ADD Health & Wellness Centers offers Unique Group Therapy
If your child or someone you love suffers from ADHD, learning disabilities, or simply struggles with time management, organization, or memory, ADD Health & Wellness Centers can help. With groups meeting weekly for one-hour ADD Health & Wellness professionals will provide you with the latest information, tools, and strategies to better manage symptoms, executive functioning issues, and behaviors associated with these conditions. Our groups can help by offering the following:
Parenting Groups:
If you are a parent of a child with ADHD, this small six-week Parenting Group is designed to assist you through a combination of education, skills training, group discussion and support.
This unique program stresses consistency and cooperation while promoting change through a system of praise, rewards, and mild punishment. Parents will learn tools and strategies for establishing clear patterns of discipline, communicating with children on a level they can understand, and reducing family stress overall. These tools and strategies will help parents get their child's behavior back on track and restore harmony in the home.
Benefits to the parenting group include the following:
- How to educate the whole family about ADHD
- Changing the paradigm
- Parenting together
- Modifying behaviors
- Helping others know what to do
- Helping the family learn to appropriately express feelings
Social Skills Group for Children and Adolescents:
If your child or adolescent is struggling with ADHD, our Social Skills Group, helps boys and girls who are interested in connecting with others and learning specific strategies for living successfully. During this eight-week program your child or adolescent learns to communicate more effectively, initiate social interactions, resolve conflict, accept responsibility, notice and manage feelings, deal with low self-esteem issues, problem solve, and recognize social cues.
Benefits to the social skills training group include:
- Children will learn strategies for interacting with classmates, family, friends, as well as bullies.
- Weekly sessions will incorporate the basic skills of making eye contact, why it is so important, why we want to say hello and goodbye, how to be patient, and wait ones turn.
Emphasis in the group will be on learning appropriate communications skills to facilitate positive relationships. Children will learn how to read and interpret nonverbal cues and respond appropriately to social cues. - They will learn how to initiate and maintain positive social interactions.
- The group will focus on recognizing and interpreting emotions including how to identify and manage their strong emotions such as anger, frustration, or low self-esteem.
- Group participants will learn how to take and accept responsibility for their actions and learn how to develop and strengthen their self control skills.
Self expression, individual and group problem solving, imagination, and self confidence will be encouraged and developed through the use of improvisational role-play of the weekly topics. - Participates will learn the process of decision making.
If you’re a parent of a child or adolescent who struggles with ADD/ADHD or learning disabilities ADD Health & Wellness Centers offer a tremendous amount of skills training, knowledge, and support to parents, children, and adolescents struggling with ADHD. If you are interested in learning more about these new groups, please contact a Center near you for more details.