Parent Counseling - Parent Groups

What is Parent Counseling?

Parent counseling is a process of guidance and support aimed at empowering parents in their role and helping them respond in a supportive and effective way to their children’s needs.

Psychoeducation for parents aims to create a positive, stable, and emotionally available family environment in which children can develop safely, with trust and balance.

What are its Benefits?

Parent counseling contributes to strengthening parents’ self-confidence, thus enhancing the quality of their parental care.
It helps parents understand how their personal history affects the way they raise their child, with the aim of developing the ability to manage their own emotions and reactions more effectively.

It promotes empathy so that parents can better understand the needs, behavior, and psycho-emotional development of their children.
Parent counseling leads to the creation of a positive and supportive home environment through training in communication skills and techniques for managing daily challenges.

Additionally, parents are trained in understanding and managing disorders such as learning difficulties, ADHD, autism, anxiety disorders, depression, as well as the challenges of adolescence.

Through parent counseling, parents learn how to strengthen their emotional connection with their child, manage conflicts respectfully, and accept their mistakes as opportunities for personal growth and improvement of family dynamics.

Who is it for?

Parent counseling is addressed to all parents and guardians of children and adolescents, regardless of age or gender, who wish to enhance their parenting skills.

It offers guidance and support to parents experiencing a change (starting school and separation anxiety, moving, changing school setting, divorce, new family member, illness, loss) to positively support their children through these transitions.

Additionally, it can benefit parents of children with diagnosed disorders such as learning difficulties, ADHD, autism, anxiety disorders, depression, behavioral difficulties, delinquency, etc., helping them better understand their children’s needs and manage everyday challenges.

It provides guidance to foster parents, helping them create a stable and safe family environment.

Parent counseling is particularly useful for parents of teenagers, enhancing their ability to understand the needs and challenges of adolescence, improve communication, manage conflicts with patience and respect, and maintain an open and trusting relationship with their children.

What Methods and Tools Does it Use?

Parent counseling is based on scientifically proven methods that contribute to understanding and effectively managing behavior, as well as psychoeducation of parents in problem-solving skills, enhancing communication and cooperation within the family context with the aim of improving family dynamics.

Parent groups include experiential and interactive activities such as role-playing, drama games, discussions, creative expression exercises (drawing, writing, music) which facilitate free emotional expression, enhance reflection on parental roles, and promote learning through the exchange of experiences and understanding different perspectives within the group.

How are the Sessions Conducted?

Parent counseling sessions are conducted either individually or in groups.

Individual sessions last about 50 minutes and their frequency is determined
according to the needs and preferences of the parents. During the first meeting, an assessment of the family’s needs is made and the intervention goals are defined.

Parent groups are held weekly or twice a month and last 90 minutes. The group consists of a specific number of participants to maintain the quality of interaction and personal support. Through the exchange of experiences, parents can see that they are not alone in the challenges they face, view situations from different perspectives, learn from others’ experiences, and try new approaches in raising their children.