Parenting Mentally Ill Children - Faith, Caring, Support, and Surviving the System (Hardcover)

This in-depth exploration uses individual portraits to show what parents face as they love and care for their mentally ill children and cope with how the mental health system has failed them. The Surgeon General has identified children's mental illness as a national problem that creates a burden of suffering so serious as to be considered a health crisis. Yet, what it means to be the parent of a mentally ill child has not been adequately considered-until now. Parenting Mentally Ill Children: Faith, Caring, Support, and Survival captures the essence of caring for these youngsters, providing resources and understanding for parents and an instructive lesson for society. Author Craig Winston LeCroy uses in-depth interviews to chronicle the experiences of parents of mentally ill children as they attempt to survive each day, obtain needed help, and reach out for support, and he lets them share their misunderstood emotions of shame, anger, fear, guilt, and powerlessness in the face of stigma from professionals, family, and friends. The book concludes with a critical appraisal of the social policies that must be implemented to help-and the reasons we should feel obligated to initiate them. More than 40 in-depth interviews giving parents the opportunity to tell their stories about caring for a child with a mental disorder An extensive bibliography of relevant material

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	March 2011
Authors:	Craig Winston LeCroy
Dimensions:	167 x 243 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	204
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-35868-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Child welfare Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the mentally ill
LSN:	0-313-35868-0
Barcode:	9780313358685

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