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Parenting Teens
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Self-harm
BETWEEN TEENS: RELATIONSHIP CENTERED
TEEN SUPPORT GROUP
DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE A PRISONER IN YOUR
OWN HOME? WISH MOM, DAD, AND OTHER ADULTS WOULD LIGHTEN UP, GET OFF YOUR
CASE, AND HAVE MORE FAITH IN YOU? THIS IS A GROUP FOR YOU!
Group will focus on understanding,
negotiating, and altering key relationships. Everyone has struggles
relating with parents, family, friends, and boyfriends/girlfriends. This
group will provide a supportive environment in which to explore current
concerns, ways you are presently dealing with these, and options for
resolving distressing conflicts within your relationships. Group will
consist of 10 students and will meet for 10 weeks.
For more information or to sign up, call Dawn Foster
at 562-843-7056.
WORKING TOGETHER: FACING CHALLENGES OF TEEN
PARENTING
PARENTS, DO YOU WONDER WHY YOUR TEENS DO
SOME OF THE THINGS THEY DO, WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM, OR WHY THEY SEEM
TO ACT SO MOODY AND REBELLIOUS? DO YOU FIND SOME OF THEIR BEHAVIOR
BAFFLING AND SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE YOU'LL LOSE YOUR SANITY? IF SO, THIS
GROUP CAN HELP!
Group will provide a supportive and
confidential environment in which the joys, pains, and frustrations of
teen parenting can be explored. Group will focus on exploring the
beliefs behind teen behaviors; methods of increasing your teen's
self-esteem; helping your teen move toward responsible independence;
practicing discipline techniques that work; implementing natural and
logical consequences; and keeping your own sanity and a life of your own
throughout these trying years. Group is open to all parents (men/women,
couples/singles, grandparents, foster parents, guardians) involved in
raising teens. We will meet for 10 weeks.
For more information or to sign up, call Dawn Foster
at 562-843-7056.
SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE:
A TEEN/PARENT COMMUNICATION
GROUP
PARENTS: Are you frustrated with and tired of the power struggles
and
conflict between you and your teen? Would
you like to create a more
harmonious and understanding relationship
with your teen?
TEENS: Do you feel like your parents are always getting on your
case,
wish they would lighten up and have more
trust in you? Would you like to
have a relationship with your parents
that's based on mutual trust and
respect?
If you both answered yes to these
questions, this group is for you!
Group will focus on communication style
and content between parent and teen. Conflict and power struggles are
common between parents and teens. Teens are working toward defining
themselves and achieving independence while parents are faced with
uncertainties and fears in setting appropriate and safe limits. This
group will provide a supportive environment in which to explore the role
of what each of you say and how you say it contributes to power
struggles and conflicts. Experimentation with alternative communication
styles that increase understanding and cooperation will be practiced.
Group will consist of 5 - 10 teen/parent dyads and will meet for 10
weeks. For more information or to sign up, call Dawn Foster at
562-843-7056.
INCREASING
THE PEACE WITHIN:
ALTERNATIVES TO SELF-HARM
TEEN SUPPORT GROUP
DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE YOU WILL DIE
FROM THE INTENSITY OF YOUR EMOTIONS? DO YOU FEEL INCAPABLE OF
FINDING RELEASE FROM YOUR FEELINGS WITHOUT THE USE OF
SELF-HARMING BEHAVIOR? DO YOU SOMETIMES CUT OR BURN YOURSELF TO
RELEASE OVERLY PAINFUL AND INTENSE FEELINGS? IF SO, YOU NEED
THIS GROUP!
Group will focus on
self-understanding, the process by which painful feelings grow to the point of feeling
unbearable, and finding alternatives for releasing these painful feelings before they
reach the point where you need to harm yourself.
Group members will also explore
feelings of low self-worth and low self-value while learning to alter their
negative self-misperceptions and replace them with self-love, self-forgiveness, and
feeling valuable.
This group will provide a confidential and supportive
environment in which to explore current concerns leading to the build-up of painful
emotions, ways you are presently dealing with these and options for resolving
distressing conflicts within yourself, as well as increasing feelings of worthiness.
Group will consist of 10 students and will meet
once a week.
For more information or to sign up, call Dawn Foster
at 562-843-7056.
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