How to Cope When Your Child Can't

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.