ABSTRACT
It is not unusual for clinicians to fi nd themselves concerned about aspects of parenting in the clinical setting that point to varying degrees of confusion on the part of parents about their parenting task and responsibilities. Confusions also arise when parents appear to have little idea of the physical and emotional milestones of their children’s development. It is often these parental confusions that bring children and young people into the consulting room where the presenting problem is hard to disentangle given the fraught parent-child interaction.
