Groups and Classes

(Please call for group/class schedules)

Below is a partial list of some of the groups and classes our department offers.

Parent Orientation Meeting

This program allows parents to initiate services for their child by coming into the clinic to fill out paperwork, get oriented to the department's policies and services, and to meet privately with a clinician outside the presence of their child, in order to begin discussing their concerns.

Coping Skills Class for Teens and Families

This is a nine session class for teens who have difficulty problem-solving when with painful emotions and situations. Poor problem-solving can result in depression, anger, poor judgment, and self-destructive behavior.

UPLIFT

This is a twelve session skill-building and support group for teens coping with depression, mood swings, interpersonal conflicts, and self-harm.

Teen Group

This is a confidential process group for high school teens to share problems and solutions about relationships, stress, parents, school, friends, drugs/alcohol, depression, sex/sexuality, and violence.

Middle School Coping Skills Group

This is a six session group for children and teens in grades 6-8 who are having difficulty managing the transition from child to teen. This could be seen through rapidly changing moods, withdrawal, social conflict, and academic difficulties. The group will focus on learning coping skills through activities and positive peer interaction. Parents will meet at the same time focusing on parenting issues.

The Parent Project®

This is a ten session parenting class for parents of strong-willed, oppositional, or defiant teens that focuses on empowering parents to begin making significant changes at home designed to influence and motivate their teenagers to make better choices and improve their behavior and academic performance, as well as to decrease destructive behaviors.

Anxiety Program

This program is made up of three sections, one for children ages 6-12, one for teenagers, and one for parents of all the participants in the other two sections. It is a six session group focusing on worries and fears which are interfering with school, friends, and/or family activities. The goal is to help participants and their parents learn better ways to cope with fears and worries.

Exposure Group

This is a group for children and teens that have already completed the Anxiety Program described above. Its purpose is to provide a supportive place to practice confronting fears/obsessions and avoidance behavior. Participants will create a plan to gradually confront their fears and learn to tolerate their anxiety, while practicing exposure with the support of their peers.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Clinic

This specialty clinic run in conjunction with the Department of Pediatrics allows for the observation of children in the first through fifth grades by clinicians for the symptoms of ADHD in a classroom setting. While children participate in the observation group, parents are next door receiving an overview of the symptoms and causes of ADHD, as well as obtaining all of the necessary paperwork that needs to be filled out by parents and teachers as part of the assessment. Parents of teens and of children under age 6 are also invited to attend the parent portion.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Parents' Class

This is a four session class for parents of children who are being evaluated for or who have already been diagnosed with ADHD.

Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

This is a nine week program designed to provide treatment and support to teenagers 13-18 years old and their families, following a psychiatric crisis. A variety of services including a teen group, parent support group, multifamily group, and coping skills classes are offered depending upon need. Additionally, crisis services, individual and family therapy, medication evaluation and monitoring, and case management services are available if needed.

Social Skills Group

This is a six session class for children ages 7-12 who need help with establishing and maintaining healthy peer relationships, conflict resolution, anger management, and coping with bullies. Parents of participants attend the parent portion of the program while their children are in class.

Autism and Your Child

This is a four session class for parents designed to provide information and skills to empower families during their journey with Autism.

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