Nurse-provided social support can be very effective for parents of children with chronic mental illness. Nurses work closely with patients and families and have developed deep relationships and trust. They understand the daily struggles of coping with a chronic condition better than others. While social networks and support groups can also be helpful, nurses are uniquely positioned to provide meaningful support through their interactions with patients and families on a regular basis. It is important for nurses to support both the children dealing with mental illness and their parents navigating related social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.

1. Vivian
There is a great and positive potential effectiveness resulting
from professional nurse-provided social support versus
enhancement of social support provided by personal relationship
and social networks for parents of children with chronic mental
illness. The biggest possible impact of this is that the support
can be the most impactful on the nurses so that they feel
supported at the highest possible level. This can occur because
nurses know what the other nurses are going through more than
anyone else. There is no one else, not another health care
professional or person in the general population, who is in the
shoes of the nurse. Therefore, the outside perspective that the
person has can make it harder for that person to provide the
most effective support for nurses just because they do not know
exactly what they are going through or how it feels. But, when
nurses provide this support to one another, there is a deeper
connection that can occur because there is a shared experience,
where the nurse can better identify and understand what the
nurse is going through or how the nurse feels (Stelnicki et al.,
2020).
Another reason why the professional nurse-provided support is
effective is that the nurses work more closely with one another
throughout the course of day. This closeness in the workplace
can allow better relationships to be built, and so when the
support is provided by another nurses, it can feel more genuine
to a nurse. This is because the other nurses is someone who the
nurse trusts. Therefore, what the other nurse says and does
within the realm of providing support to that nurse can be taken
with greater feeling and trust behind it by the nurse (Stelnicki et
al., 2020).

2. Now, when it comes to supporting the parents of children with
chronic mental illness, the nurse-provided support can be so
much more impactful in a positive way. This can happen
because the nurses work the closest with the patients and their
parents, which means that they could have the best
communications and deepest relationships. This means that the
patients’ parents could have more trust for the nurses than they
would others in social support groups. This is why nurses being
supportive is so important in health care for the patients and
their family members or support system members (Stelnicki et
al., 2020).
With all of this being said, it does not suggest or imply that the
enhancement of social support provided by personal relationship
and social networks for parents of children with chronic mental
illness is not effective. It can be very effective and should still
be used when the patients’ parents are interested in trying
it. but, there should still be support from the nurses to the
patients and their parents because they will be in need of
it. dealing with any chronic condition can be very difficult, and
mental health conditions can be so challenging to cope with on
a daily basis, and this means that there will likely be struggles
that the parents will need support to handle and overcome
(Murn, 2019).
Livan
Mental health in children is undoubtedly a situation that
deserves and needs all the necessary attention. The United
States is one of the countries that exhibits alarming figures
related to the mental health crisis in children and adolescents.
The largest number of cases are presented with aberrant, violent
or even depressive behaviors that may go unnoticed by many
parents or they simply do not want to see. Another group
presents with already known diseases such as hyperactivity

3. disorder, depression, mental retardation, schizophrenia,
bipolarity and others.
One of the elements common to all these disorders is that they
represent an emotional, stressful and very complex factor for
parents. From the medical point of view, dealing with children
with mental illnesses also implies paying attention to their
parents. Our work as nurse practitioners must include
supporting the social, behavioral, and emotional needs of both
children and their parents. One of the most logical ways to
address this issue in our daily practice is the social and
emotional support that we can provide through face-to-face
interaction with parents. It is a form that human beings
appreciate. Direct attention is important, being able to listen,
evaluate, look at every detail of behavior or simply hold hands
in ours.
The social development that is increasingly technological has
been isolating each person in their own world or space. For this
change in social life we must also be prepared and use its
advantages. In all this context, social networks appear, develop
and are increasingly applied, where interaction through digital
platforms constitutes the most common form of human
interaction. Currently many of these platforms are used to
provide social support to many people who use them and where
parents of children with mental illnesses also benefit. If I were
to give my opinion on advantages or disadvantages, or the most
effective way to interact or provide support to these parents, I
would prefer to say that the most important thing is the support
and not the way in which it can be provided. It is up to us as
nurses to always be present for these children and their parents,
which also implies teaching them to use and benefit from the
potential that currently represents all the social support they can
receive through social networks and different digital platforms.
With this work we will learn to value the importance of social

4. support for parents with children suffering from a mental
illness. The role that we play as nurse practitioners in a scenario
like this and above all to contribute and help in social networks
so that these parents do not feel alone or abandoned in difficult
situations such as caring for a child with this type of illness.