PARENTING EDUCATION
The Happiness Project offers a comprehensive Parenting Program designed to support and empower parents in raising happy, healthy, and well-adjusted children. Our program provides a range of resources and tools to help parents navigate the complexities of parenting, from early childhood through adolescence. With a focus on positive parenting techniques, emotional intelligence, and effective communication, our program aims to strengthen the parent-child relationship and foster a nurturing home environment.
Program Highlights
Positive Parenting Techniques: Learn evidence-based strategies to encourage positive behavior, set healthy boundaries, and promote a respectful and cooperative family dynamic.
Emotional Intelligence: Understand the importance of emotional intelligence in parenting. Gain skills to help your child recognize, understand, and manage their emotions effectively.
Effective Communication: Improve your communication skills to better connect with your child. Learn how to listen actively, express empathy, and resolve conflicts in a constructive manner.
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​Stress Management: Discover techniques to manage parental stress and maintain your well-being. Learn how to model healthy coping mechanisms for your child.
Developmental Guidance: Receive expert advice on child development milestones and age-appropriate parenting strategies. Understand the unique needs of your child at each stage of their growth.
Behavioral Support: Address common behavioral challenges with practical solutions. Learn how to implement consistent discipline strategies that promote positive behavior changes.
Family Dynamics: Explore ways to strengthen family bonds and create a supportive home environment. Learn how to balance individual needs with family cohesion.
Types of Parenting Program
Positive Parenting Program
This program focus on equipping parents with information and skills to increase confidence and self-sufficiency in managing child behavior. It can be utilized with a wide age range of children from toddlerhood through adolescence.
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
In this program, we work with parents and children together, teaching them skills to interact in a positive, productive way. It is a practice-intensive mode, as parents demonstrate mastery of positive interactions and discipline strategies.
What's My Child Thinking?
Parent Child Play Therapy
This program covers important issues, such as temper tantrums, child friendships, sibling rivalry, aggressive behavior, and peer pressure. There's also a bank of practical survival guides for critical times, such as traveling in the car, eating out, and going online safely. Rooted in evidence-based clinical psychology and championing positive parenting, this program will help you tune in to your child's innermost thoughts and be the parent you want to be.
This is a play-based treatment program for young children presenting with behavioral, emotional, social, and attachment concerns. In a supportive group environment, parents learn skills to respond more effectively to their children's emotional and behavioral concerns. The goal is to strengthen the quality of the parent-child attachment bond as a means of reducing child behavior problems and stress in the parent-child relationship.This program was developed for children ages 3- 8, but has been adapted for use with toddlers and preadolescents.
Autism / ADHD Parenting
This program focuses on equipping parents with parenting approaches and tools needed to raise kids with ADHD or Autism. Developing an understanding of ADHD and Autism is often the beginning of a new journey within families, one that allows a better understanding of their children, who they are, and how they see the world. We use a modular intervention that is based on research and clinical practice in the areas of social communication and naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions.
Teen Defiant Parenting
This program involves both parents, and teenagers. Parents will be trained with more effective tools for interacting with their teenager, specifically for handling noncompliance or defiant behavior, while there will be training for the adolescent to help them become a participants in changing the family dynamic. In the second half, parents and teenagers are both trained in problem-solving communication.