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When someone develops a mental illness, the impact on the family is often profound. The most common treatment processes, however, focus on the patient while the loved ones are relegated to subordinate roles and sometimes even viewed as barriers to effective recovery. Families Coping with Mental Illness approaches these issues from the family's perspective, studying how they react to initial diagnosis, adjust to new circumstances, and cope with the situation. Through her own original research in the United States and Japan, Kawanishi presents a cross-cultural experience of mental illness that examine both psychological and sociological issues, making this book suitable to all international fields engaging with diversity and mental health. Including first-hand accounts along with analysis and discussion, Kawanishi gives voice to family members and adeptly identifies universal themes of resilience, adaptability, and strength of the family unit. This innovative text offers a unique viewpoint that will appeal to a wide audience of professionals and non-professionals from a variety of backgrounds.
When a loved one, family member, spouse, or close friend develops a
mental illness, the profound changes to the afflicted person
resonate through the family with unique and life-altering
consequences, often with as great an impact on them as on the
person suffering with the illness. Family members have to adapt and
make changes to lifestyles and future plans, and often face
depression, stress, and other secondary issues, as they learn to
cope with a new situation. And today, despite immense medical and
political progress and open debate on mental disorders, attention
is still overwhelmingly focused on the treatment of the patient,
while family members are relegated to adjunctive roles in
treatment, and sometimes even viewed as barriers to effective
therapy and recovery. Seemingly in contradiction with the
interpersonal nature of most mental disorders (not to mention the
social stigma that affects the family as well as the individual), a
patient-centered approach to treatment remains the most common
perspective.
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