Treatment plans are tailored to the unique needs of each child.  We firmly believe that parents are the expert on their child and therefore parents and/or other adults in the child’s life will work with their child’s psychologist to form a consistent game plan for behavior change at home and school. Parent and family involvement in the treatment process can greatly increase the success of therapy.

Adolescents

Teens are growing physically, mentally and emotionally at a phenomenal rate. Many parents say their child went from a little kid to a more challenging teenage version of themselves almost overnight. The brain’s frontal lobe–which is tasked with future planning, decision making and personality expression –is not completely developed until a person’s early 20’s. Thus, an adolescent may look physically more like an adult, but developmentally the teenage brain is immature.

While some teens would outwardly disagree, they don’t know everything. Sometimes they will ask questions and discuss situations and feelings with a psychologist that they don’t feel comfortable bringing up with their parent–even if the relationship with the parent is good. The psychologist is a “neutral party” whose only interest is helping them grow and mature.