The rules change when. your child is suffering with their mental health. What was acceptable and accepted before doesn’t compute. And as parents, we need to learn new approaches to support our child as they battle mental illness, and to support ourselves and our family as life as we knew it feels outdated and out of reach.
At Parenting Mental Health, we believe that us parents can effect massive change by understanding the experience of our child and modifying and adapting our behaviour, assumptions and expectations.
It’s not easy, and it challenges us as people as well as parents, so we offer a range of Programs to support you including our 6 week Partnering course, run by Suzanne Alderson who developed the approach and used it to support her daughter to recovery, to self esteem programs for parents and young people in partnership with Dove, to short trainings on self care, confidence, acceptance, active listening and building trust. Visit our Courses Page for more information.
You can also buy Suzanne’s book here, which details her experiences and how to Partner, not Parent your child through poor mental health.