In any family, regardless of its well-being, children get sick, and this is always stressful for parents. But different families have different reactions to a child’s illness. In one family, the whole system is immediately activated, grandparents, distant aunts come running with various folk recipes, in another they call an ambulance, in a third they hope that “it will resolve itself.” Regardless of the disease (common cold, chronic disease), behavioral strategies are preserved. How does this affect the child’s health? If a child is ill, all family members, as well as the child himself, have some idea of ​​what is happening. Based on these ideas, parents react in a certain way to a sick child, and family interaction is organized based on this fact. Often these ideas play a decisive role in how successful the treatment and rehabilitation of the child will be. Parents can unknowingly (in no way wishing anything bad for the child) aggravate the child’s condition or interfere with recovery. An excellent illustration of such a film is "Above the Sky". The actions and reactions of parents can provoke a worsening of the condition or the appearance of new symptoms. This is possible in the following cases: 1. Exaggeration of the severity of the disease, when a sick child is given up on, and all this is accompanied by either overprotection of the child, the desire to protect him from all difficulties, or an attitude towards the child as an outsider “he still can’t be cured.”2. Denial, non-acceptance of the fact of the disease. A medical diagnosis can often cause fear in parents, especially with regard to mental illness, and as a result, denial of this. Parents cannot accept that they may have a sick child; this may be due to both the fear of losing the child and the fear of being socially unacceptable.3. Downplaying the severity of the disease, when parents underestimate the painful condition and make demands that are beyond the child’s strength, falling into inadequate expectations from him. For example, parents consider it infinitely prestigious for the child to graduate from university and ignore the child’s abilities and mental state. So they can blame the child for laziness, for lack of diligence, ignoring the lack of ability to study mathematics, for example, and thereby cause a depressive state, which will be ignored by them and explained by laziness.4. Distorted perception of illness: It may be convenient for parents to perceive their child as sick. For example, when a child’s illness acts as a link between parents, and thanks to this, marital problems can be postponed until later, and united around the illness. All these features of perception can manifest themselves in the following form: - a passive position, where all responsibility is shifted to doctors and other specialists. - infantilization and overprotection; excessive or underestimated demands on the child; denial that the child requires training in a special institution or correctional classes; refusal of medical care