Services for Children and Families

The clinic is designed for families with a wide range of parenting concerns. Some parents come to our program with questions about how to handle the daily challenges of child-rearing; others are seeking treatment for a child with severe behavioral problems. Whether your child is displaying severe aggression and violent behaviors or is simply refusing to do chores when asked, the Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic can help.

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Our Program

The clinic is unique in that it offers only evidence-based treatment. All of our therapies are derived from decades of research and have been empirically proven to work across a wide variety of situations. We provide concrete parenting techniques that focus on:

• Improving cooperation at home
• Developing social and academic behaviors
• Teaching children to accept disappointments calmly
• Handling a child's resistance to performing everyday tasks (e.g., getting dressed, completing homework, and cleaning his or her room)
• Making family time more enjoyable

When a child exhibits more severe difficulties at home or at school, we teach parenting skills that help to:

• Improve parent discipline practices
• Reduce fighting, aggression, or severe/frequent tantrums
• Reduce defiant or disruptive behavior at school
• Develop adaptive behaviors

When parents learn to become more effective in disciplining and improving their child's behaviors, the child learns to deal with interpersonal situations in positive, more adaptive ways. He or she will become more responsible and confident, while learning to make positive choices and to improve his or her relationships at home and at school.