Advocate Effectively for your Child: Simple Steps for Parents

My Background as an Advocate

My first time advocating for students as a professional was when I was a caseworker in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2006. At the time, I had completed my coursework for a Ph.D. in School Psychology. This included classes on the requirements for special education services and 504 accommodations. I learned how to advocate effectively through these early successes and failures advocating for children on my caseload.

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Parent Attendance in Therapy: Easy Way to Improve Results

One aspect of our clinic that parents, and even some clinicians, may find unusual is our requirement for parent attendance in therapy. We require parents to participate in every session for their child’s therapy appointments. The amount of time spent in the session could be a brief check-in regarding progress or attending the entire session. Typically speaking, the younger the child/lower the developmental level, the more time a parent spends in session; however, we do have some cases where the parent and older adolescent are together for the entire session. There are five main concerns I hear about our practice of involving parents. My hope is to address each concern to some degree and explain how our methods help most patients do better in therapy.

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Exciting Changes to the LBHC Website for the New Year

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Happy New Year! LBHC is excited to announce that we are launching a blog. These posts will contain LBHC announcements and helpful articles. As we welcome in the New Year, look for a new post each day for the next five days. After that, we will post new articles on Wednesday mornings. Please check back each week to read our new posts.

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