Parent-child activity groups may help to rebuild the parent-child bond when a child is living in a psychiatric hospital.

Some parents have trouble working and living with a child with autism. They spend so much time each day on autism treatments that they do not spend time together as parent and child. Parents may also expect that everything with their child will be hard and that expectation may actually make things even more difficult. This article describes a parent-child activity group that helped parents learn to work with their children. The group helped not only the parents, but also the families of the children with autism.