Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 52, Issue 1 , Pages 75-80 , January 2011

Insight into mental illness, self-stigma, and the family burden of parents of persons with a severe mental illness

  • Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Itamar Levy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
    • ,
  • Shlomo Kravetz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
    • ,
  • Adi Vollanski-Narkis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
    • ,
  • David Roe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.04.008

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 52, Issue 1 , Pages 75-80 , January 2011

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