Parents of children with emotional disorders: issues for consideration and practice.

Parents with children who have serious emotional disorders face significant personal and family issues in their parental role. Professionals providing services to these families must be sensitive to a variety of issues if they are to provide an emphathic context when these families are seeking help. This paper will explore the stress these families incur, the loss they experience, and the resources needed for coping and the preservation of family integrity. Practice implications will be addressed.