Parenting Counseling

Please refer to “Psychological Counseling” for a description of general operation and arrangements.

Goals of Parenting Counseling …are to help parents…

• Understand their child’s needs, and help him handle his problems
• Develop empathy and the ability to feel what his/her child feels
• Find appropriate ways to handle their children’s emotional & behavioral problems
• Improve parent-child communication and handle conflicts
• Understand parents’ own feelings, sort out inner conflicts and overcome psychological hurdles in relation to parenting
• If necessary, understand parents’ own growing-up experience and their own experience of being parented
• Help parents cooperate as a parent-team, and contribute each other’s strengths and resources
• Explore parenting roles and responsibilities, and related challenges
• Examine together how to meet the challenges of being 21st century parents
• Provide tailor-made parent-education, enhance parent effectiveness and teach parenting skills
• Others, as appropriate to the needs of your conditions

When Will I need Parent-Counseling?

When your child has the following problems:

• Emotional and behavioral problems
• Your child is very sensitive, cries easily, and shows emotional fluctuations
• Fears, nervousness, and anxiety
• Irritability, gets angry easily, frequent temper tantrums
• Unwilling to cooperate, impoliteness, rebelliousness, non-compliance
• Peer relationship difficulties, e.g. too shy, non-assertiveness, anti-social behaviors
• Study and school difficulties
• Child having problem adjusting to developmental or circumstantial changes
• Has been dealing with grief and could not recover even after a long time
• Has had a traumatic experience and needs help overcoming its effects

When you as a parent have the following difficulties:

• You are a new parent and you feel you have difficulty adjusting to the change
• You find parenting really stressful
• You feel you lack confidence in parenting, and you often don’t know what to do
• You have communication difficulties with your child or your find yourself in frequent conflicts with him
• You are always anxious and worried about your child
• Your child’s behaviors often upset or disturb you
• You feel you have difficulty exercising parental authority and your child does not respect you
• You feel afraid to handle your child’s emotions or his refusal to cooperate
• You don’t feel you enjoy or look forward to being with your child, or you feel emotionally distant with your child
• You have difficulty adjusting to your child’s growing up and behaving differently
• You hope to become a more effective parent

You are welcome to make an enquiry call to Mrs. Man at 2868 3066 and briefly discuss about your situation, and work out a counseling plan that will suit your needs.