Parent Participation is the Gold Standard

“Community-based child and adolescent mental health services routinely involve parents along parents along with their children; indeed, parent participation is a hallmark of gold standard child mental health interventions. There are compelling reasons for tackling the issue of parent involvement in concert with focused attention to children’s mental health needs. Families provide the primary social context in which children function, influence access to services and shape attitudes toward service use that are critical to outcomes” (Kemp, 2009).