Data from recent years has shown a disturbing increase in the number of adolescents experiencing suicidal ideations, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicide attempts. Adolescents' suicidality significantly affects their parents and is associated with parents elevated depression, anxiety, and insomnia symptoms. ​Previous studies have mostly explored parents' role in the development of their child's suicidal behavior, including how parents' mental state is associated with their involvement in their child's treatment, all from a child-focused perspective.​In this study, we would like to illuminate parent’s subjective experience by investigating how the parent stress-appraisal-coping process may affect caregiver trajectories for illness-related stress.