Children and Adolescents
Aims:
To provide therapeutic sessions to children and adolescents who experience
significant emotional difficulties arising from loss, abuse or other circumstances.
Nature of
service:
In conjunction with parents, carers and other child care professionals
the service will offer short, medium and long term treatments which will
focus both on the young person's difficulties and the family systems in
which they live.
Objectives:
The interventions are intended to make a difference evidenced throughÉ
- Resolution of immediate emotional conflicts.
- An improved sense of 'self' for the
child or young person.
- An improved ability in and quality of
relationships.
- A facilitation of appropriate development.
- A decreased need for disturbed behaviour
to communicate emotional difficulties.
TEDI Mission
Statement:
Each child with significant emotional difficulties has the right to skilled
personal therapy to:
- Aid recovery and;
- Develop his / her potential for maturity.
Consequently reducing the likelihood of
later mental health problems.
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