This workbook is a guide for the development of self-help/advocacy groups for parents of children and adolescents who have serious emotional problems. The workbook offers background information and then offers guidelines for: (1) creating a beginning plan for the development of a self-help/advocacy group; (2) developing concrete plans for accessing parents of children with emotional problems; (3) dealing with barriers faced in organizational development; (4) identifying agencies and professionals in the community that serve children with emotional problems and determining their level of commitment to parents; (5) writing an agenda for the first parent meeting; (6) developing ideas for the group's direction after the first several meetings; and (7) developing an idea of what the group will do together. Appendices contain examples of promotional posters and flyers, examples of newspaper notices, and a list of eight references and national organizational resources. (JDD)