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Living with a chronic condition not only effects the individual, but it effects the entire family. An adolescent living with a chronic health condition not only depends on their family for support, but also on support from their friends, classmates, and healthcare team (Rostami, Parsa-Yekta, Najafi Ghezeljeh, & Vanaki, 2014). Supporting an individual with a chronic disease leaves an emotional impact and can be financially straining as well. Families living with a sick child must find strategies to cope. Whether the coping strategies utilized are positive or negative, they leave a lasting effect on the entire family, as well as the child living with the condition (Woodson, Thakkar, Burbage, Kichler, & Nabors, 2015). Involvement of the parents in this situation is vital to the child’s future success in managing their illness (Landers, Friedrich, Jawad, & Miller, 2016). This paper will explore one family’s story of living with, and coping with, a child who has recently been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D).

While the psychological impact of a chronic illness is not as measurably significant as the impact on the chronically ill child, it is substantial. Internalization is more often exhibited than externalization. This is explained as children did not wish to place more of a burden on the family than was already felt and/or because parents were psychologically and

When someone is suffering or living with a chronic illness it can have a huge impact on them psychologically and socially. Chronic Illness is a condition that is prolonged in duration, usually more than 3 months and is rarely cured (DoH, 2012). Having to cope with a chronic condition might lead to life changes, such as dependency on others, loss of income, which can cause feelings of loss and reduced self-esteem. They can also report feelings of social rejection, poor healthcare and workplace termination due to their presenting condition (Earnshaw, Quinn, & Park, 2011).

Living with a parent suffering from a mental illness can have huge negative effects for the developing child. It has been proven numerous times that there is a genuine link between parental mental illness and its adverse effects for children, e.g. Rutter, 1966, Cleaver et all, 1999. These effects can often manifest themselves as anxiety, self-esteem issues, poor relationships, educational underachievement, and emotional and behavioural problems. It should be noted that an extremely low percentage of mentally unwell parents intentionally abuse their children physically or emotionally. Another interesting facet of the parent-child relationship within the context of mental health, is that oftentimes, the child of a mentally unwell parent can often develop the same mental illness as the parent.

A displayed feelings of apprehension and became less co-operative during the initial clinical interview. She additionally displayed thoughts of inadequacy . She moved back to her parent’s house when she began getting panic attacks and was housebound through fear of inducing a panic attack. As a result of this, she became overly reliant and attached to her parents, who provided emotional, financial, and decision making support.

This mother shows signs of her mental illness almost right off the bat, when, after looking at her son, she “began yelping without tears, retching in between” (39). The onset of this illness appears to be very sudden. The story begins with “One winter evening she looked at them….the sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again” (39). It seems as if just one evening she suddenly begins to feel this way. When the son says, “‘It’s alright Mommy’” (39), causing the father to respond “Mommy is sick” (39), shows that the father did not have time to explain this to the son any time before. There is no evidence given in the story as to what caused her mental illness, though we can infer that the onset was quite sudden.

Mary, a 31-year-old single mother of three children (ages 9, 5, and 3) has been seeing Annabelle, a mental health counselor at a community mental health center for about 4 months. She has become increasingly anxious over past few weeks and reports that she feels frightened all the time, is unable to sleep through the night, and worries that “something horrible is going to happen.” She also admits to having a “couple of drinks” during the evening several times a week. Mary shared during her last session with Annabelle that she is very worried that she is a horrible mother and is afraid that her children will be taken away and placed in foster care.

Many chronic conditions can greatly affect an individual physically with some sort of chronic pain, mentally with depression, and socially by rendering them unable to work (Harris & Wallace, 2012). These effects can thus put strain on families and society as more individuals suffer from various chronic conditions. In recent years, many of those working as health care professionals, such as primary care providers (PCPs) are affected greatly by the widespread prevalence of chronic disease in the US. For PCPs, approximately 75% of their patients schedule visits for multiple chronic illnesses (Zamosky, 2013). This has caused a shift in health care to focus on tertiary prevention in limiting comorbidities and issues associated with chronic diseases. PCPs face challenges by having less time to treat chronic disease because they only having have approximately eighteen minutes to deal with on average seven issues for each patient (Zamosky, 2013). Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, insurance companies can no longer deny coverage or charge more for people with preexisting conditions which includes those with chronic diseases (ObamaCare Facts, n.d.). The ACA helps people with chronic illnesses to obtain insurance; however, since these people are insured

