[An influence of mental disorder in the child on the parents in the context of differentiated approaches to psychosocial interventions on childhood psychiatry]

Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 2014;114(10):14-9.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Objective: To specify parent reaction to a mental disorder in the child and to develop differential approaches to psychosocial family interventions.

Material and methods: Authors studied parents (mostly mothers) of 140 children with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, 100 children with autistic disorders and 85 children with mental retardation. Along with psychiatric examination of the parents, it was used psychometric scales ECI and CGSQ.

Results: Authors specified emotional and behavioral characteristics of the parents' reaction as common for all diseases studied as well peculiar for separated forms of mental diseases in children. The factors (cognitive, emotional and behavioral) determining the targets of differentiated therapeutic interventions were singled out.

Conclusion: The stress coping strategies for parents are formulated.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological*
  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / psychology*
  • Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / therapy
  • Child, Preschool
  • Emotions
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability / psychology*
  • Intellectual Disability / therapy
  • Male
  • Parents / psychology*
  • Schizophrenia / therapy
  • Schizophrenic Psychology*