For Children 0-5 Years Old
Bright Beginnings & Personal Best Groups
Bright Beginnings and Personal Best Groups are designed for multiple children 2 months to 3 years of age and their parents. These groups are year-round.
The Parent-Child Group Component
The parent-child group component consists of five six-session cycles of groups that parents attend with their child from two months to 30 months. The sessions are carefully structured around a theme (e.g., Learning about the world; Learning to communicate; Playing is learning; Guiding children’s behavior). The sessions include in-depth discussion about the theme and application of these ideas to parent-child interactive activities.
Developed by Dr. Grossman, the standard Personal Best curriculum is a 16-session group experience that promotes parent mental health, social support and sense of self-efficacy in multiple roles including parent, partner, student/worker, family member and friend. A core feature is the process of building resilience through graded mastery experiences and mutual support. The four modules focus on managing stress, parenting beliefs, communication and problems solving skills and family self-sufficiency. The curriculum supports a two generation approach to service delivery that focuses on adult development in addition to child development and the parent-child relationship.
Timeline: HOW TO JOIN - ADD HERE - evaluation for all programs same process, walkin and provider
Child Parent Psychotheraphy (CPP)
Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is an intervention model for children aged 0-5 who have experience at least one traumatic event and/or are experiencing mental health, attachment, and/or behavioral problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder. The treatment is based in attachment theory but also integrates psychodynamic, developmental, trauma, social learning, and cognitive behavioral theories. Therapeutic sessions include the child and parent or primary caregiver. The primary goal of CPP is to support and strengthen the relationship between a child and his or her caregiver as a vehicle for restoring the child's cognitive, behavioral, and social functioning. Treatment also focuses on contextual factors that may affect the caregiver-child relationship.
Timeline/How to Join - ADD HERE
ParentinG Journey
Parenting Journey is a unique evidence-informed curriculum that is a strength-based approach. Although parents might not yet have the relationship with their children that they would like, together we identify and build on their strengths to develop a loving yet firm style of parenting based on mutual respect and love. Self-reflection – Parenting is an art to be learned, yet many parents aspire to raise their children in a different manner from how they themselves were raised. Our programs invite participants to reflect on their own family history, to identify unhealthy practices they may have learned growing up or experienced as children, and then to break those habits, providing an opportunity to start fresh and create a new, strong family foundation on which to build.
Only for children in the clinic's parents
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