TY - JOUR
T1 - Helping aging parents of adult children with serious mental illness
AU - Kaufman, Allan V.
AU - Scogin, Forrest
AU - MacNeil, Gordon
AU - Leeper, James
AU - Wimberly, Joshua
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (5R21AG26287-2).
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This manuscript reports the results of a study that pilot-tested a home-delivered, multidimensional problem-solving intervention aimed at helping aging parental caregivers of adult children with schizophrenia. The results indicate that the participants (N = 5) who received the 10-session intervention showed increased life satisfaction and emotional well-being and reduced feelings of burden compared with those participants in the control group (N = 10). If a planned larger-scale evaluation of the intervention provides evidence of its effectiveness, practitioners could have a valuable newtreatment tool to provide assistance to this caregiver population.
AB - This manuscript reports the results of a study that pilot-tested a home-delivered, multidimensional problem-solving intervention aimed at helping aging parental caregivers of adult children with schizophrenia. The results indicate that the participants (N = 5) who received the 10-session intervention showed increased life satisfaction and emotional well-being and reduced feelings of burden compared with those participants in the control group (N = 10). If a planned larger-scale evaluation of the intervention provides evidence of its effectiveness, practitioners could have a valuable newtreatment tool to provide assistance to this caregiver population.
KW - Adults with schizophrenia
KW - Aging parental caregivers
KW - Multidimensional intervention
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957823350&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01488376.2010.510949
DO - 10.1080/01488376.2010.510949
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77957823350
SN - 0148-8376
VL - 36
SP - 445
EP - 459
JO - Journal of Social Service Research
JF - Journal of Social Service Research
IS - 5
ER -