In an ever-increasing digital world, counselors can help families develop healthy guidelines on internet use that consider each child’s developmental needs.
Tag: Children & Adolescents
Children & Adolescents
With childhood anxiety increasing at an alarming rate, early assessment and treatment can help children struggling with anxiety live a healthy life.
Counselors must strike a balance between maintaining young clients’ confidentiality and accommodating parents who want to be kept in the loop about their child’s progress in therapy.
A selfie can say a lot about a person, and when used clinically, it can prompt deeper discussions about self-image and foster the therapeutic alliance.
Caregivers can use these four simple steps to build a stronger connection with youth and help them learn skills to cope with the increased stress associated with COVID-19.
Counselors can use their position and power to better serve transgender and gender-expansive youth whose mental health and well-being are threatened by oppressive policies.
Integrating nature-informed practices and activities into clinical work can help children learn to reduce defensive states, increase homeostasis and activate their social engagement system.
Play is highly facilitative when included in a child’s counseling, but it is important to understand the difference between including play in sessions with young clients and true play therapy.
As a counselor, I must be able to identify sexual behaviors that are common — as well as those that may not be normal but aren’t unusual either — and put a parent’s mind at ease while also respecting their culture and belief systems.
The isolation and stress of COVID-19 have exacerbated a preexisting upward trend in serious mental health problems in those under 18.