Adolescents Need The Right Tools To Cope With Their Social & Behavioral Issues

How do young adults deal with difficult events that change their lives? Peer pressure, difficulties in school, the death of a loved one or friend, serious illness in the family, traumatic events and news of violence and terrorist attacks. All of these are challenging life experiences for a young adult. Often times, these events in a young adult’s life are overlooked by parents, guardians and teachers as just being a passing situation. However, studies have shown that these events may have long reaching effects in young adults and children depending on their temperament and coping skills.

Our Qualified Experienced Team Can Help

At Creative Human Performance (CHP), we specialize in assessing and treating children & adolescents of various ages with behavioral problems. We work with the child, and if needed, with the parents to understand the situations that lead to the child’s behavioral issues. We also train parents to cope with these challenges.

Some specific areas include:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Substance abuse
• ADD/ADHD
• School Adjustment issues
• Coping skills for adolescent & parents
• Self-harming behaviors
• Social skills issues
• Social anxiety
• Self confidence
• Conflict management

Creating Lasting Changes

CHP takes a holistic approach to working with the Adolescents and Children. By this we mean, we use solution focused therapy to help the adolescents to deal with various problems in their life. Family interactions, school environment, friends and peer groups and even diet can play an important role in shaping a young adult’s social behavior and development. Our highly trained therapist looks at all these factors and works out an action plan to deal with the child’s issues drawing from the following approaches

Individual Counseling

Family Counseling with Adolescent & their families

Group Counseling

Young-adult centered Sand Tray therapy; since play and modeling is a natural & effective way for children and young adults to express them selves