Parenting children with mental health challenges
Subtitle: a guide to life with emotionally complex kids
By: Deborah Vlock
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781538105245
Subjects: Parent and child; Parents of mentally ill children; Mentally ill children
Description: Drawing on her own experiences and those of other parents, plus tips from mental health professionals, Vlock suggests ways of parenting smarter, partnering better, and living more fully and less fearfully in the shadow of childhood psychiatric illness. Offers overwhelmed readers guidance, solidarity, and hope.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: How do you know your child has a mental health disorder?; title: At home with mental illness/mental illness at home; title: When you must get out and about; title: When school makes your kid sick(er); title: Maintaining your healthy relationships, ditching the toxic ones; title: The key to better access and care may be at the tip of your tongue; title: Afterword.