
Being a long established practice in clinical psychology, this service addresses a wide range of the emotional, behavioural and attitudinal problems. While the service is well geared to the treatment of many anxiety-related problems in adults, there is also a strong commitment to provide psychological services to assist with the emotional, behavioural and educational well-being of children.
Anxiety-related problems may be caused by one's environment
(work or home), a traumatic experience, an injury or one's own personality.
They result in a variety of unpleasant, disruptive and (sometimes) painful
symptoms that can include ...
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Issues experienced mostly by children include ...
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You will notice that these are issues that disrupt ordinary people's lives, and it is the ordinary person (experiencing extraordinary emotions and circumstances) that psychologists are best equipped to help.
A note about child behaviour management.
With regard to child behaviour management, it is important
to keep in mind that there is a window of opportunity between the ages
of about 2 to about 9 when you have the best opportunity to be successful using Behaviour
Modification techniques. Once this opportunity has
passed, Behavioural techniques (though still of some benefit) are likely to be of less value.