Adolescents With Ill Parents
The Prevention Researcher, Volume 12, Number 4, 2005, Item# 124
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It is difficult to determine how many youth live with a parent who is chronically or seriously ill. However, 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: ill parents may lack the emotional or physical energy to adequately parent their child, help with homework, or take youth to activities; adolescents may be expected to care for younger siblings, or care for the parent; and families may suffer financial crisis with the loss of wages of the ill parents, or increased medical bills.
Volume 12(4) of The Prevention Researcher takes a look at the lives of youth with ill parents. Articles examines the effects of living with a parent who has cancer, HIV/AIDS, or a non-terminal illness, and the effects of anticipating parental death.
Articles in this issue:
Adolescent Reactions to Parental Cancer: Strategies for Providing Support
By Victoria Rizzo, L.C.S.W.-R, Ph.D., and Kristen Kirkland, M.S.W.
Adolescents Coping with Non-Terminal Parental Cancer
By Maureen Davey, Ph.D., L.M.F.T., and Adam Davey, Ph.D.
HIV-Affected Adolescents: Vulnerabilities and Protective Factors
By Dorie Gilbert, Ph.D.
Parental Illness and Adolescent Development
By Nancy L. Worsham. Ph.D., and Emily K. Crawford, B.A.
Traumatic Stress in Adolescents Anticipating Parental Death
By Amy Saldinger, Ph.D., Albert C. Cain, Ph.D., and Katherine Porterfield, Ph.D
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