Accessible Summary What is known about the subject? There are many qualitative studies
that explore what it is like for children who live with a parent who has a mental illness. These …

Aim: This paper provides a review of published qualitative research on children's
experiences of parental mental illness. Methods: We undertook a comprehensive search of …

The lack of pan–European guidelines for empowering children of parents with mental illness
led to the EU project CAMILLE–Empowerment of Children and Adolescents of Mentally Ill …

Aims and objectives. This article presents a qualitative meta‐synthesis that explores the
experiences of adult children of parents with a mental illness. Background. There has been …

Aims and objectives. The aims of this qualitative study were to explore the experience of
being an adult child of a parent with serious mental illness and how adult children have …

Objectives Previous research found that burdens are put on relatives to patients with serious
mental illness. A majority of the studies have described the situation of being a husband/wife …

Most research in the area of parenting has focused on psychopathology in the child or the
child-parent relationship. Little qualitative research has been carried out in the area of the …

Children of parents with a mental illness have been identified as vulnerable to experiencing
a variety of psychosocial effects arising from the impact of parental mental illness. Many …

This paper presents one major theme of findings from a doctorate study. The study used a
narrative enquiry approach, to gather parenting narratives of adult children of parents with …

Aims and objectives To explore what it is like for children in the family setting to live with
parental mental illness. Background There are reported risks of negative social and …