Helping Children with Ill or Disabled Parents: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

When parents become ill or disabled, children often bear much of the burden. This guide to how both parents and children can get the help and support they need demonstrates the many ways in which teachers, doctors, social workers, therapists, and adult family members can assist in the process. Aimed at professionals and non-professionals, this text also includes advice on how parents themselves can help their children, as well as an appendix containing further sources of help and information.