Conceptual approaches to studying family caregiving for persons with severe mental illness

This article critically analyzes the conceptual frameworks commonly used to study family caregivers who have a family member with a severe mental illness. Those frameworks that are commonly in use present significant limitations to the study of the family as a whole. In contrast, the Family Resiliency Model permits family level analysis. The authors present this model and argue for its use in studying families with members who have a severe mental illness. © 2000 Sage Publications, Inc.

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Author Catherine Lynch Gilliss School of Nursing