GETTING Results for Children & Adolescents
Psychologists will use a variety of strategies & techniques to get the very best results for our young clients. We understand how a child’s and adolescent’s development will impact on their thinking, feeling, communication and behaviour and utilise this knowledge to help them and their parents influence positive change.
Counselling for Children and Adolescents an assist young clients to talk through and better understand the problem(s) in a safe and friendly environment. We support young clients to develop and use healthy coping skills, learn strategies that promote resilience, identify and use their character strengths and find solutions that work for them.
[Download Child & Adolescent Psychological Services Brochure]
We work with young clients through the following:
- Bullying
- Anxiety and Panic Attacks
- Depression and Sadness
- Problems at School
- Managing Technology Abuse (Internet, ipods, mobile phones)
- Behavioural Issues
- Stress and Worries
- Social and Emotional difficulties
- Family and relationship problems
- Life transitional issues
- Grief and Loss
- Fears and Phobias
Family Counselling can assist families to work through complex dynamics that might be preventing them from being happy and peaceful. All family members can participate in family counselling – even Grandma!
Family counselling is often used to resolve:
- Parent / Adolescent Conflict
- Marital relationship difficulties
- Conflicts between parents about different approaches to parenting
- Having more ‘fun’
Parent Education & Support is vitally important in the development of flourishing families. We acknowledge that the vast majority of parents want the absolute best for their children, but the reality is we were never formally taught how to be ‘awesome parents’. Most parenting is simply ‘learned behaviour’ from remembering how our own parents parented us. Sometimes what we learned was fantastic, and other times, not so great and occasionally what we learned from our parents was actually quite emotionally damaging. There are decades of research of ‘better parenting’ techniques, so why not find out about them.
Common difficulties faced by parents include:
- Tantrums & other behaviour problems
- Children not Sleeping or Bedwetting
- School refusal & academic performance
- Sibling rivalry & fighting
- Internet misuse
- Chores and developing responsible kids/teens
- Managing strong Adolescent emotions (anger, sadness, disappointment)
- & 100′s of other ‘common’ issues
Ask a Nasihah Psychologist for more information about our parenting programs,
1). [Download Brochure: Better Parenting]: Parenting Adolescents
2). Signposts for Parents: Parenting young children (Download Brochure)