Introduction: Existing literature suggests that the children of ill parents are vulnerable to a
variety of psychosocial difficulties such as depression and anxiety. The purpose of the …

Background: Parental chronic illness is associated with an elevated risk for developing
social-emotional and behavioral problems in children, in particular internalizing symptoms …

Objective: Chronic illness is highly prevalent among adults with children. It is therefore
important to understand how parental illness may or may not have an impact on affected …

A good number of children grow up in households where a parent has been diagnosed with
medical chronic illness. Parental chronic illness is stressful for children and adolescents and …

Parental illness can influence children's health and psychological development. Outcomes
can be varied for a particular parental illness and similar for different, distinctive parental …

Background This study addresses limitations of prior research that have used group
comparison designs to test the effects of parental illness on youth. Purpose This study …

A family ecology model for understanding adolescents' reactions to parental illness is
presented and used to (a) critically evaluate existing research that examines direct effects of …

Objective To examine the psychological adjustment of adolescents living with a chronically
ill parent and the relationship between psychological symptoms and communication with …

Approximately 10% of children grow up with a parent who has been diagnosed with a
chronic medical condition (CMC) and seem to be at risk for adjustment difficulties. We …

Examines the effects of chronic illness on the parent dyad and the extent to which illness
may contribute to parental distress. Specific emphasis is placed on factors that may …