Navigating the Rocky Road of Parenting
Parenting a Child Who Struggles can be Painful
Parent consultations provide guidance on effectively managing challenging situations, helping to reduce problematic behaviors in your child while enhancing your ability to respond calmly and appropriately. Our clinicians act as educational and supportive resources, teaching you communication strategies that foster positive family relationships.
We focus on addressing your own anxieties, frustrations, and coping mechanisms, allowing you to better understand your child and respond to their needs with greater skill. These sessions are tailored to provide parenting strategies that are customized for your child’s unique needs.
Consultations are available for parents of children and teens, whether or not they are currently in therapy with us. Research strongly supports that working with parents can significantly improve a child’s functioning.
Consultations can address a wide range of issues, including:
- Child development phases
- Communication strategies
- Family dynamics
- Relationships with siblings and peers
- Establishing routines
- Discipline and boundaries
- Increasing positive attention
- Setting expectations
- Behavioral Parent Training
- Strengthening the parent-child relationship
Parenting Support when Your Child is in Treatment
Parent coaching and support is a vital part of treatment for all children. When your child is seeing one of our therapists or child psychiatrists, we keep you informed of our treatment plans and involve you in decisions relating to medication. The younger a child is, the more likely it will be that effective therapy will include parental participation.
Parents are an Integral Part of Treatment at The Ross Center
We strongly value parental input, and collaborate with parents to ensure that your child is making progress toward their goals. Your child’s clinician will teach you tools and strategies that are consistent with the therapies we are using to help your child. In addition, you’ll be provided with recommendations on how best to respond to your child and methods to minimize your own stress.
Specialized Parent Training:
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE)
SPACE is a parent-based treatment that addresses child and adolescent anxiety by by guiding parents in their interactions with their anxious child. Parents learn to calmly acknowledge their child’s distress while avoiding responses that may intensify symptoms, ultimately helping the child develop stronger coping skills for managing anxious thoughts and emotions.
You can schedule an appointment with one of our SPACE-trained therapists or join one of our SPACE groups. Learn More about SPACE treatment here.
Behavioral Parent Training for Young Children:
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (or PCIT) is a short-term, evidence-based therapy for young children (ages 2-7) with disruptive behaviors. In PCIT, parents are taught skills to support their child during live coaching sessions with a Ross Center PCIT-trained child therapist. Good habits and positive behavioral patterns are developed that reduce the incidence of problem behaviors and leave parents with a playbook and a set of skills that they can rely on as their child gets older.
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