In traditional Child - Centered Play Therapy, the trained play
therapist meets with parents or caregivers first and then works on his / her own with the child for a number of weeks or months.
Not exact matches
Decades later, many psychologists and
therapists now believe that the principles of attachment theory not only help
parents meet their children's emotional needs, but they can also help adult couples connect
with each other more consistently and love more fully.
Carolyn is currently an educational
therapist and educational consultant helping students,
parents, and schools
meet the challenges of gifted students
with learning challenges through her offices in Santa Monica, California.
If you have been curious about what CranioSacral is and how it can help your baby, this is an opportunity to get to know the work,
therapists in our community, and
meet other
parents with babies.
A
therapist might
meet with the child and
parent together or
meet with the child alone.
A
therapist might also
meet with a
parent to give tips and ideas for how to help their child at home.
I am an energetic, fun - loving
therapist who enjoys working creatively and cooperatively
with children and their
parents to help the children
meet their therapy goals.
Another advantage of collaborative divorce is that both parties
meet individually
with the
therapist and the financial planner to work out a financial plan and a
parenting plan for the settlement.
A CNA (custody neutral assessment) is a program used in some NJ counties (such as Burlington) in which a family
therapist meets with both parties (and sometimes the children, depending on their age) for one extended session and does an abbreviated evaluation of what
parenting plan would be in the children's best interest, in that evaluator's opinion, based on the one - session
meeting.
It involves announced and unannounced visits
with both spouses, observations of the child
with each
parent, interviews
with the child and discussions and
meetings with teachers, doctors and
therapists.
Parental participation is paramount such that the
parents are strongly urged to
meet with the
therapist on a regular basis to participate in treatment in a conjoint manner.
Fourteen children worked
with the CBT group
therapist while
parents met in a separate group.
You will have the opportunity to
meet with the child's social worker and other significant people in his or her life, such as foster
parents and
therapists, to assist you in your decision - making process.
Trainees will
meet with parents and the lead
therapist to discuss the child and the day's planned interventions, engage the child in a diagnostic play therapy session, and participate in group therapy sessions.
When you are married, the consent of one
parent works, though in my opinion no
therapist should be working
with a child before
meeting both
parents.
A
therapist meeting with the child without letting both
parents know, is alienating that
parent.
Meeting privately
with a child
therapist also may make your children more willing to share personal issues than in front of their separating
parents.
After the visit, a
meeting is held
with the
therapist and non-custodial
parent to debrief the visit.
Step 3: The assigned
therapist will
meet with each
parent individually to screen for issues that could impact therapeutic progress, to discuss the process of therapeutic visitations, to review documents and expectations for therapeutic visitations, as well as assess the visiting
parent's readiness to begin therapeutic visits.
At the first session (intake), the
therapist will
meet with the
parent (s) / care giver (s) without the child present.
Medical issues in therapy are explored, followed by
parent profiles, working
with angry
parents,
meetings between
parents and
therapists, and a good discussion of special issues.»
Initial interview: This is a 1 - hour interview in which both
parents and adolescents
meet with a
therapist or
parent consultant regarding the family's needs.
At these
meetings,
therapists are able to provide
parents with useful feedback and insights about their child.
In other cases, however, the reunification
therapist would likely spend time
meeting individually
with the children and then
with the
parents separately before
meeting with both the child and the reunifying
parent together.
Although play
therapists provide confidentiality for their child clients, they still
meet regularly
with parents.
I'm not a marriage counselor or a family
therapist or a psychologist, so feel free to take my words
with a grain of salt, but as a married mother of two and having planned several cooperative
parenting meetings for API of Peoria, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this issue over the past five years.
SOMETIMES
PARENTS BRING A PERSON TO THE
MEETING AS PART OF THE TEAM — I've been in
meetings with the child's
therapist, a friend of the family, a family advocate, and a handful of people that offered some other type of support in the child's life.
DDP is an experiential therapy, meaning that it involves continuous reciprocal experiences between the
therapist and child and the
parent and child,
with the adult reading non-verbal cues and providing a response to the child, adjusting his interactions to
meet the child's needs.
During
parent meetings, the
therapist gave clinical impressions and provided guidance on dealing
with problematic behaviors at home from the point of view of the expert.
«For the past 20 + years, I have worked as a
therapist in academic, community - based programs, and private practice helping children, adolescents, and young adults develop the coping skills necessary to be successful in school, at home, and in the community while providing
parents with the guidance and support needed to best
meet the needs of their children.»
The reunification
therapist spends time individually
with the child and
with the reunifying
parent before
meeting with both of them together.
The
parenting coordinator can think up all kinds of activities to do and
with which to require the
parents to comply: pseudo-therapy (unregulated of course by the licensing boards because it's «not really» therapy, and it's «not really» law); «communications counseling»; «coaching»; reading of materials; various «educational» homework assignments;
meetings with one or the other of the parties,
meetings together,
meetings with various combinations of others; demands for disclosure, frequently in writing, of private thoughts, emotions, and information; consultations and strategy sessions
with the children's guardian ad litem and
parents» court - ordered or
parenting coordinator - ordered
therapists;
meetings with the children's physicians and teachers;
meetings with anyone at all; ordering of a
parent into supervised visitation or therapeutic visitation; recommending to the court therapies of all kinds
with yet more of the helping professionals — almost anything.
Often times,
therapists will
meet separately
with parents and caregivers to explore healthier and more effective ways of
parenting, co-
parenting, and discipline so that greater cohesiveness can exist between
parents and children.
When needed,
parent (s) will
meet with the
therapist to address barriers to
parenting in the ways you prefer, best practices for managing your child's behavior, and concerns and questions you may have about your child and their well - being.
Family
therapists most often work
with more than one family member in the room but individual sessions, or
meetings with parents separate from children for example, are also offered when appropriate.
For example,
parents may be attend the
Parenting Class, an adolescent receives individual therapy, and the entire family
meets with a family
therapist.