Parenting - Behaviour management - Family relationships...
Anyone can experience emotional, relationship, behavioural and mental health problems that can severely disrupt their functioning - including children and adolescents. When a child or young person is having such difficulties it can be hard for the whole family! If left unaddressed, these problems can escalate and become more severe with adulthood.
Many children and adolescents find talking to somebody outside of the family helpful in dealing with these difficulties. Parents can also feel overwhelmed by the challenge of supporting their child at these times, and often benefit from support in thinking about these issues with a psychologist. I offer non-judgemental support and strategies to help you and your family deal with concerns early on before they become severe.
Many children and adolescents find talking to somebody outside of the family helpful in dealing with these difficulties. Parents can also feel overwhelmed by the challenge of supporting their child at these times, and often benefit from support in thinking about these issues with a psychologist. I offer non-judgemental support and strategies to help you and your family deal with concerns early on before they become severe.
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As research indicates that parental involvement improves the outcome for children engaged in therapy, I view parents as central to the therapeutic process. I work closely with families, particularly the primary caregivers, to assess what factors in the home, school and community might be contributing to and maintaining emotional and behavioural problems.
Following an initial assessment, I can offer:
Following an initial assessment, I can offer:
- Individually tailored therapeutic interventions to parents, children, adolescents and their families. Depending on the family situation and presenting difficulties, I can offer individual sessions to children and/or parents, as well as family interventions.
- Parenting Groups (all ages)
- Anger management groups for parents
- Psychoeducational emotion-management groups for adolescents
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The kind of concerns I can help parents (and parents-to-be) with include:
I can help children and teenagers with things like:
- Parenting advice and support to help you to feel more confident in your ability to understand and manage your child's behaviour and to support them in their emotional and social development (from birth through to adolescence). This support is available on an individual or group basis.
- Difficult relationships between you and your child, like arguing a lot of the time, feeling too distant or too close, experiencing negative feelings towards your child, finding it hard to enjoy spending time with you child, or difficulty in setting limits
- Disagreements between you and your partner or other family members about parenting
- Family worries following illness, bereavement or other issues affecting the family
- Changes at home or at school which may be affecting your child’s emotions and behaviour
- Behaviour management: Sleep problems, tantrums, fussy eating, aggressive behaviour, toilet-training, relationships with siblings and peers.
I can help children and teenagers with things like:
- Fear, unhappiness, depression, anger, anxiety and other difficult feelings
- Being withdrawn, being aggressive, taking risks and other difficult behaviour
- Bullying
- Coping with Parental illness or health problems
- Family changes (e.g. Parental or family separation, new baby, parent remarrying)
- Bereavement
- Relationships with family, friends or teachers
- Coping with life transitions and stresses (e.g. new school, exams, moving home)
- School difficulties (school refusal, truancy)
