Parental Coaching Method
Joan Erskine, L.C.S.W
45 Plaza Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 718.398.6132
The Parental Coaching Method helps you:
- Learn more about child development and child psychology
- Meet your child’s emotional needs directly.
- Engage your child’s natural desire for mastery over tasks (i.e. their natural desire to learn)
- Increase your child’s self esteem.
- Help your child develop better social skills
- Help your child cope with a family crisis, such as divorce or other loss.
- Resolve sibling rivalry
- Help improve your child’s scholastic abilities.
- Resolve behavior problems such as lying, constant opposition or arguing, etc.
- Compassionately and effectively discipline your child.
Parenting at it’s Best
Every loving parent strives to be the best parent possible and wants their child to feel happy, strong and successful. To accomplish this goal, you must accept and understand your child as they are. This is not a simple goal since your vision of how your child “should” be, can cloud the reality of who your child is. Seeing your child as they are is not meant to be a negative experience.
Parenting – Helping your child achieve their true potential
Once as a parent you learn to understand your child as they are, the surprising results will be that your child will change and grow in the positive ways you desire for them. This will also create a significantly stronger and more loving bond between you and your child. Your child’s desire to achieve self-mastery in tasks and growing up will delight you.
Parenting – Seeing the Positive Intent behind your child’s actions.
Every child needs to feel safe by connecting with you! Using the process of Positive Intent, you will find the original intent behind your child’s behavior. Sometime this original intent is camouflaged behind misbehavior, failing grades, sibling conflict, fighting, lying, secrecy, and even hostility towards you. Understanding the Positive Intent beneath, combined with the powerful tools and information provided, produces a positive and more loving dynamic between you and your child. Your child’s natural desire to feel safe and loved will transform into positive and effective behavior. The concept of Positive Intent is powerful and produces incredible results.
Joan Erskine, L.C.S.W. Psychotherapist, Coach.
Bachelors of Fine Art, School of Visual Art; Masters in Social Work, Yeshiva University.
Parental Coaching Method has evolved from my twenty-five years in private practice in Park Slope, Brooklyn, successfully working with hundreds of families and children. If as a parent, you are considering psychotherapy for your child, the Parental Coaching Method is frequently enough to resolve any difficulties your child is experiencing. |
