Alliance formation with parents: limit-setting and the effect of mandated reporting.
The ability of parents to cooperate in their children's treatment is not fixed, but is a potential that evolves in a clinical relationship. Such clinical work includes a hierarchy of limit-setting, ranging from education to legal intervention. The experience of an inpatient child psychosomatic service indicates that such limit-setting was relevant in more than 50% of cases, and served to enhance the alliance with parents and children.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012306:Risk; D014481:United States