IBD manifests during childhood or adolescence in 20% to 25% of patients [7]. This is a crucial time in children's development, both physically [8] and emotionally [9]. Children's relationships with family and peers change significantly over the course of their childhood. Normal social development sees children seeking more emotional support from peers over family members in their adolescent years [10]. However, adolescents with IBD do not follow this pattern [11] and tend to seek continued support from family members and rely on parents' coping strategies to deal with stressors [12]. With increased reliance on family support when dealing with a chronic illness like IBD, children may be faced with additional burden when their parents' are not able to offer them the emotional support they need or do not have coping skills that are effective enough to translate into increased care for their children. Despite this, no interventions (to the authors' knowledge) to benefit psychosocial functioning have been specifically studied in pediatric patients or families with IBD.