This study aimed at examining the interrelation between family functioning and children’s mental health in families with a brain injured parent. The first goal of this study was to investigate the predictive power of fam- ily functioning for children’s psychological well-being. Second, differential sub-dimensions of family function- ing were examined in respect of their predictive power for chil...

Abstract A severely ill person has to cope with medical procedures, hospitalization etc. If this person is a parent, those consequences affect the entire family, which may result in a lasting distortion of children's development. The aim was to evaluate the process of implementing family-oriented preventive psychological services for children and families with a severely acute central nervous s...