Community Care
JANUARY 10, 2023
The government has proposed changing the law to make it easier for adults to access adoption-related counselling. The Department for Education is consulting on removing the requirement for counsellors providing adoption-related therapy to adults to register with Ofsted as adoption support agencies.
University of Connecticut
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
I am also a school social worker for Hartford Public Schools and I run a small business, ‘Ends2meet LLC’, which creates awareness on poverty and provides people with basic needs including counseling. What are your favorite hobbies?
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Gary Direnfeld
JULY 24, 2022
The teen increasingly moves from seeing and accepting the patent as boss to seeing them more and more as a consultant. As a consultant, the teen takes the expectations of the parent under advisement and then knowing or unknowingly to the parent, makes their own decisions. That is simply part of the growing up process.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 26, 2024
You could fight us in court, where you’re entitled to free legal counsel if you’re indigent, where federal law requires us to make reasonable efforts to keep your family together and where an actual judge decides if we can take your children away. The bill says families must be notified of their right to consult a lawyer.
Gary Direnfeld
JANUARY 23, 2023
I recently declined two requests for couple counseling. Couple counseling can be an intense setting where issues are laid bare. Interestingly, in both cases the callers were prepared to continue with couple counseling despite their disclosures of untoward behavior. I suggested individual counseling in both cases.
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 16, 2022
While I am pleased so many parents value counseling and want it for their kids, do know that it is not always helpful and indeed, can be harmful. Many kids interpret counseling as them having done something bad for which they must now talk to someone. Counseling in those situations won’t affect the cause.
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 30, 2023
It’s not uncommon for me to decline a request for couple counseling. Couple counseling can be an intense experience. When concerns are evident about the safety and integrity of couple counseling, individual counseling may be required to address the areas of concern to prepare the persons for couple counseling.
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