The children may experience an unstable environment at home, which may include abuse and neglect. They may witness things such as episodes of depression, withdrawal, poor interpersonal relationships with family and friends or self-loathing behaviors by their parents. A variety of interventions can be attempted to help alleviate the impacts of these behaviors which hinder the parent from providing a stable home life for their children. Parenting education programs, family psychiatric care and coaching/ mentoring programs have had success in helping ease the negative effects of the parent’s mental illness on the child.(3) However, genetics have also been attributed to these emotional/ behavior problems found in these
The children may experience an unstable environment at home, which may include abuse and neglect. They may witness things such as episodes of depression, withdrawal, poor interpersonal relationships with family and friends or self-loathing behaviors by their parents. A variety of interventions can be attempted to help alleviate the impacts of these behaviors which hinder the parent from providing a stable home life for their children. Parenting education programs, family psychiatric care and coaching/ mentoring programs have had success in helping ease the negative effects of the parent’s mental illness on the child.(3) However, genetics have also been attributed to these emotional/ behavior problems found in these