Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery: Stories of Hope

✍ Scribed by Nikole Benders-Hadi, Mary E. Barber (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 mothers with serious mental illness are followed by personal accounts of clients reflecting on their parenting experiences. One goal of the book is to provide clinicians with information that they can use to help patients struggling with questions and barriers in their attempts to parent. The inclusion of personal accounts of mothers on issues such as stigma, fears and discrimination in the context of parenting with a mental illness is intended to promote the message of mental illness recovery to a larger audience as well. Finally, it is hoped that this handbook will help inspire more research on mothers with mental illness and the creation of more services tailored to their needs.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Supporting Mothers Living with Mental Illnesses in Recovery....Pages 3-17
Modes of Experience and Understanding: Parenting Assessment for Mothers with Serious Mental Illness and Child Protective Service Involvement....Pages 19-31
When Your Patient Has Children: How the Clinician Can Support Good Parenting....Pages 33-44
Mothers Are Everywhere: Finding Stories of Motherhood in a State Psychiatric Hospital....Pages 45-52
Pregnancy and the Perinatal Period....Pages 53-71
Substance Use Disorders and Motherhood....Pages 73-87
Legal Issues Regarding Children....Pages 89-108
LGBT Mothers....Pages 109-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Once Upon A Time I Was Silent....Pages 121-125
Moving Out of Darkness....Pages 127-133
As My Heart Beats....Pages 135-138
Don’t Give Up....Pages 139-142
Pregnant on the Psychiatric Unit: One Woman’s Journey Through the State Mental Health System and into Motherhood....Pages 143-146
There and Back Again....Pages 147-150
Be True to Yourself....Pages 151-154
Second Chance Motherhood....Pages 155-159
Love Endures Time....Pages 161-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Postpartum Psychosis Forever Changed My Life....Pages 165-168
Shine Your Light into Darkness....Pages 169-173
Finding Hope When There Is None....Pages 175-179
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Too Few Memories....Pages 181-187
Until a Better Time Comes....Pages 189-193
Post-Traumatic Mothering....Pages 195-200
Emotional High to Deep Despair....Pages 201-207
It’s Okay to Get Help....Pages 209-211
Hope Soars....Pages 213-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Motherhood Saved My Life....Pages 219-224
The Darkness Isn’t So Dark Anymore....Pages 225-229
An Eccentric Mother....Pages 231-236
Together We Are Whole....Pages 237-239
Worried Sick: Postpartum Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder....Pages 241-248
Little Rays of Sunshine....Pages 249-254
Healing Daughter, Healing Mother....Pages 255-262
Learning, Loving, and Giving Back....Pages 263-267
The Best Mother I Can Be....Pages 269-274
No Perfect Parent....Pages 275-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
A Day in the Life of Bipolar Disorder....Pages 279-284
Family Secrets....Pages 285-291
Find Your Light....Pages 293-299
Mental Illness and the Pursuit of Stability Across Three Generations....Pages 301-306
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Coming into the Light....Pages 307-311
Hard Work and Love....Pages 313-318
An Unquiet Mom: Much More Than a Memoir of a Mother with Bipolar Disorder and Substance Abuse....Pages 319-326
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Shadow Mothers....Pages 329-332
River of Resilience: A Daughter’s Memories of Becoming Whole....Pages 333-344
Reaching Back for Reason and Resilience....Pages 345-351

✦ Subjects

Psychiatry; Clinical Psychology; Medicine/Public Health, general; Psychoanalysis