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How to Cope When Your Child Can't

Comfort, Help and Hope for Parents
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How to Cope When Your Child Can't offers compassionate guidance for parents navigating the pain and stress of supporting a child who is struggling to cope. Blending real parent stories with psychological research, it helps readers understand what is within their control and how to accept complex emotions like guilt, fear, and sadness. The book provides practical strategies and reassurance that, although challenges may feel isolating, hope and positive change are possible.
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Ideal for parents and carers of children facing mental health or emotional difficulties, as well as professionals supporting families in distress.

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Practical advice, tested techniques and real stories about what helps to offer comfort, help and hope to parents with an unhappy child.

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Parenting and caring for a child who is struggling to cope can be painful and stressful, and it can make it very hard to enjoy life yourself. Feelings of blame, guilt, sorrow, despair, fear and frustration may swirl around alongside a desperate desire to cure their pain.

Although parenting a child who is experiencing difficulties is a common problem, we can feel desperately alone when it happens to us. When someone we love is struggling - for whatever reason - we may become unhappy too. For countless parents and children, there are problems with no easy solutions. However, that's where How to Cope When Your Child Can't comes in. It aims to help us understand what we can and cannot do; to help us accept any distress, worry, anxiety, sadness or loss of control in our situations; to see that we can tolerate these things; and to know that there are ways to move forward.

This book is packed with stories from real parents, combined with information from psychological research. It will show you how you can manage to obtain comfort from knowing you are not alone, get help from resources and techniques that really work, and find hope that things can and do change for the better.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472139016

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Robinson

Illustration: 20 b/w integrated illustrations

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 205g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Roz Shafran (Author)

Roz Shafran is Professor of Translational Psychology at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. She is a clinical psychologist and has extensive clinical and research expertise in cognitive behavioural theory and treatment of psychological disorders across the age range. She has co-authored three self-help books and one edited book including Overcoming Perfectionism, The CBT Handbook and The Complete CBT Guide for Anxiety; she has written over 250 peer-reviewed publications. She has three children.

Ursula Saunders (Author)

Ursula Saunders is a fundraiser in the charity sector. Previously she worked for Radio 4 as a researcher and producer. She has two children.

Alice Welham (Author)

Alice Welham is a clinical psychologist and a lecturer at the University of Leicester. She has a broad range of interests in psychology and its clinical applications and has published research in a number of areas. She has two children.

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