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Helping Your Children
Parenting Your Children
We know how both CHALLENGING and EXCITING the process of parenting can be. We would like to support you in experiencing these processes by sharing what has worked with other parents and what we have experienced to be effective in our work with children.
Helping Your Children Recover From Trauma/Injury
As much as we would like to protect our children from everything, we know we can't. Events such as divorcee and separation, death in the family, being sexually, physically and/or emotionally abused do happen and do cause injury. When these occur, our job as parents is not one of blame or shame, rather to get our children some help in recovering.
- Get some therapy for your child/children.
Our job in helping your child in
therapy is to create an enriching (full of opportunity to explore) and safe (no one needing anything from him/her) environment where the child can express and release whatever is causing the acting-out behavior. We also invite the child to resolve the internal trauma within play, sand tray, arts, verbal, or whatever medium may work to help your child heal. We want the parent/s to participate in this process and to keep them in the loop of progress while maintaining the confidentiality of the child. Parents will be informed if their child is a danger to self or others and whenever there is a need for their intervention. We believe parent participation is essential and we see parents as consultants and resources to our work with their children. Whenever necessary, parent/s will be invited into the sessions. Sometimes the most effective way to work with children is in a family setting.
- Get some support for yourself.
We invite you to consider getting
therapy for yourselves as necessary to provide you with skills and to help you move through your injuries that could be interfering with the type of parenting you wish to do.
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