FAMILY NURTURING
The program is an intensive twelve-week program (3 hours, 1 night per week) designed to promote positive, healthy and nurturing interactions between parents and their adolescents (12 to 19 yrs.).
General Goals:
1. Increasing empathy in parents and teenagers
2. Increasing self-esteem and self-concept
3. Learning alternatives to physical and verbal aggression
4. Increasing an awareness of the developmental needs and characteristics of adolescents
Discussions On:
- Feelings
- Self-awareness
- Needs
- Communication
- Negotiation/Compromise
- Discipline/Rewards
- Handling Stress
- Anger Control
- Problem Solving
- Family Rules
- Consequences
- Dating/Love
- Problems with Parents
- Adolescence
- Substance Use/Abuse
- Pregnancy
- Growing Older
- Personal Power
- Anatomy
- Touch
- Sex
- STD’s
- Rejection