Partnerships with Parents to Promote Healthy Development

Abstract

Partnerships with parents are an essential strategy for promoting children's healthy development. Partnerships, themselves, also comprise a context for promoting and sustaining mental health among adults and communities at large. We must foster parents' own development in order to support their role as fully participating partners in mental health promotion; such development guides their abilities and propensity to create and sustain growth‐enhancing environments. The Listening Partners Program is an example of a program that pursued such a goal.

Citation

Bond, L. (1999), "Partnerships with Parents to Promote Healthy Development", Journal of Public Mental Health, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465729199900027