TIPs: Pregnancy and Parenting > Parenting Strategies for Infants, Toddlers, Children and Adolescents
Gender can be complicated in a society with strict rules about how people should feel, behave, and express themselves based on their assignment to one or the other of two genders. But many people, more than you realize, don’t find that their experience of gender fits well with either of these ideas of ‘male’ or ‘female.’
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A hair pulling self-help monitoring tool to help you build awareness of your hair pulling behaviors looking at the SCAMP domains: Sensory, Cognitive, Affective, Motor, and Place.
Whether it's your first child or your fifth, parenting can always be a wondetful and difficult experience. Below you'll find parenting strategies for infants, toddlers, children and adolescents developed by family therapists in Philadelphia.
Caring for the Caretaker: While On the Job: Nanny Edition
We all know caring for the caretaker, or self-care for those in caretaking positions, can feel daunting. For a nanny, the line continue reading
Blended Families With Teenage Children: Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Mechanicsville, Santa Fe
Over the course of history the concept of family has greatly reconfigured itself. A large percentage of people have children continue reading
Do you know what app that is? Do you remember when newspapers and magazines were delivered to your home, when analog phones were a fixture in your home, hearing boom boxes and listening to continue reading
Parenting can be one of the most difficult experiences for many families. However, parenting teenagers can sometimes make the most well-equipped parent want to hibernate until after their child reaches adulthood. Unfortunately, we can’t continue reading
Teens and COVID 19 Therapy in Philadelphia, Mechanicsville, Ocean City, and Santa Fe
Social Distancing, staying at home due to COVID-19 and being a teen is a major shift. Adapting to this new normal is continue reading
You come home to what seems to be another ordinary day. However, as you stop to say hello, you unexpectedly see your teen in the middle of looking at porn. You’re not sure on what continue reading
A significant adjustment period for many couples is when they begin having or adopting children, known as the transition-to-parenthood. Children can compromise the dyad relationship by putting more strain on the family system, diverting time continue reading
Smartphone Boundaries for Parenting
Are you practicing SMART smartphone parenting strategies? Try the exercises below to begin establishing healthy smartphone boundaries for your family. It is helpful to observe your current smartphone behaviors along with continue reading
Parenting for the long haul: When you think of your parenting role, what immediately comes to mind? More than likely, your thoughts turn to surviving the day (and/or getting the jelly bean out of continue reading
Corporal Punishment: Hot Topic in African American Families - Parenting Support Services
“Spare the rod, spoil the child”. If you are familiar with this saying, you are very familiar with the idea of corporal punishment continue reading
Play Therapy in Center City Philadelphia: There are many reasons for seeking play therapy for your child. Every parent has his or her own specific set of reasons. Regardless of how and why you made continue reading
In our opinion, all children ages 3-11 can benefit from play therapy. Play therapy is designed to be fun! From a child’s perspective, he or she gets to play with sand, a doll continue reading
Center for Growth / Self Esteem Therapy in Philadelphia, Providence, Ocean City, Mechanicsville, Santa Fe: Increasing confidence and self esteem.
Self esteem is a measure of how favorable you rate your abilities continue reading
Center for Growth / Play Therapy in Philadelphia for Autism
Autism is a Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). Pervasive Developmental Disorders are a range or “spectrum” of disorders that are characterized by severe continue reading
When your child receives a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or its quieter cousin, Attention Deficit Disorder continue reading
