Parenting Assistance
Working with parents is an essential part of the overall treatment program for your child.
Examples of therapy goals for helping you with your anxious child include:
- Understand your child’s anxiety and learn strategies to help them cope better.
- Help your child deal with their feelings.
- Discover strategic parenting skills and help your child manage the anxiety more effectively.
- Decrease frustration and conflict in the family.
- Learn to become more confident, knowledgeable, and successful in your parenting.
- Develop positive parenting practices in a step-by–step manner that is individually tailored to your child’s needs.
- Help your child to feel encouraged rather than discouraged.
- Learn how to decrease child’s avoidance of people, places, or things and encourage your child to approach situations.