{"id":166,"date":"2012-11-27T21:53:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T21:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T14:43:23","slug":"166-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/?page_id=166","title":{"rendered":"Children\/Adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Psychotherapy with Children<br \/>\nand Adolescents<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>Understanding and treating the problems of children and adolescents has always been central to my professional life. My doctoral research was in the area of adolescent development and I headed up a child treatment team for many years. My work as a neuropsychologist principally involves evaluation of cognitive problems in childhood.\u00a0My specialty in child development has lead to my appointment as an expert witness in Family and Supreme Court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SA_076_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-403\" title=\"SA_076_2\" src=\"http:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SA_076_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Evaluation of problems of childhood and adolescence involves:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A careful diagnosis of a child\u2019s issues, coordinating information from parents, teachers, guidance counselors, and pediatricians.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Treatment plans often involve a combination of individual and family psychotherapy, as well as conjunctive services such as psychological testing, tutoring or social skills groups.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Psychotherapy with younger children generally utilizes play as a vehicle for the child to express themselves. My offices are equipped with a range of creative material that a child can use to communicate and resolve inner conflicts.\u00a0 Parent sessions are held regularly \u00a0to set up structured interventions at home and in school, such as \u00a0behavioral modification program.<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Adolescence can be a highly tumultuous life phase and teenagers often benefit from a safe relationship with an adult where they can explore the conflicts and decisions with which they are faced. Teenagers are often more willing to do this w<\/em><em>ith a therapist than with a parent because the relationship is less charged and without fear of punishment.\u00a0 A therapist can also help ease tensions which often arise\u00a0between parents and teenagers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents Understanding and treating the problems of children and adolescents has always been central to my professional life. My doctoral research was in the area of adolescent development and I headed up a child treatment team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/?page_id=166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-166","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenalterpsychology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}