PARENTING SUPPORT
Connecting with children during emotional moments is one of the most rewarding parts of being a parent. But it can also be one of the most challenging!
It can be confusing to know how to respond to the full range of your children’s emotions and behaviours. Tantrums, uncooperativeness, meltdowns and all manner of volatile emotional outbursts from our kids can really push our buttons. And which parent has never had a tantrum?! And who hasn’t been embarrassed by a public meltdown? Just when you think you’ve worked out what makes your child tick they change.
Angelique can support you as you explore a range of strategies, creative ideas and different approaches to the challenges we all face as parents.
Filial Therapy / Parent -Child Relationship Therapy
This is an approach to help parents enhance the parent child relationship through the use of non-directive play.
Parents are supported to be the primary therapeutic agent of change in the lives of their children.
Filial Therapy creates a safe atmosphere where children can express themselves, try new things, learn about social rules and restrictions, develop family attachments, and develop effective social skills and bonds.
Over 40 years of research and clinical experience with Filial Therapy has shown that it consistently helps reduce children’s problem behaviours, helps parents feel less stressed and more confident, and improves the understanding parents have for their children.
Parent/Carer Consultations
Are you looking for a different way to engage with your children? Do you wonder why you and your children keep repeating the same behaviours that seem to result in frustration and disconnection?
Through the framework of interpersonal neurobiology, child development and attachment theory I can work with you to explore strategies that help you feel more confident as a parent, to develop a greater understanding of your children's behaviours and enhance your relationship with your children.
Group Programs
You can book me in to facilitate Tuning In To Kids - Emotionally Intelligent Parenting, Circle of Security, and Child Parent Relationship Therapy programs at your own home or venue.
Tuning In To Kids
You can book me to facilitate a Tuning In to Kids - Emotionally Intelligent Parenting group program at your own venue or home.
I work with groups of 4 to 10 participants.
Tuning In to Kids (TIK) is a 6-week evidence-based group program that helps parents understand and respond to their child's emotions and foster their child's needs. It was developed by Dr Sophie Havighurst and Anne Harley at the University of Melbourne.
When parents focus on helping their child learn about emotions, the child is more likely to have higher emotional intelligence. This is important because children with greater emotional intelligence:
have more successful friendships and are more able to manage conflict with peers,
have better concentration, which means they are more likely to be successful academically,
are more able to self soothe when upset or angry,
tend to have fewer childhood illnesses,
have more stable and satisfying relationships as adults; and
have greater career success. Studies show emotional intelligence may be a better predictor of academic and career success than IQ!
(Source: Tuning in to Kids manual.)
Circle of Security
Circle of Security is a 6-week program based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened. Learning Objectives of the Program:
Understand your child’s emotional world by learning to read the emotional needs
Support your child’s ability to successfully manage emotions
Enhance the development of your child’s self-esteem
Honor your innate wisdom and desire for your child to be secure
Filial Therapy / Parent-Child Relationship Therapy
C-P-R Training is a 10-session Therapeutic Parenting Skills Group For parents of children under 10 years of age. Parents learn skills and techniques proven highly effective for improving communication with their children and provide more effective discipline. This play-based approach not only helps parents learn to manage their children’s behavior successfully, it also provides parents with the keys to enhancing and strengthening the parent-child bond and having more fun with their children.
Aims of the program:
Regain self-control as a parent to be able to take charge when necessary
Help your child develop self-control
Effectively discipline and limit inappropriate behavior
Understand your child’s emotional needs
Communicate more effectively with your child
Connect with your child through play