Highlights
- •Carer involvement has a positive impact on service users’ illness trajectory.
- •Little is known specifically about parent carers in forensic mental health services.
- •Parents in forensic mental health services experience severe difficulties in getting support by the healthcare professionals.
- •Parent felt compelled to act in a demanding advocacy role, increasing the burden impact within the parents’ everyday lives.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and perceptions of parents
in forensic mental health services with regard to their cooperation with healthcare
professionals and their role as parent carers. 15 participants were interviewed using
qualitative, in-depth interviews and transcripts were analysed thematically. The identified
themes were ‘Medical dominance’, ‘Interactions with healthcare professionals’, and
‘Advocating for their daughter/son’. The themes were associated with the overall theme
‘perceived impact on the parents' everyday lives’. The results suggest that parent
carers perceive a malalignment between the institutional medicalised treatment focus
and the need for an integrated holistic approach, which would include them as partners.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 15, 2022
Accepted:
July 9,
2022
Received in revised form:
June 21,
2022
Received:
March 21,
2022
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