Parenting Adolescents
We are excited to be offering ‘Parenting Adolescents’, a FREE 5-week course focused on providing parents with tools and strategies to improve their relationship with their teenager.
The group has a strong focus on understanding teenage development, communication strategies to apply and ones to avoid, listening and validation skills, how to set boundaries, and navigating conflict.
Learning includes information, group discussion and activities, videos, practice opportunities, and sharing and exchanging ideas. The foundations of this group come from the worldwide and heavily research-based Incredible Years Parenting Programme.
Parenting Adolescents will also canvas specific topics such as pornography, social media, sex, risky behaviour, self-harm, suicidality, anxiety, depression, and general mental health and wellbeing. These topics are given an introduction including statistics, information for parents to be aware of, how to have conversations about these topics with your teenager, and further resources and supports.
In this group you will explore and discuss in depth:
- Teenage brain development
- Parent/teen relationship
- Boundaries & consequences
- Commuinication & problem solving
- Mental health & risky behavior
- Parent self-care
When: Monday’s 7pm - 9pm
Where: Kindred Family Services, 104 Commercial Rd, Helensville
Starts: Mon 31 July
To register, contact Kindred Family Services
p. 09 420 7992
e. info@kindredservices.org.nz
About the facilitator
Dacia Davison MOT, NZROT, is originally from the United States but has recently become a NZ citizen. She lives in Helensville with her husband and 3 children. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Child and Family Psychology and a Masters degree in Occupational Therapy. For the last 12+ years, Dacia has worked with children/youth and their parents in a variety of sectors including mainstream schools, special schools, community mental health, specialized mental health teams, peer and parenting groups, and intensive wrap-around for high and complex needs youth under mental health services. Dacia has co-developed and facilitated many different groups for children, youth, parents, and agencies including psychoeducational groups, parenting groups, collaborative problem-solving groups, and groups based in specific therapy modalities such as DBT and CBT. She is also trained as a facilitator of the Incredible Years programme, Multi-Family Therapy Groups, and as a Wrap-Around Support case coordinator.
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