The purpose of this paper is to incorporate one family's experience of living with multiple chronic illnesses into the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) and Rolland's Chronic Health Challenge Framework. CFAM was developed by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright, a professor Emeritus of nursing and by Dr. Maureen Leahey, a manager of a mental health outpatient program both have over 25 years experience while still managing to supervise, teach, consult, write, and maintain a part-time clinical practice in individual, couple, and family therapy (Moxie, 2007). CFAM allows nurses to assess families during interviews. CFAM is a multidimensional framework consisting of three major categories: structural, dimensional and functional. (Wright & Leahey, 2005)

Sarah Burke was a 16 year old who was brought into the clinic by her distressed mother. Sarah’s attitude and behavior had been getting out of control and worsening. Fights with her mother, sister, and friends and outbursts/tantrums for her own reasons or no reason at all were a commonality. Mother was worried about her academic future and preexisting social relations. From her past, we learn that she has had a traumatic first few years with parental fighting involved and maltreatment. She lived with her mother because her father abused alcohol, drugs, and them verbally. Sarah’s fearful, nervous habit to be reticent around her father caused a hindering in her speech development during important developmental years.

In the 1900’s, an individual could expect to live on average of 49.2 years; by 2001 an average of 76.9 years (Rice and Fineman, 2004). This increase in life expectancy resulted from the reduction of infant mortality as well as the declining death rates from chronic diseases (Rice and Fineman, 2004). Improvements of living conditions, lifestyles, technology and pharmaceuticals are what to thank for this decrease in deaths from chronic diseases, however, it comes with a price (Rice and Fineman, 2004). With an increase in life expectancy comes an extension of living with chronic diseases which has coined the phrase “the failures of success” (Rice and Fineman, 2004, p. 462). Canadians have more complex medical

Currently, Suzette has been unemployed for over 5 months and collecting disability for her mental health issues while living in subsidized housing. She has no interest in finding a job and exhibits no concern about providing for her two children, a 6 year old daughter and 8 year old son. Suzette angrily reports for the past 2 years every time she talks to her step-mother, Lucille, “she yells at me that I am a neglectful mother. I really hate her.” Clinician observes Suzette as showing no interest in daily activities, seems fatigued and diminished interest in activities and relationships, the most concerning is her lack of interest in her children.

Lanesha is a 12 year old girl that has been having trouble with her temper and her anger in almost every aspect of her daily life. Her medicine and compliance to her treatment plan are no different. As a teenager, she does not want to continually be hassled and bothered. So to avoid this she constantly is telling the providers lies, or in her mind, “what they want to hear.” (http://support.mchtraining.net/national_ccce/case1/Flash/activity1.html). Lanesha has a sense of neglect from her grandmother because she states that she want to act like everything is fine as to appease her Grandmothers temperament. Marietta, also shares in frustration but also has a great deal of added stress as she also cares for her 10 year old grandchild and also her older ailing mother. Marietta exudes many of the qualities spoken by Dr. Horky in her presentation; her own age is taking a toll on her ability to care for Lanesha, she is worried about Lanesha. Due to Lanesha’s age and behavior however, Marietta is experiencing depression and grief. Almost portrays a sense that she has given up, like she has done all that she can. (Horky, n.d.). Other socioeconomic issues are in Marietta’s forefront.

Essentially, the concept chronic illness, is defined as a gradually advancing, long term illness that is controlled by continuous and multiple interventions. To represent this concept, I used a poster from Tumblr that displays the quote, “Sometimes I pretend to be normal…I go back to being me” (see appendix). Specifically, the quote is explained through the topics of concealment, ways of living, and adjustment

Personal Strife can either define one or break one. Whilst the vast majority face issues that produce a major subsequent impact immediately, a select few face the same battle everyday. Chronic illness are seldom discussed about nor mentioned amid conversation. Although it causes me great pain, I have matured from the experience: The daily life of growing up with juvenile Arthritis.