Children with ADHD or ADD often experience challenges in attention, impulse control, and hyperactivity. They may require a unique treatment approach that can include behavioral strategies, psychoeducation, and – sometimes – medication to support their cognitive and emotional well-being. Recognizing and accommodating their neurodivergent traits will foster a positive and supportive environment conducive to their development.
Often children, like adults, can benefit from therapy as children can also be experiencing emotional and behavioral problems. Child therapy focuses on helping children achieve social and emotional wellbeing. As individual therapy, it is also time-limited and it focuses on specific goals such as changes in behavior or in more general goals like increasing self-esteem. […]
Play therapy is a technique that uses a wide variety of treatment methods, all of which include the use of play. Play can indicate how children are coping with their problems or concerns and it can show how much children understand about what is happening around them or within themselves. The natural play of children
Adolescence is a time of change where children learn on how to make decisions and learn on how to embrace independence. Sometimes these changes of development can cause emotional, social and behavioral problems such as eating disorders and drugs and alcohol abuse. Adolescent therapy can be very useful in helping to understand and support the
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A Social Skills Group is designed to offer help to children and adolescents who are having difficulty with peer relationships, anxiety, depression and ADHD. The goal is to assist them in developing social skills by teaching different strategies such as active listening, conversation skills, social competence, self-esteem, understanding emotions and problem solving. Children and adolescents
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Every parent wants their children to do well in school, but sometimes a child has a specific academic weakness that does not let them develop their potential to their maximum. With educational tutoring, your children can improve their results and increase their confidence and motivation. Educational Tutoring aims to provide encouragement and motivation to tutees
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School accommodations are changes to materials or procedures that enable students with disabilities to access grade-level learning and testing. If your child has a documented disability, you may be eligible for accommodations. Accommodations are not intended to change or lower the standards of the content being assessed. They are used to reduce or eliminate the
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A recent New York Times article lifts the veil on what has become an open secret in many top performing high schools in the nation: Prescription stimulants used to help children with ADHD are being sold on the black market to healthy students seeking a quick fix to increase focus, concentration and test performance. The
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ADHD tips: Teaching CBT self-calming techniques which children can practice to put “Mood Monsters” in their place. Alex’s mother arrived to his weekly session teary-eyed. “Every day after school, Alex has horrible tantrums and in a bad mood, what can I do?” Children with attention deficit disorder (ADD, ADHD) experience more intense emotions and moods
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