Maternal Mental Illness Child

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Further, as the child progresses to kindergarten and elementary years the parent’s behavior affects the child in ways such as the parent view their child as being difficult, verbal communication is decreased and the mothers struggle with controlling their child’s behavior. Later on in childhood and adolescence the behavioral effects of parental mental illness increase. The child becomes involved in parental problems and conflicts, the parent’s mental illness causes the child identification with the parent to be minimized and the parent is unable to support the child
(Mattejat, F., & Remschmidt, 2008). Additionally, in relation to genetic factors a main function of the brain is to move adaptation of the organism to its environment: learning
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The first article analyzed a correlation between maternal mental illness and children's long-term safety and stability. To complete the analysis researcher used a multi-sector administrative dataset was used from both the Department of Social Services and the Department of Mental Health. The sample size used consisted of 4,895 low-income families. The low-income families were both mother and child initially reported to child welfare in 1993 or 1994. The families were used until March 2009. Moreover, mothers, were identified as having a mental illness if they met the criteria for several things such as 1) she received services from public or private contract agency reimbursed through Medicaid, or other DMH funds, 2) if she was diagnosed with a mental illness such as schizophrenic disorders, episodic mood disorders, anxiety disorders and dissociative disorders and personality disorders. The study concluded that there were differences in safety and stability between mother and child, somethings varied across diagnosis and services that some mothers are already receiving or had received services which may not help them with their children’s …show more content…
Additionally, evaluated during the study was the influence of the things such as household characteristics, whether or not the parent’s economic issues enhances a parent’s social gradient has on their children’s mental health. The samples used during the study consisted of four fourteen-year-old minors from 2006 Spanish National Health Survey undertaken prior to the crisis and, and the 2011 Spanish National Health Survey carried out during the crisis. Also, mixed models were used to evaluate the influence a mother’s health and her socioeconomic status could have on her children’s mental health. The study results consisted of the following findings a child at risk of suffering from a mental illness increases when their mother has mental health problems. In

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