This project will work to describe the impact on children and their families of a childhood psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
While psychotic mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often develop in adolescence, there are less common cases where symptoms start between 4 and 12 years of age. The impact of a psychotic illness on the child and there family has not been well-described. Examples of incompletely described effects including questions like “What is the impact on the life of the family”, “How does the illness of one child affect goals of other family members,” “What is the financial impact,” and several similar questions.
Students will have the opportunity to do preliminary literature research in order to examine the current knowledge about these disorders in children. Students on this project would learn to interview children about having the disorder and interview families about the impact of the illness on their family. The method of research in this project is qualitative.
Preceptor Information |
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| Name: | Randy Ross |
| Department: | Psychiatry |
| Location: | Colorado Psychiatric Hospital Building; Room 1K12 |
| 9th Avenue and Colorado Blvd. Campus | |
| Contact: | 303-315-0118 |
| randy.ross@uchsc.edu | |
| Faculty/Lab Website: | www.developmentalresearch.org |
Position Information |
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| Openings | 1-2 |
| Funding: | No |