Roles in Caregiving Families

Theme 1 – Roles in Caregiving Families

Family members discuss ways in which they deal with and work through issues associated with mental illness in the context of their family roles.  Subjects include caring for and receiving care from their family members despite life’s many other challenges, and how families deal with mental illness across generations.

Family members talk about their roles within their caregiving families ​as caregivers and care-receivers, and how they navigate these roles with ​other members of their family.

Family members describe their responsibilities, both within and outside of their caregiving families, as well as strategies they use to cope with the multiple demands.

Family members discuss their families’ experiences of mental illness and caregiving across generations, and insights they have gained as a result.