Group Therapy & Programs
Parenting for ADHD: Support and Strategies for Parents
This 10-week group provides parents of children with ADHD and other behavioral concerns (ages 2–12) with a supportive community to learn effective child behavior management skills and strategies. Throughout the course of the group, parents will learn to understand oppositional and noncompliant behaviors at home and at school and develop the tools to manage and reduce them.
Circle of Security Parenting Group
The group therapy room at our Chester, NJ location
This attachment-based parenting group runs on an 8-week cycle and meets for one and a half hours each week. Throughout the course of the group, parents will learn strategies to help understand and manage their child’s behavior in a mutually respectful way.
Through the program, parents will develop tools to enhance their child’s self-esteem and foster independence while simultaneously strengthening the parent-child relationship.
This group is designed for parents of infants, children, and adolescents.
Strong Girls: A Preteen and Teen Coping Skills Group
Strong Girls is a group for preteen and adolescent girls (grades 5–12) who are experiencing challenges related to middle school or high school.
This may include academic stressors associated with schoolwork and planning for college, relationship issues, and conflicts with peers and parents. The goal of this group is to provide preteen and teen girls with effective, healthy coping skills to help manage emotions and improve relationships.
Format: The Strong Girls group runs year-round on an 8-week cycle, and many participants continue in multiple cycles of the group. New skills are presented weekly, and participants are given the opportunity to problem-solve around current stressors with group leaders and each other.
West Morris Social Skills Program
Is your child struggling with making or keeping friends? Does he or she have difficulty managing anger? Does he or she have a hard time sharing or being a good sport?
Our social skills training program can help your child improve these skills and more! Groups may cover various topics, including:
- Accepting and understanding consequences
- Anger management
- Being a good sport
- Conversation skills, including joining in, initiating and maintaining a conversation
- Cooperation and compromise
- Feelings education
- Meeting new people
- Nonverbal communication skills, including eye contact, body language, and personal space
- Social problem-solving
- Stress management and coping skills (for teens)
- Teamwork
Our groups are completely customized to meet the needs of the particular children in each group and run for eight weeks.
Groups run year-round, and many children enroll in multiple group cycles.
We offer groups for all ages, from preschool to high school.