The aim of this essay was to study children’s experiences of their participation in a programme for children who have a parent with a mental illness. The study was written at the request of the Psychosis care in Örebro and was accomplished by qualitative interviews with five children at the ages of 11 to 16 years old. Previous research concerning children who have a parent with a mental illness and programmes for these children is accounted for. Antonovsky´s conception KASAM together with the conceptions of guilt and shame were used as the theoretical frame, from which the results of the interviews were analysed. Results from the analysis include children’s increased knowledge about mental illness, an increased KASAM and that the children found it positive meeting other children with similar experiences. Overall, the experiences from the programme seem to be positive, but a few ideas for improvements are given, amongst them equal gender and ages in the group. Finally a discussion is held where increased knowledge and research concerning children with mentally ill parents is desired.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-412 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Axelsson, Frida, Sandberg, Linda, Tambour, Jennie |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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