What is it about?
Parents who are raising an adolescent or young adult child who has psychological or behavioral problems need the right support and tools navigation to take care of their child and themselves. The social services community and the courts expect parents to be lifetime guardians but offer little to aid them in this stewardship. Parents need their own resources to 'recover' from the trauma of parenting a child with mental illness.
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Why is it important?
This article is the foundation for a new social movement to validate parents' right and need to be fully supported politically and technically to deliver the best quality of life to a child who will need financial, legal, medical help his or her entire lifetime.
Perspectives
This matters because parents need a stronger voice and legitimacy in the behavioral healthcare landscape. Treating a psychiatric illness (think medical world) does nothing to help manage the day-to-day effects of the illness on the life of the patient (think parent world).
Mr Thomas OConnor
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This page is a summary of: Understanding the Parenting Experience of A Child With Mental Illness and the Construct of Parent Recovery within the Social Service and Court Communities, Family Court Review, January 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/fcre.12204.
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