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Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, 100-113 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732302239413

Redefining Parental Identity: Caregiving and Schizophrenia

P. Jane Milliken

Herbert C. Northcott

When parents try to assume responsibility for an ill adult-child with schizophrenia, the law, mental health practitioners, and often the ill person reject their right to do so. Consequently, these parents regard themselves as disenfranchised, i.e., lacking the rights required to care properly for their loved ones. Redefining Parental Identity, a grounded theory of caregiving and schizophrenia, traces changes in a parent’s identity and caregiving during the erratic course of the child’s mental illness. Participants were a purposive sample of 29 parent caregivers from 19 families in British Columbia, Canada, caring for 20 adult children. This understanding of their experience will be helpful to parents of people with schizophrenia, professional practitioners, and those involved in mental health care reform.

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