TY - JOUR
T1 - Sibling stories of parental mental distress
AU - O'Neill, Wendy
AU - Nel, Pieter W.
AU - Horley, Nic
AU - Nolte, Lizette
N1 - © 2024 The Authors. Journal of Family Therapy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
PY - 2024/5
Y1 - 2024/5
N2 - This paper reports on the results of a study exploring sibling stories of parental mental distress and the societal discourses that may have contributed to the adult siblings' sense‐making. Four sibling pairs were purposively recruited and interviewed, using a narrative inquiry approach. Two main plots were constructed through analysis of the participants' narratives: ‘The story of us’ and ‘We are who we are because of what happened’. Results highlighted that the identity construction of each sibling and the collective identities of the sibling pairs are influenced by the parental mental health context. The findings also suggest a change in the siblings' meaning‐making from childhood to adulthood. These findings are considered along with the implications for systemic practice and research.
AB - This paper reports on the results of a study exploring sibling stories of parental mental distress and the societal discourses that may have contributed to the adult siblings' sense‐making. Four sibling pairs were purposively recruited and interviewed, using a narrative inquiry approach. Two main plots were constructed through analysis of the participants' narratives: ‘The story of us’ and ‘We are who we are because of what happened’. Results highlighted that the identity construction of each sibling and the collective identities of the sibling pairs are influenced by the parental mental health context. The findings also suggest a change in the siblings' meaning‐making from childhood to adulthood. These findings are considered along with the implications for systemic practice and research.
KW - intergenerational family therapy
KW - sibling relationships
KW - sibling experience
KW - parents' psychological distress
KW - parental mental health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85189951473&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-6427.12452
DO - 10.1111/1467-6427.12452
M3 - Article
SN - 0163-4445
VL - 46
SP - 121
EP - 139
JO - Journal of Family Therapy
JF - Journal of Family Therapy
IS - 2
ER -