CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

 

If you are the parent of a child who appears to have problems, or work with children and want to increase your psychological IQ, we may be able to help. We can either work with you as the adult, giving you education and support as we attempt to tackle difficult issues or questions. Or, depending on various factors, it may be possible for us to work directly with your child too. 

 

Children are information processing machines just as we are. They are able to feel complex emotions, they are susceptible to automatic and conditioned behaviours, their minds are fast learning rules and associations. They absorb and remember more than you realize, it just does not manifest in the same way it does in adults. 

 

For example symptoms of depression differ in adults and children. 

 

Therefore it is important to educate yourself about what is normal and age appropriate for children and what is not. Education regarding developmental, child and adolescent pyschology, attachment, temperament and learning is important. It can even tell us something about how we work and think. So understanding what is going on in the mind of a child, why things are going the way they are or what to do if you know something has gone wrong....is all important.