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Glossary: Motherhood, SMI & Psychiatric Rehabilitation
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- Serious mental illness (SMI)
- A category of mental disorders that substantially interfere with major life activities. Definitions vary by study and public system; in motherhood research it denotes conditions with significant functional impact.
- Motherhood declined
- A theme from Mizock et al. (2019) describing women with SMI who opt out of motherhood as part of their relationship to the parenting role.
- Motherhood derailed
- A theme from Mizock et al. (2019) describing interrupted or blocked plans for parenting among women with SMI.
- Motherhood disabled
- A theme from Mizock et al. (2019) describing disability-related constraints on enacting a hoped-for parenting role.
- Motherhood reimagined
- A theme from Mizock et al. (2019) describing alternate ways women with SMI embody or redefine the motherhood role.
- Mattering through motherhood
- A theme from Mizock et al. (2019) describing motherhood (or aspiration to it) as a source of significance, identity, and feeling that one matters.
- Psychiatric rehabilitation
- Services and practices that support people with psychiatric disabilities to live, learn, and work in the community with self-determination and recovery-oriented goals.
- Self-determination (parenting decisions)
- In clinical practice around SMI and parenting, centering the woman’s values and goals when deciding whether to have children and what supports are needed—rather than imposing a single presumed path.