When Your Parent Is Mentally Ill
think.kera.org April 21, 2021 17Parenting works best with scheduling and consistency, which can be a challenge for parents with a mental illness. Clinical psychologist Vinita Mehta joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how nearly one in four children worldwide have a parent with mental illness and how that can affect both child development and the parent-child relationship into adulthood. Her article published in Psychology Today is headlined “Growing Up With a Mentally Ill Parent: 3 Great Challenges.”