Psychological assistance to parents raising a child in single-parent families

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Psychological assistance to parents raising a child in single-parent families
(seminar-training lasting 10 hours)
Coach – Victoria Vyacheslavovna Nazarevich, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Psychology, Head of the School of Coaching Skills, Trainer of Educational Trainings, Psychologist of the Highest Qualification Category, Member of the Western Ukrainian Association of Art Psychologists and Art Therapists. Additional education: specialized training – “Trainer of educational and thematic trainings” (Kiev, 1999), training under the training program “Methodology of youth seminars”, “Moderation” (Kiev, 2000), Isotherapy (Moscow 2011).

Target audience of the training: Seminar – training for psychologists, educators and social educators, parents, psychotherapists, students interested in this topic.
The purpose of the event: the formation of a comfort zone for the child, assistance in pressing issues, overcoming feelings of guilt towards the child, the development of adequate norms and mutual assistance between parents and the child.
Task of the event: To provide the participants of the seminar-training with information materials, psychological assistance tools, technologies on the peculiarities of psychological work with parents raising a child in an incomplete family.
Event program
1. Causes and consequences of the destructive upbringing of a child in an incomplete family
(multimedia lecture + business game “Me and dad, me and mom”). Formation of a comfort zone for a child as a result of overcoming destructive forms of education.
2. The main mistakes of parents (technology for monitoring attitudes towards the child. The role-playing game “What should I give the child?” In which the system of hypercompensation is revealed)
3. The main technologies for harmonizing relationships: isotechnics “Two portraits”, a metaphorical story “Three wishes for mom”
4. Overcoming conflicts between the roles of “I” victim-hero.
5. Overcoming the feeling of guilt towards the child by the methods of art therapy – the technique of “Churning the guilt”
6. The technology of forming adequate attitudes for raising a happy child using the method of metaphorical associative cards “Persona” and “Personita”.
7. Providing emergency psychological support to parents in conflict situations – an algorithm of psychological support.
8. Analysis of difficult situations in the consultative process of parents.
As a result, the participants of the training seminar will receive:
– confidence in working with this category of parents
– Methods for diagnosing and correcting destructive parenting styles in single-parent families
– a certificate confirming the improvement of the qualification level on this issue
– Experience in handling complex cases.