Parental Illness and Adolescent Development
By Nancy L. Worsham. Ph.D., and Emily K. Crawford, B.A.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 12, Number 4, 2005, Pages 3-6, Item# A124-WORSHAM
We explore what is known and briefly summarize existing literature targeting cancer, AIDS, and other illnesses (e.g., multiple sclerosis).
We explore what is not known, focusing on the reality of extant empirical literature further compounded by methodological limitations (e.g., primary reliance on parental reports; cross-sectional research).
Given both what we know and do not know, we discuss implications for concerned professionals including providing information to adolescents, supporting parental adjustment as an avenue to mediating the impact of illness, and providing developmentally appropriate support groups for adolescents.
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Adolescents With Ill Parents
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 12, Number 4, 2005
It has been estimated that as many as 5-15% of children and adolescents have parents who suffer from a significant medical condition. Living with an ill parent can affect youth in a number of ways, ranging from ill parents' lack of energy, to increased expectations for the adolescents, to loss of wages and famancial crisis. This issue takes a look at the lives of youth with ill parents.
This issue also featured these articles:
- • Adolescent Reactions to Parental Cancer: Strategies for Providing Support, Pages 10-12
- • Adolescents Coping with Non-Terminal Parental Cancer, Pages 7-9
- • HIV-Affected Adolescents: Vulnerabilities and Protective Factors, Pages 13-16
- • Parental Illness and Adolescent Development, Pages 3-6
- • Traumatic Stress in Adolescents Anticipating Parental Death, Pages 17-20
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