Parenting Mentally Ill Children: Faith, Caring, Support, and Surviving the System

by Craig Winston Lecroy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313358680
• ISBN13: 9780313358685
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years