Psychoeducational Assessment
With psychological testing and evaluation, your child's strengths as well as possible areas for improvement can be determined. Sound recommendations will be provided that will harness your child's strengths and address weaknesses.
The following tests are available, and are administered depending on the needs of your child:
This service is for children and adolescents with a wide variety of needs, including individuals with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, Learning Disorders (such as dyslexia), and Intellectual Disability.
The following tests are available, and are administered depending on the needs of your child:
- Intelligence Testing
- Academic Achievement Testing
- Behavior Assessment
This service is for children and adolescents with a wide variety of needs, including individuals with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, Learning Disorders (such as dyslexia), and Intellectual Disability.
Play Therapy
Play therapy is offered to children to help them resolve issues that may greatly affect them. Research supports the effectiveness of play therapy for children who experience a wide variety of social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties.
Play therapy helps children cope with and handle 'life stressors' such as:
Play therapy also helps children assimilate stressful experiences like natural disasters, abuse and domestic violence.
By confronting problems in the clinical play therapy setting, children find healthier solutions. Play therapy allows children to change the way they think about, feel toward, and resolve their concerns.
Even the most troubling problems can be confronted in play therapy and lasting resolutions can be discovered, rehearsed, mastered and adapted into lifelong strategies.
To learn more about play therapy, watch the Play Therapy Works! video of the Association for Play Therapy
USA. The information provided above on play therapy may also be found on the association's website.
"You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a lifetime of conversation" - Plato
Play therapy helps children cope with and handle 'life stressors' such as:
- school-related stress
- separation/divorce
- death
- relocation
- hospitalization
- chronic illness
Play therapy also helps children assimilate stressful experiences like natural disasters, abuse and domestic violence.
By confronting problems in the clinical play therapy setting, children find healthier solutions. Play therapy allows children to change the way they think about, feel toward, and resolve their concerns.
Even the most troubling problems can be confronted in play therapy and lasting resolutions can be discovered, rehearsed, mastered and adapted into lifelong strategies.
To learn more about play therapy, watch the Play Therapy Works! video of the Association for Play Therapy
USA. The information provided above on play therapy may also be found on the association's website.
"You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a lifetime of conversation" - Plato
Counselling for Teens and Young Adults
Counselling sessions are offered for teens and young adults who have special concerns. Sessions are conducted in a confidential and accepting manner, and are tailored to the client's needs.
Counselling benefits teens and young adults in a number of ways. They receive emotional support, resolve conflicts with people, understand feelings and problems, and try out new solutions to old problems (Family Institute PC, 2014).
Goals for counselling may be specific (change in behaviour, improved relations with friends and family), or more general (less anxiety, better self-esteem) (Family Institute PC, 2014). The length of counselling depends on the teen's or young adult's particular needs.
Counselling benefits teens and young adults in a number of ways. They receive emotional support, resolve conflicts with people, understand feelings and problems, and try out new solutions to old problems (Family Institute PC, 2014).
Goals for counselling may be specific (change in behaviour, improved relations with friends and family), or more general (less anxiety, better self-esteem) (Family Institute PC, 2014). The length of counselling depends on the teen's or young adult's particular needs.
