This book explores parents’ experiences of their child’s treatment in an adolescent mental health services in Sydney, Australia. It represents the incisive narratives of parents of a chronically struggling child.

“This book makes a truly important contribution to the literature on working with troubled children and their families. Dr Brown identifies a relatively simple model that leads to symptom improvement in children and can be exported to multiple clinical contexts. Thus, Dr Brown’s findings have impressive clinical relevance. This book crystalises her findings so that clinicians across the child and family sector can benefit from her efforts. I can endorse this book without reservation.”Louise Bordeaux Silverstein, PhDProfessor Emerita, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY.“Dr Brown’s research makes a crucial contribution to the literature on mental illness in children by shedding light on the impacts our clinical efforts have on parents and their parenting capacity. It obligates us to review our academic programs, treatment pathways, and clinical interventions to ensure that the onus of change is taken off the shoulders of already impaired children, away from professionals whose influence is time-limited, and restored to the parents inherently charged with this task.”Dr Holly McGovernClinical Psychologist, Head of Family Therapy, Kids & Co Clinical Psychology, Sydney, Australia.