Family Caregivers In Having A Person With Mental Illness

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INTRODUCTION Family caregivers (relative, family member, non-paid caregiving and support) play a significant role in the care of persons with severe mental illness. Mental illness is a great problem in our society. Mental illnesses are disorders that affect a person’s mood, thoughts or behaviours. Serious mental illnesses include a variety of diseases including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and major depressive disorder. In this review, it was discussed on the challenges and difficulties that was facing by the family caregivers in having a person with mental illness. It is shown to us how were these family through in that situations and haw that family handling the person with this kind of this …show more content…

Mostly, from all the articles that I already read, there are several issues that was stated on that articles on about the difficulties and challenges that was faced by the family caregivers in having a person with mental illness and how were the family caregivers will have accepted it on positive and negative elements (Ennis E, 2013). The same issue that mostly the articles that was mentioned on about the stigmatized that was faced by the family caregivers on person with mental illness. The experiences of family members of people with mental illness include stigmatized social interactions, high levels of stress, and ongoing caregiver burden (Riebschleger J, Scheid J, Luz C, Mickus M, Liszewski C, Eaton M, 2008). The other researcher also mentioned persons with serious mental illness often engage in behaviours that are frightening, troublesome, disruptive, or at least annoying, and many relatives are obliged to control, manage, or tolerate these behaviours (K, Masunga. Iseselo. …show more content…

There are the some needs that was mentioned by the researcher which, family caregivers/members need support, communication with providers, involvement in crisis planning, and psychoeducation (Lefley, 1994). Some researcher found that the intervention designed to reduce self-stigma among family members of people with serious mental illness. The researchers also stated that in the research is measure changes in caregiver on self-stigma, which is measures perceptions of discrimination and devaluation toward families by the public (Perlick, D, A. Nelson, A, H. Mattlas, K. Selzer, J. Kalvin, C. Wilber, C, H. Huntingon, B. Holman, C, S. Corrigan, P, W.

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