Parenting Strategies for Behavioral Problems
All too often, kids (5-15 yo) with behavioral issues at home or school (impulsivity, inattention, rule breaking, homework difficulties, aggression) are simply diagnosed with ADHD and medicated into submission - with poor outcomes or troublesome side-effects. Alternatively, kids demand constant monitoring or discipline enforcement, leaving parents and families disrupted, angry and stressed. Prognostically, kids can grow up to have conduct disorders, personality malformations, substance abuse problems, mood disorders and adult ADHD. Not good. This weekly, 10-session program is an alternative approach: directed at empowering parents with positive incentive and reinforcement strategies, smart and effective discipline and punishment techniques.
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Edgewater Psychotherapy
Shore Drive
Edgewater, MD 21037
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Edgewater Psychotherapy
Shore Drive
Edgewater, MD 21037
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Substance Recovery (Adult and Adolescent Groups)
Frequently, people use drugs and alcohol to address the effects of traumatic experiences, stress, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, peer relationship issues - or to simply just feel good. While substance abuse treatment often primarily focuses on trigger identification and refusal skills, the underlying emotional and social drives to use are minimally addressed and so remain. Consequently, relapse rates remain notoriously high. I have run substance abuse groups at Second Genesis and understand the critical need to develop emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These two separate peer groups address the underlying drives that create continued dangers for relapse.
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Adult Process Groups
The power of group: 'Through Connection With Others - Validation, Change and Empowerment'. I run several adult groups. Two are men only or women only with open-ended formats focused on whatever and wherever the group dynamic takes us. Another mixed gender solution-focused group is based on skill acquisition with a DBT-mindfulness oriented approach (emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal relationships) to address depression, anxiety, trauma and self-harm. I also run support groups for divorce/separation, adults with 'difficult' parents, skills balancing career, self and family, adolescent personality development and a group focused on the emotion of film.