Parenting a child with chronic pain

This leaflet is for par­ents of chil­dren and young peo­ple with chron­ic pain. It looks at some of the chal­lenges and how you can face them with top tips from par­ents, health­care pro­fes­sion­als and young people.

If you would like to know more about the sources of evi­dence con­sult­ed for this pub­li­ca­tion click here.

Fur­ther resources

Vis­it painconcern.org.uk/families-and-children for links to more resources and to lis­ten to pod­casts fea­tur­ing children’s pain and the needs of fam­i­ly and carers.

Lis­ten to our Air­ing Pain radio pro­grammes on chil­dren and young adults in pain:

• Air­ing Pain 118: Pain Man­age­ment In Young People
  
• Air­ing Pain 99: Tran­si­tion ser­vices for ado­les­cents with chron­ic pain
• Air­ing Pain 78: Putting Children’s Pain in the Picture
• Air­ing Pain 40: Chil­dren in Pain
• Air­ing Pain 10: Young Peo­ple In Pain
• Air­ing Pain 3: Chil­dren in Pain