Parents of adolescents with psychiatric disorders: insight into the disorder, self-stigma and parental stress.

Background: Parents of adolescents with mental disorders experience stress partially due to the way they perceive and experience their offspring's disorder. The current study assessed the mediator role of self-stigma in the relationship between insight into the disorder and parental stress of parents of adolescents with mental disorders.

Method: A total of 37 parents of adolescents with psychiatric disorders were assessed for their level of insight, self-stigma and parental stress.