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Behavioural Parent Training |
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Parent training and education is an empirically-supported therapeutic approach using principles and techniques derived from behaviour therapy, attachment theory and neuroscience. She weaves this knowledge into the fabric of each family's culture, immigration experiences, personal values, and other relevant aspects of identity. Parent training invites parents and caregivers to identify and examine the impact of such influences that can strengthen or strain the parent-child relationship, including personal history, cultural or ethnic values, religion or spirituality, lifestyle choices, the home environment, community, a child’s developmental level, personality, and more. As these influences are identified and the impact better understood, parents can begin to assess how these interact with their own behaviours and expectations as well as those of their children, and begin to modify these where needed to accomplish personal goals. Goals can focus on improving family closeness, reduced arguing and fighting between parents and siblings, and increased family quality time. In individual sessions, on a weekly to biweekly schedule, parents will learn a range of behavioural, developmental, and anxiety and mood management skills. They then work with the clinician to customize a family plan utilizing those strategies that are best matched with their unique and diverse family needs. Families that might benefit from parent training and education may be seeking guidance with the following: |
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