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Diagnosis in Young Children: How a Father's Perceptions of Mental Health Change
Author(s) -
Morris Marian
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/jcap.12069
Subject(s) - ambivalence , mental health , perception , mental illness , alienation , psychology , mental health care , interactionism , health care , psychiatry , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , sociology , neuroscience , political science , law , anthropology , economics , economic growth
Purpose This case study's purpose was to understand how diagnosing mental illness in a child affects a parent's perception of mental health, using D enzin's interpretive interactionism. Sources Two interviews from a case study were analyzed. Conclusions Emergent themes were alienation from peers, ambivalence, shifting orientation to mental illness, school system stigmatization and conflict with mental health care, and discovery of mental healthcare specialists and new peers. Perceptions were influenced by peers, education, and mental healthcare systems, and by the disease model paradigm of mental illness. Future research should explore the effect of the diagnostic process on parents of very young children, and expand on consequences of undergoing current diagnostic and treatment practices.