{"id":18,"date":"2014-06-18T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2014-07-16T20:29:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T20:29:40","slug":"psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents, and Families<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raising a healthy child in today\u2019s complex and stressful world can be daunting.\u00a0 It is not uncommon for children to hit obstacles as they navigate their journey to adulthood.\u00a0\u00a0 Working effectively with children and adolescents requires an understanding of developmental stages, learning styles, psychobiology, and family systems.\u00a0 It requires an ability and willingness to enter into relationship with the child and to meet her where she is.\u00a0 This might mean playing games, throwing balls, playing with puppets, or playing with a doll house.\u00a0 Play is the medium that small children often use to express what is going on in their lives.\u00a0 Older children often need the safe distraction of a game or a ball in order to be able to approach the bigger issues in their lives.\u00a0 Adolescents are more capable of utilizing traditional talk therapy, but may still need the safety of a game of Nerf basketball.\u00a0 Effective therapists are cognizant of the bigger systems in their clients\u2019 lives.\u00a0 While each child\u2019s needs are different, frequent consultation with parents of young children is a vital part of any treatment plan.\u00a0 Adolescents sometimes require more privacy as they seek to individuate from their parents and consultation is made with the adolescent\u2019s permission and involvement.\u00a0 Family therapy is sometimes indicated as well and the whole family is included in the treatment approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents, and Families Raising a healthy child in today\u2019s complex and stressful world can be daunting.\u00a0 It is not uncommon for children to hit obstacles as they navigate their journey to adulthood.\u00a0\u00a0 Working effectively with children and adolescents requires an understanding of developmental stages, learning styles, psychobiology, and family systems.\u00a0 It requires … Continue reading Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/76"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drdavidtriemer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}