How does it work?
Many parents have worries and concerns about their children. If you would like to ask about a problem, first you have to join the site. This involves the completion of a highly detailed questionnaire. You choose how much information to give us; everything you tell us is completely confidential.
The questionnaire asks all sorts of details about the family composition. It is important for the psychologist to be able to place the child within a context. This involves knowing how many brothers and sisters he has, where he comes in the family, whom he sees regularly etc. By asking these questions at this stage, we can start to have some idea of whom we can involve, how difficulties may have arisen, to whom we can turn for support. These are the bare bones: there are many more things to find out - taking a child's history will often include details of the birth, what he is experiencing at school, friendships etc - but this is a good place to start.
The questionnaire also means that if you later have concerns about any of your children, the general family information is already there.
Then we ask you to explain the problem in as much detail as you feel would be helpful, and determine what you want from us. If you want suggestions for a different approach, confirmation that you are doing the right thing, clarification that this should or should not be a concern, advice etc, tell us. Parents usually worry for a reason. We shall always endeavour to reply within two days, often sooner, although, obviously it may take a lot longer for us to resolve the problem together.
Once you have joined the site, you will also have access to a number of papers on a range of topics from Bullying through Choosing Child Care to Feeding Problems. These may help you with other issues.
The site is as secure as we can make it. There will never be advertising, your names will never be given to any other party. You will note that we do not want to know your address; anything we discuss will be absolutely confidential - as it would be in any face-to-face involvement with a psychologist.
The questionnaire asks all sorts of details about the family composition. It is important for the psychologist to be able to place the child within a context. This involves knowing how many brothers and sisters he has, where he comes in the family, whom he sees regularly etc. By asking these questions at this stage, we can start to have some idea of whom we can involve, how difficulties may have arisen, to whom we can turn for support. These are the bare bones: there are many more things to find out - taking a child's history will often include details of the birth, what he is experiencing at school, friendships etc - but this is a good place to start.
The questionnaire also means that if you later have concerns about any of your children, the general family information is already there.
Then we ask you to explain the problem in as much detail as you feel would be helpful, and determine what you want from us. If you want suggestions for a different approach, confirmation that you are doing the right thing, clarification that this should or should not be a concern, advice etc, tell us. Parents usually worry for a reason. We shall always endeavour to reply within two days, often sooner, although, obviously it may take a lot longer for us to resolve the problem together.
Once you have joined the site, you will also have access to a number of papers on a range of topics from Bullying through Choosing Child Care to Feeding Problems. These may help you with other issues.
The site is as secure as we can make it. There will never be advertising, your names will never be given to any other party. You will note that we do not want to know your address; anything we discuss will be absolutely confidential - as it would be in any face-to-face involvement with a psychologist.
