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We live in a world where an entire generation of children have been raised on a steady diet of violence
from seeing it on video games and the big screen to the nightly news. When this exposure is coupled with the use of violence to settle problems in the home or neighborhood, some children learn no other way to resolve conflicts.
Child Guidance & Family Solutions has a specialty team to serve children who show patterns of negative, hostile and defiant behaviors at home, school and/or in the community.
CG&FS offers several programs to help you and your child manage the problem behaviors and achieve better success at home, in school, and in the community. One program is Project: Excel (Examining Carefully Each Life). Project: Excel is a 10-week program that serves teens ages 13-17 while parents attend the Parent Project at Juvenile Court. Communication, problem solving, anger management, goal setting, conflict resolution skills are learned during group sessions and at a challenge course at Camp Y-Noah.
Individual and family counseling is also offered and is effective in two ways. First, it helps those involved deal with the issues that are causing the behavior problems. It also identifies the risk that the child and family are facing, such as a history of and exposure to violence, substance abuse in the family, the absence of a parent or a negative peer group.
Negative, hostile and defiant behaviors
At Child Guidance &Family Solutions, we have a special team to help children who have typically had Juvenile Court involvement or are considered at risk for it; have been suspended or expelled from school; and have had family relationship difficulties and behavior problems in the community.
Some of the negative behaviors the children may exhibit at home, school or in the community include:
Arguing with others
Blaming others
Annoying others
Losing their temper
Defying authority
Being mad or resentful
Poor school work and behavior
Gang behavior
Fighting, stealing or destroying property
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