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• Title: Maternal Custody Status and Living Arrangements of Children of Women with Severe Mental Illness.
• Author : Health and Social Work
• Release Date : January 01, 2004
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 227 KB

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Historically, psychiatric treatment of women patients in public hospitals was consistent with Test and Berlin's (1981) assertion that mental health professionals tend to regard individuals with severe or serious mental illness (SMI) as "almost genderless" (p. 136). Hospital administrators and staff denied or ignored the sexuality of the women patients and quietly managed the births of forbidden children by placing them in foster homes or arranging for their adoption (Apfel & Handel, 1993; Sands, 1995). The transformation of mental health care delivery from public psychiatric hospitals to community-based services and advancements in psychopharmacology, have increased opportunities for women with SMI to pursue normal life developmental tasks such as sexual relationships, childbirth, and parenthood (Miller, 1997; Nicholson & Blanch, 1994; Oyserman, Mowbray, & Zemencuk, 1994). In fact, fertility rates for women with a severe mental illness are estimated to equal those of women in the general population (Apfel & Handel, 1993; Miller; Nimgaonkar, Ward, Agarde, Weston, & Ganguli, 1997; Saugstad, 1989).

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