Parental counseling gives parents the space and time to express the difficulties they are concerned with regarding the functioning of the family. The main goal is to learn new communication skills in order to improve communication between all family members. Requests vary, they may relate to parenting difficulties, managing children's behaviour, the parents' relationship and the impact it has on the children and so on. They may also want to be informed about the smooth psycho-emotional development of their children as well as how to talk to the children about certain issues, e.g. divorce, loss, sexuality, etc.