Our Educational/Clinical Psychologists provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions for a range of social/emotional and behavioural problems faced by the children and adolescents of today.
The goal of the therapy is to increase self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management and responsible decision-making to increase resilience, develop strengths and resources, build healthy relationships and achieve a positive self-concept to develop into well-adjusted individuals who can achieve their potential.
These therapies are carried out in individual or small group sessions that are specifically tailored to the students’ specific needs. Students in the small group sessions are carefully matched in terms of age and area of development.
The various conditions that they work with include:
ADHD Adjustment Anger and impulse control issues Autism spectrum disorders Depression Eating disorders Loss Obsessive-compulsive disorders Self esteem problems Stress and anxiety Trauma
Programmes that we carry out include:
The SOCIAL THINKING programme is based on Michelle Garcia’s Social Thinking curriculum. It helps students think about others and understand how their behaviors affect other people’s reactions, which in turn affects how they feel about themselves. The children are taught strategies to process social information and learning is enhanced through experiential exercises in a small group setting. Individual strengths and weaknesses are considered at the same time in the selection of strategies so as to best facilitate the child's ability to interact successfully with others.
STOP-THINK-DO is a social problem solving strategy to help students learn to control their emotional reactions, organize cognitions and produce behaviours to achieve socially acceptable outcomes. It teaches them to look and listen instead of reacting immediately to problems and conflicts and encourages them to consider solutions and evaluate consequences so as to choose the best action to take.
SUPERFLEX is another social thinking curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner's Center for Social Thinking Inc. It offers a fun forum for students to explore social thinking by using cartoon characters to depict socially appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. Children with social cognitive deficits learn about their social environment through the use of explicit and concrete language that can be easily understood by children of all ages. It is suitable for students from grade K to 5.
Therapeutic approaches include:
Involves the identification of the purpose or function of challenging behaviours. Through training, the students learn to replace challenging behaviours with socially appropriate behaviours.
Helps students to learn to take control of how they interpret and deal with factors in the environment that reinforces their beliefs and causes negative thoughts. It involves the identification of problematic beliefs before learning and practicing new skills in real world situations.
This was founded on the work of Dr William Glasser and Choice Theory. Choice theory explains how and why we behave in a certain way and is taught as part of the therapeutic process. Students discover what they want and how they can get it, learn to make better choices, take responsibility for their own behaviour and develop satisfying relationships.
Helps students to discover their own strengths and resources so that they can identify solutions to overcome difficulties. It focuses on each student’s competencies and abilities to empower them and build up the steps to successful behavioral change.