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dc.contributor.authorJones, Danson
dc.contributor.authorMacias, Rosemarie Lillianne
dc.contributor.authorGold, Paul B.
dc.contributor.authorBarreira, Paul J.
dc.contributor.authorFisher, William H.
dc.date2022-08-11T08:10:23.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T17:06:56Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T17:06:56Z
dc.date.issued2008-07-01
dc.date.submitted2011-01-05
dc.identifier.citationJ Loss Trauma. 2008 Jul 1;13(4):261-287. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325020701741849">Link to article on publisher's site</a>
dc.identifier.issn1532-5024 (Linking)
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/15325020701741849
dc.identifier.pmid20011665
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45216
dc.description.abstractThis study compared parental psychiatric symptom severity, and the absence or presence of severe substance abuse, as predictors of contact with minor children for a representative sample of adults with diagnoses of serious mental illness (N = 45). Child contact and psychiatric symptom severity were measured during regularly scheduled 6-month research interviews over a total 30-month period following each participant's entry into the project. Severe substance abuse was documented as present or absent for the 6-month interval preceding each interview. Results revealed that incidence of severe substance abuse was repeatedly associated with less frequent parent-child contact, even after controlling for psychiatric symptoms, diagnosis, gender, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Neither psychiatric diagnosis nor symptom severity predicted frequency of child contact when substance abuse was taken into account. Mental health agencies offering parenting classes for adults with serious mental illness should incorporate substance use interventions to reduce loss of child custody and strengthen parent-child relationships.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=20011665&dopt=Abstract">Link to Article in PubMed</a>
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790143/pdf/nihms145082.pdf
dc.subjectSigns and Symptoms
dc.subjectSubstance-Related Disorders
dc.subjectChild of Impaired Parents
dc.subjectParent-Child Relations
dc.subjectHealth Services Research
dc.subjectMental and Social Health
dc.subjectPsychiatric and Mental Health
dc.subjectPsychiatry
dc.subjectPsychiatry and Psychology
dc.titleWhen Parents with Severe Mental Illness Lose Contact with Their Children: Are Psychiatric Symptoms or Substance Use to Blame
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.source.journaltitleJournal of loss and trauma
dc.source.volume13
dc.source.issue4
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_cmhsr/316
dc.identifier.contextkey1718673
html.description.abstract<p>This study compared parental psychiatric symptom severity, and the absence or presence of severe substance abuse, as predictors of contact with minor children for a representative sample of adults with diagnoses of serious mental illness (N = 45). Child contact and psychiatric symptom severity were measured during regularly scheduled 6-month research interviews over a total 30-month period following each participant's entry into the project. Severe substance abuse was documented as present or absent for the 6-month interval preceding each interview. Results revealed that incidence of severe substance abuse was repeatedly associated with less frequent parent-child contact, even after controlling for psychiatric symptoms, diagnosis, gender, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Neither psychiatric diagnosis nor symptom severity predicted frequency of child contact when substance abuse was taken into account. Mental health agencies offering parenting classes for adults with serious mental illness should incorporate substance use interventions to reduce loss of child custody and strengthen parent-child relationships.</p>
dc.identifier.submissionpathpsych_cmhsr/316
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Psychiatry
dc.source.pages261-287


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