de Boer, C., Cameron, G. & Frensch, K. Siege and Response: Reception and Benefits of Residential Children’s Mental Health Services for Parents and Siblings. Child Youth Care Forum 36, 11–24 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-006-9028-5
Interviews with 29 parents of children in residential mental health care found that parents valued the respite, being welcomed and understood, and improvements in their own and their family’s functioning, and the authors argue that these benefits to parents and siblings deserve as much weight as the needs of the child in care.