Parenting Matters: Parenting a child with mental health issues

Many adopted and looked after children experience particular health issues or other difficulties, sometimes due to their early experiences of loss and trauma. This book focuses on mental health issues. If you are adopting or fostering a child, this guide will give you practical and realistic information on what this condition may mean for your child, along with their symptoms, prognosis and treatment.

The first half of this guide provides expert knowledge coupled with facts, figures and guidance presented in a straightforward and accessible style. It examines a range of mental health issues, including exploration of nature/nurture, the effect of family upbringing, diagnosis, the neurobiology of mental health issues and stress, and where to get help for your child and family. 

In the second half, a range of adopters describe their experiences of parenting children with mental health issues, and how this affected, and continues to affect, day-to-day family life, sharing their parenting experience and offering useful advice.

This book is part of CoramBAAF’s Parenting Matters series which explores many of the health conditions commonly diagnosed in looked after children.

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