- Children selected for safety and social/emotional growth
- Addresses issues not reachable with the single-client model
- Broadens and deepens social and emotional development through real-life experience
Social and Emotional Development
What We Offer
In our Social and Emotional Development program, we provide a safe nurturing environment which is designed to improve your child’s social and emotional skills.
The program is led by our team with many years of experience changing maladaptive behaviors to desirable and healthy behaviors. Each session is consist of a well-crafted therapeutic activity in which your child will think of as fun.
Highlights
- Realistic social environment with a range of ages and personal characteristics
- Planned, achievable therapeutic goals
- Usually covered by health insurance
- Program ratio (e.g., 1 therapist to 3-4 children)
Areas of Focus:
- Constructive conflict resolution
- Support of others: the importance of giving and the responsibility of receiving
- Enhancing sensory experiences
- Increased ability to play with others
- Mutual respect and tolerance
- Self reliance
Social and Emotional Development
This service focuses on ways to promote children's emotional literacy, anger management, appropriate conflict management strategies, expected classroom behaviors, and positive social skills or friendship behaviors with other children and adults.
Understanding Emotions
The ability to self-soothe and work through emotions is essential for school readiness. It is the foundation for social & academic success.
Frustration & Acting Out
Children become frustrated when they can’t recognize their emotions or when they lack an emotional vocabulary to express themselves.
Impulse Control
Children need simple tools in order to show themselves down and identify what they are feeling before they take action.