Severe mental illness - patients' children needs.

Psychiatr Danub

University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty, Slovenia.

Published: September 2009

Care for families and children of people with severe mental illness is a professionally and politically neglected issue. The majority of countries provide only services for several needs of the patients' families, i.e. treatment, custody and counselling. Management of stress and resolving of common problems are rarely addressed. Children of people with mental illness reflect and call professional attention to this issues. The deficiency of services is to be addressed by multidisciplinary team efforts. In the Slovenian organization of health services coordination could be provided by family physicians.

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