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Help Your Child/Adolescent to Develop Self-Management Skills: A Workshop

  • This program is a cost-effective way for participants to learn to evaluate their child's self-management skills, understand their child's strengths and weaknesses, focus on the most important issues, develop specific plans to change unwanted behaviors, and enhance their child's self-management.
  • You will receive a free tutorial for the SMART Family System, an innovative web-based software program. Create a customized behavioral program for your child that makes good behavior fun and rewarding, using the latest technology.
  • Implementing Self-Management strategies at home can make therapy more efficient and more effective — get more for your money in challenging economic times.

Topics Include:

  • What is self-managementSM?
  • Understanding deficits in self-managementSM: Compensating for deficits with self-managementSM skills

Learn how to:

  • Teach and model good self-managementSM.
  • Identify your child's temperament and develop strategies that match the child.
  • Develop rules and set limits positively and effectively.
  • Resolve differences between parents.
  • Communicate effectively with your child.
  • Identify your parenting style among the three most common parenting styles, and understand the style that is most effective.
  • Plan for your child's education and make adjustments in the school environment.
  • Participate effectively in treatment.

Teach your child to:

  • Develop empathy.
  • Manage feelings.
  • Manage day-to-day activities.
  • Connect cause and effect.
  • Become more responsible.
  • Become appropriately independent.
  • Improve social skills.

Diane N. Roche, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Tarnow Center for Self-Management;

Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,
Baylor College of Medicine.

More Information and Sign Up

Course Fee: $120, 50% discount for each additional family/household member

(Space is limited. Payment is required upon registration in order to guarantee your participation.)

Planned 2010 dates for the 3½ hour program are:
February 12, April 9, May 22, July 16, September 18, and November 5

Elementary School

Self-ManagementSM and Relationship Skills for School Age Children

Promoting Competence Self-ManagementSM and Relationship Skills for School Age Children

4th - 6th Grade Girls
Galleria Office: Mondays, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Diane N. Roche, Ph.D.

Late Elementary Boys Group
Galleria Office: Mondays, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Lourdes Valdes, Ph.D.

Self-ManagementSM and Social Skills for Boys
Promoting Social Competence, Self-ManagementSM and Behavior Management

Elementary Boys Group
Galleria Office: Mondays, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Diane N. Roche, Ph.D.

10-12 Year-Old Boys
Galleria Office: Tuesdays, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Lourdes Valdes, Ph.D.

Middle School Girls

Process and Self-ManagementSM for Girls

Self-managementSM skills, peer relationships, identity issues, and self-esteem.

Middle School Girls
Galleria Office: Tuesdays, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Diane N. Roche, Ph.D.

Process and Self-ManagementSM for Boys
Improve individual Self-ManagementSM skills,explore identity and independence and set personal goals

12-13 Year-Old Boys
Galleria Office: Wednesdays, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Lourdes Valdes, Ph.D.

10-12 Year Old Boys
Sugar Land Office: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Lourdes Valdes, Ph.D.

High School

Process and Self-ManagementSM for Girls

Improve self-esteem, develop peer and family relationship skills and set personal goals.

High School Girls
Galleria Office: Thursday, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Diane N. Roche, Ph.D.
Sugar Land Office: Wednesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Yael R. Ebenstein, Ph.D.

Process and Self-ManagementSM for Boys

Promoting social competence, self-managementSM, and behavior management

High School Boys
Sugar Land: Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm
Facilitator: Ron Swatzyna, Ph.D., LMSW

Young Adult

Young Men's Substance-Abuse Group

Prevent substance abuse through peer support and education

16-21 year olds
Sugar Land Office: Fridays, 5:00-6:00 PM
Facilitator: Ron Swatzyna, Ph.D., LMSW

Self-ManagementSM and the Young Adult

To continue to develop Self-ManagementSM skills as they relate to daily life, school, employment, or relationships

18 - 30 year olds
Galleria Office: Monday, 6:00 - 7:15 PM, Thursdays, 6:00 - 7:15 PM
Facilitator: Sophia Havasy, Ph.D.

Adults

Men's Group

Examine and improve intimate relationships and competence.
Galleria Office: Tuesdays, 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Facilitator: Jay D.Tarnow, MD

ADHD Self-Management Coaching Group

An integrated biopsychosocial approach provided by a mental health professional who has training and experience in a variety of psychological issues, but specifically in ADHD and the core impairments in self-management faced by the ADHD adult.

  • 8 weeks
  • $80 per session
  • Current Group April 2 - May 21.
  • Call for information about upcoming start dates

Individual Self-Management Coaching by appointment. Initial Consultation $160 (45 minutes) ***Customized plans according to your needs.

Call Dr. Roche to schedule a consultation and create a customized plan for you ADHD self-management coaching. Don't put it off; call now before your commitment to yourself is lost in the shuffle. You can understand your own limitations related to your ADHD, and make practical modifications that will create real change, leading to greater success and life satisfaction.