What is Autonomy-Supportive Parenting Autonomy-supportive parenting is a style of caregiving that emphasizes the nurturing of a child’s ability to make their own choices, be self-reliant, and develop their own values and interests which guide their behaviours. What...
Emotion recognition can be thought of as the ability to identify and understand emotions in other people. The concept of ‘emotional awareness’ can be thought of a person’s ability to notice and understand their own emotions. Both emotion recognition and emotional...
I’ve worked as a psychologist with our team to support children and young people for over 25 years and over the last decade I’ve seen a significant increase in the number of parents who seek mental health treatment for their children and young people. While therapy...
As a psychologist working with children and young people, I meet *parents* (for brevity I’ll use ‘parents’ throughout this article, but I’m referring of course to all primary caregivers, biological parents or not) every week who are struggling with parenting related...
Around 10% to 15% of children experience difficulties with aggression, impulsivity, following instructions and other challenging or disruptive behaviours – well beyond what the average child of their same age experiences. What this looks like in their daily life...
Many children with mental, emotional, or social health challenges are engaged in some kind of therapeutic program – this might be a course of one-to-one therapy, a group program, online learning programs, or even self-help books or workbooks. There are thousands of...
