  This paper discusses a 5-year PhD project, focused upon the implementation of
social robots for general child and family care settings in the Netherlands.
The project is a collaboration with general Dutch family care organisations as
well as specialized child mental health care organisations. The project adapts
a bottom-up, participatory design approach, where end users are included in all
stages of the project. End users consist of children, parents, and family care
professionals, who all have different needs, regarding the social robot
behaviors as well as the participatory design methods. This paper provides
suggestions to deal with these differences in designing social robots for child
mental support in real-world settings.
