Working With Parents
Being a parent is challenging. Your children are constantly growing and changing. Likewise, what is required of you as a parent has to change too. If your child is experiencing emotional or behavioural difficulties and is feeling overwhelmed it is likely to affect the way you feel about your ability to parent.
Sometimes as a parent, just like your child, you may feel unsupported helpless and overwhelmed.
Sometimes our children cause us anxiety and we may find that memories from our own childhood pull us to respond to our own children in a particular way.
There are several ways in which parent work can be helpful.
To provide a supportive space in which to reflect on your own experience of parenting, including patterns of behaviour and feelings that derive from your own childhood and to take into account if this influences the way you react to your child.
To better understand your child’s emotional needs and how your child’s behaviour may be an expression of emotions and feelings that he or she is unable to express in another way.
To think about the developmental phase of your child and their present and future needs.