活动可能会受到那些不情愿、不适合或准备不足应对危机时期的特殊要求的看护人的侵入和扰乱。众所周知，此类情况确实存在，但对其严重程度和严重性却知之甚少。文献中有大量材料涉及住院治疗对与家人分离的儿童的影响。还有大量文献涉及所有家庭对精神病院治疗的担忧、影响和反应。克劳森、亚罗等人在《社会问题杂志》上发表的一系列精彩文章讨论了精神疾病对家庭的影响，特别是当丈夫住院时，这与妻子有关。除了特鲁德利 (Truedley) 的一篇论文2 描述了患有精神疾病的父母的孩子在住房、食物、睡眠和照顾等日常需求方面受到的一些干扰和干扰之外，文献中很少有专门针对这一高危儿童群体的文献。 1950 年，马萨诸塞州州立精神病院收治了大约 7,500 人。根据 40% 的样本3，已确定约 1,200 名患者年龄在 15 至 54 岁之间，已婚、丧偶、离婚或分居，居住在有一个或多个孩子的家庭中。
WHEN mental illness of a parent necessitates hospitalization, many disturbances and disruptions in normal family activities are to be anticipated. It is assumed that children in these families have the same risks as other children whose fathers or mothers are absent from the home because of death, divorce, separation, or other reasons. However, these children have an added risk because a parent has been mentally ill for a shorter or longer period of time prior to hospital admission. They are thereby intimately involved in the disturbances peculiar to mental illness. With the mental illness of one parent and the emotional strain on the other, children may be deprived of their usual care, including ordinary health supervision or adequate medical care. They may be deprived of the familiar surroundings of their own home, playmates, and schoolroom, brought about through abrupt, baffling changes in living arrangements of unknown duration. Their familiar and normal family activities may be invaded and disrupted by caretaking persons who are reluctant, ill suited, or poorly prepared to cope with the extraordinary demands of the crisis period. Situations such as these are known to exist, but little is known of their extent or seriousness. There is substantial material in the literature related to the effect on the child who is separated from his family by hospitalization. There is also a considerable literature directed to the concerns, implications, and reactions of the total families in relation to mental hospitalization. The excellent series of articles by Clausen, Yarrow, et al.,1 in the Journal of Social Issues discussed the impact of mental illness on the family, particularly as it relates to the wife when her husband is hospitalized. Except for a paper by Truedley,2 which described some of the disruptions and disturbances in everyday needs of housing, food, sleep, and care of children of mentally ill parents, there is very little in the literature directed specifically to this risk group of children. In 1950, approximately 7,500 persons were admitted to state mental hospitals in Massachusetts. From a 40 per cent sample3 it has been determined that about 1,200 of the patients were between the ages of 15 and 54 years, were married, widowed, divorced or separated, and lived in a household containing one or more children.