Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery Stories of Hope /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Benders-Hadi, Nikole (Editor), Barber, Mary E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Psychoanalysis.; Clinical psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Clinical Psychology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Despite the importance of regaining social roles during recovery from mental illness, the intersection between motherhood and serious mental illness is often overlooked. This book aims to rectify that neglect. A series of introductory chapters describing current research and services available to mo...

Table of Contents:

• Working with Mothers and Children: Supporting Mothers Living with Mental Illnesses in Recovery
• Modes of Experience and Understanding
• When Your Patient has Children
• Mothers are Everywhere: Finding Stories of Motherhood in a State Psychiatric Hospital
• Pregnancy and the Perinatal Period
• Substance Use Disorders and Motherhood
• Legal Issues Regarding Children
• LBT Mothers
• Voices of Mothers: The Journey
• Voices of Mothers: Getting Help
• Voices of Mothers: Motivation for Healing.- Voices of Mothers: Multigenerational Impact
• Voices of Mothers: Adult Children's Perspective".