CARING FOR MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN IN MH TREATMENT

描述(申请人摘要)：这项研究增强项目是 作为社会工作研究发展中心的组成部分提交 (SWRDC)。根据中心的科学目标，我们将研究 母亲生活中影响她们自己和她们的生态因素 儿童的疾病，以及他们接受治疗的决定。父母 在儿童精神病学中，精神病理学是一个相对被忽视的风险因素。 在我们的初步研究中，18/33(54%)的母亲带着孩子来照顾 符合焦虑和抑郁障碍的标准，其中只有3个是 正在接受治疗。我们认为，母体疾病是常见的儿童 环境，以及对患病母亲的治疗对妇女的健康很重要 孩子和母亲都是。然而，母亲往往得不到治疗。 为了他们自己。我们的长期目标是为那些 带他们的孩子接受治疗，以确保母亲的需求 承认和满足，特别是生病的母亲得到有效的 治疗。在这项提案中，我们将确定母婴的患病率 诊断，为确诊的母亲提供转介，并进行为期六个月的 记录结果的后续行动，包括转诊母亲是否获得 给自己治病。我们担心即使很好的治疗 ，母亲可能得不到它，因为生态因素可能 阻挠他们。我们将利用准实验设计来研究 产妇疾病、儿童疾病与治疗之间的关系 出席率。这项提议代表了高级官员之间罕见的合作 具有临床专业知识的社会工作和精神病学专业人员 治疗研究、家庭研究和照顾者负担，这是一个独特的群体 适合进行拟议的研究。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): This research enhancement project is submitted as a component of the Social Work Research Development Center (SWRDC). Consistent with scientific goals of the Center, we will study ecological factors in the lives of mothers that affect their own and their child's illness, and their decisions to obtain treatment. Parental psychopathology is a relatively neglected risk factor in child psychiatry. In our pilot study 18/33 (54%) mothers who brought their children for care met criteria for anxiety and depressive disorders, and only 3 of these were receiving treatment. We believe that maternal disorders are common child settings, and that treatment of ill mothers is important for the health of both child and mother. However, too often mothers do not obtain treatment for themselves. Our long term goal is to develop a program for mothers who bring their children for treatment which ensures that maternal needs are recognized and met, and, in particular, that ill mothers receive effective treatment. In this proposal we will determine the prevalence of maternal diagnosis, provide referral of diagnosed mothers, and conduct a six-month follow-up to document outcome, including whether referred mothers obtain treatment for themselves. We are concerned that even if excellent treatment is available, mothers may not receive it, because ecological factors may hinder them. We will utilize a quasi-experimental design to study relationships between maternal illness, child illness and treatment attendance. This proposal represents a rare collaboration between senior social work and psychiatric faculty with combined expertise in clinical treatment research, family studies and caregiver burden, a group uniquely suited to conduct the proposed studies.