The role of the family in youth psychiatric readmission: a scoping review
Amos-Silvio Erik Friedrich, Magdalena Siegel, Joy Busch, Madlene Radosavljevic, Guy Bodenmann, Martina Zemp · 2026
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Family life after a young person's psychiatric hospital stay is mapped by Friedrich and colleagues. Up to a third of children and adolescents return to inpatient psychiatric care within a year, usually within three months. Reviews have struggled to synthesise family factors because studies define them so differently. The team reviewed eighty-three reports, mostly retrospective record-based studies from the United States, covering caregiving setting, family psychiatric history, and involvement in treatment.
Readmission linked most consistently to disrupted or burdened caregiving, including foster or institutional care, to psychiatric problems within the family, and to patterns of treatment involvement. By contrast, research on specific family processes, such as communication or conflict, remains sparse despite its known importance in adult psychiatry. Friedrich and colleagues conclude that family factors matter for youth readmission, while calling for forward-looking studies that capture family processes and short-term risks more directly.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Amos-Silvio Erik Friedrich, Magdalena Siegel, Joy Busch, Madlene Radosavljevic, Guy Bodenmann, Martina Zemp |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 63 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |