Mothering and Mental Health Care: Moral Sense-Making Among Mexican-American Mothers of Adolescents in Treatment.
Cult Med Psychiatry
; 48(3): 614-633, 2024 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-38896397
ABSTRACT
This article explores the experiences of Mexican American mothers who, confronted with the troubled emotions and behaviors of their adolescent children, felt compelled to seek help from mental health clinicians. Their experience is situated in the context of both psychiatrization, or the tendency to treat social problems as mental illness, and the landscape of contemporary mothering in the U.S., where maternal determinism, mother-blame, and the demand for intensive parenting hold sway. In this context, the moral crisis of mental health care-seeking for their children forces mothers to reconcile multiple competing stakes as they navigate the overlapping, and sometimes conflicting, moral-cultural worlds constituted by family and community, as well as mental health care providers. At the same time, it allows them an opportunity to creatively "reenvision" their ways of being mothers and persons. Their stories and struggles shed new light on contemporary conversations about psychiatrization, everyday morality, and mothering.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Americanos Mexicanos
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Princípios Morais
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Mães
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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Mexico
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cult Med Psychiatry
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Holanda