Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. What Do Patients Say about Program Planning? Perspectives from the Patient-Authored Literature 7
7. Families and Mental Illness: What Have We Learned? 26
8. Reconceptualizing the Relationship among Families, Mental Illness, and the Mental Health System 38
9. Shifting Domains of Illness Management: A Model of Familial Relationships in Families with a Mentally III Relative 46
10. Out of the Ashes of Mental Illness ... A New Life 58
11. From 'Mad' to 'Bad': Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System 67
12. The Loss of a Child to Mental Illness 78
13. The Forgotten Sibling 90
14. The Impact of Parental Affective Disorders on Families 105
15. Mental Illness and Parenting Capacity: Assessing for Risk and Planning for Children 120
16. Loss of Parents through Mental Illness: The Recovery of a Six-Year-Old Boy 139
17. Dyadic Circularity in the Mother-Infant Relationship 154