Counseling Services for Children
A variety of individual and group therapeutic approaches are available such as:
- Play Therapy - Therapists use this approach as a powerful therapeutic tool for young children, enabling them to master the current life stress through directed play with a trained worker .
- Family Therapy - The Children's Center works with JFS staff to help the family use it own strengths to handle a crisis or ongoing difficulties in coping.
- Psychiatric Consultation - The Children's Center's staff works closely with outstanding child psychiatrists to develop the best treatment plans for your child. Medication follow ups can be arranged on an as needed basis.
- Art Therapy - Using the medium of art to facilitate expressing difficult feelings.
- Social Skills Groups - Group programs to help children whose neurological and learning difficulties makes social interactions doubly challenging.
Listen to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)'s Medical Director, Dr. Ken Duckworth answer the questions "Can children and adolescents really develop mental illness, and what is mental illness? How do I know if my child is really having a problem, or if it is just a phase, and when do I seek help?" For more info visit http://www.nami.org
For information or to make a referral contact Intake at the Riskin Children Center (973) 777-7638 or j.jfs@jfsclifton.org
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