Date of Award
Winter 12-19-2003
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN)
Department
Nursing
Abstract
There have been few studies that have attempted to understand the world of parents raising a child with depression. This study introduces the magnitude of the problem of childhood depression and explores what it means to be the mother of an adolescent with depression. For this study, three mothers of adolescents wit.h depression were questioned interviews were in unstructured interviews. The taped transcribed, and the resulting texts were Four core themes were analyzed using a six-stage process. extracted-maternal role, support, and grief-and reveal_ed what it was family disequilibrium, like for mothers raising a child with depression. Hermeneutic phenomenology provided the philosophical framework for this study.
Identifier
SC 11.MAN.2003.Brose.MR
Recommended Citation
Brose, Maralou R., "A Lived Experience of Being a Mother of a Child with Depression: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry" (2003). Theses and Graduate Projects. 545.
https://idun.augsburg.edu/etd/545