Walking on Eggshells: A Parent's Journey Raising an Emotionally Dysregulated Son.
Adolescent bipolar disorder
Child adolescent mood disorders
Child and adolescent emotion dysregulation
Diagnostically homeless
Explosive child/adolescent
Parenting troubled teen
Parent’s journey
Raising child with severe mood
Severe mood dysregulation
Journal
Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America
ISSN: 1558-0490
Titre abrégé: Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9313451
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2021
04 2021
Historique:
entrez:
21
3
2021
pubmed:
22
3
2021
medline:
26
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This article examines 2 themes in my 25-year journey raising a son with severe mood dysregulation, attention deficit with hyperactivity, and learning disabilities (MAL). Raising children with MAL significantly alters parents' own development, having to manage their children's chronic rages and aggression from toddlerhood through young adulthood. I propose a framework of periods parents go through, and describe a years-long progression of internal and behavioral adaptations necessary to parent these children effectively. The article suggests that more study is needed to understand how parents fare and what happens to them over time, and considers support that would improve their trajectory.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33743938
pii: S1056-4993(20)30116-4
doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2020.10.012
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
283-298Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Disclosure Names of some institutional organizations, as well as some other names and dates, have been changed or omitted to protect my child’s privacy.