10 Signs Your Child May Need Some Intervention

Assessment for Child Therapy

Has your child:

  1. Experienced physical or sexual abuse.
  2. Witnessed domestic violence.
  3. Witnessed or is a victim of a traumatic experience.
    (ie: abuse, accident, animal attack, refugee experience, medical procedure, illness of a loved one)
  4. Experienced separation from a caregiver.
    (ie: divorce, foster care placement, death)
  5. Struggled with toileting issues.
    (involuntary or voluntary urination or excretion, bed wetting)
  6. Demonstrated concerns with eating.
    (refusal to eat, overeating or hoarding food)
  7. Exhibited sleep related concerns.
    (nightmares, night terrors, refusal or inability to sleep)
  8. Showed aggression toward others.
  9. Struggled with the inability to be soothed or tolerate frustration.
    (tantrums or emotional outbursts lasting longer than 20 minutes)
  10. Showed extreme defiance toward others.
    (inability or refusal to follow direction from authority or caregivers)

If you answered yes to any one of the 10 signs above your child would likely benefit from meeting with one of our play therapists. For additional information or concerns please contact our therapists.

Play Therapy Works!

Sandtray Play Therapy

This video from the Association for Play Therapy highlights the importance of Play Therapy for children and the many benefits that have been discovered by properly implementing it. Check out their website and give this video a watch. Our therapists can assess if Play Therapy could help your child and begin this highly beneficial means of communication.

Dare to Parent Beyond Consequences

Parenting

Heather T. Forbes, LCSW

Are you struggling with your children, not even enjoying being a parent some days? Heather T. Forbes, LCSW shares a new perspective of parenting that can literally change your family for life. Her information will empower you to bring back the peace and happiness into your home that has been overcome by arguments, control battles, and defiance. Just hit the play button for the answers you have been seeking.

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV