2024届高考英语一轮复习时文阅读10 Things Your Child's Therapist Hopes You Know 学案

10 Things Your Child's Therapist Hopes You Know KEY POINTS To help a child, a therapist needs the child (and parent) to trust them. There are times a therapist may ask parents to attend appointments with their child. This is normal. Therapists recognize that parents know their child infinitely better than the therapist ever well. I believe that parenting is the most intense, meaningful, and difficult task a person can take part in. When your child is having challenges that prompt you to reach out to a therapist, that initial call takes courage. You are enlisting someone who you likely do not know to help. As therapists who meet with children and adolescents, we will do our best to meet your family's needs. What follows are 10 things we hope you know. 1. Seeking Therapy is Wise. It is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of. In our times, the number of children and adolescents in therapy is higher than ever before. Some youth come to counseling to work on a particular goal while others are seeking to better themselves. There is no shame in either. Being in therapy does not mean that there is anything 'wrong' with your child, your parenting, or your family. Your reaching out for psychotherapy for your child is no different than seeking any other health service. It is an act of love and shows that you care about their wellbeing. 2. To Help Your Child We Need Them (and You) to Trust Us Confidentiality is a key piece of the therapeutic relationship. Most states have some confidentiality laws regarding children and adolescents that range from the youth having near absolute confidentiality to states where the parent has all permissions that the young client has. In all states, we will inform you when we perceive a serious risk to your child's safety, such as if your child is making plans for suicide. We can only help youth with those things we know about. Most youth will share very little without some promise of confidentiality. Your child will need some level of confidentiality