WHY PEOPLE CONSULT
Different motives will bring parents to consult for their children or adolescents. Usually, consultation will be triggered when youths report feeling anxious, sad, emotionally ill-at-ease, or when family and friends notice important changes in the youth’s behaviors. Adults consult when they experience some of the issues listed below, in order to develop a better way of dealing with such difficulties.
Examples of issues leading to consultation
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Feeling sad or nervous in school, at home, at work.
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Showing important learning difficulties, or difficulties with homework.
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Having physical symptoms without any identifiable causes (headaches, stomachaches).
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Having difficulties making and keeping friends (social isolation or aggressiveness).
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Low self-esteem.
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Timidity, having a hard time expressing oneself, lacking self-confidence.
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Difficulties with siblings.
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Difficulties with one’s children.
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Difficulties related to parental separation or divorce.
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Difficulties related to divorce or separation.
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Difficulties adapting to a new family environment including step-parents, step-siblings, or a new partner’s children.
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Any diagnosed disorder which needs psychological therapy (ADHD, anxiety disorder, mood disorder).
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Any type of maltreatment (sexual, physical or psychological abuse).