|
|
|
Childhood Assessment & Therapy
I know every child is different, but I'm still worried...
Parents or professionals (e.g., GPs, Paediatric Specialists or Child Care
Centre staff) may refer a child to an Educational and Developmental Psychologist or Clinical Psychologist at
Embracing The Other Half for assessment, treatment and counselling for the following concerns:
Early Childhood (0 - 5 years)
• |
Parental support, psycho-education and skill acquisition.
|
• |
Assistance in developing parenting strategies and styles that are
flexible and developmentally sensitive.
|
• |
Supporting parents when there is a poor Goodness of Fit between the
child's temperamental style and the
demands the environment places on the child. (For example, do the parents have a different temperamental type than
the child?) A poor Goodness of Fit can lead to excessive stress.
|
• |
Assisting young children to adapt to a changing environment.
|
• |
Assisting young children who have been through traumatic
stress (e.g. Trauma, Abuse, Neglect, Parental Divorce, etc) to understand that they are not to blame.
|
• |
Assessment of a developmental delay (Motor, Language, Social, Emotional, Cognitive, etc.)
|
• |
Assisting young children to express their emotions appropriately
and read and understand the emotions of others.
|
• |
Assisting young children to self-sooth and to regulate their emotions when they
are having difficulty with emotion dysregulation.
|
• |
Dealing with Sensory Sensitivities
|
• |
Assist with Social Perspective taking. Preschoolers (age 3-6) are
often egocentric and have difficulty in acknowledging that a different person can attribute the same
situation differently.
|
• |
Improving self-regulation and frustration tolerance in young children.
|
• |
Understanding and working with aggression in young children.
|
|
• |
Anxiety: worry, separation anxiety, phobias, panic, Social Anxiety (Phobia),
obsessions, trauma
|
|
• |
Attachment related trauma and Disordered Attachment
|
• |
Assistance with feeding, sleeping or behavioural problems
|
• |
Supporting families through a "Crisis of Diagnosis" and the inevitable associated grief and loss.
|
• |
Helping parents/individuals work through potential feelings such as blame, shame and guilt.
|
• |
Supporting individual family members through grief and loss.
|
• |
Assessment of school readiness.
|
|
School Age Children (5 - 12 years)
|
|
• |
Anxiety: Generalised Anxiety & Worry, Separation Anxiety, Phobias, Panic,
Social Anxiety (Phobia), Obsessions & Compulsions, Trauma, Perfectionism
|
• |
Depression
|
• |
Teasing & bullying
|
• |
School adjustment difficulties
|
• |
Acquisition of social thinking and social skills
|
• |
Dealing with family separation and divorce
|
• |
Life stressors
|
• |
Eating Disorders
|
• |
ADHD
|
• |
Autism Spectrum Disorders
|
• |
Handling the inevitable stress and conflict that occurs during development
|
• |
Concerns about a child's cognitive, behavioural, or emotional development
|
• |
Assessment of a developmental delay (Motor, Language, Social, Emotional, Cognitive, etc.)
|
• |
Assessment of specific disabilities (e.g., Intellectual Disability, Learning Difficulties, Dyspraxia, Sensory Sensitivities)
|
• |
Assistance with feeding, sleeping or behavioural problems
|
• |
Infant mental health problems (e.g., anxiety and disordered attachment)
|
• |
Parenting issues
|
• |
Assistance with treatment planning and early-intervention programs
|
|
|
|
|
