Child, Adolescent and Parent Counselling and Mental Health Treatment

17/09/2022

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28/10/2020

Ok people, I have not been able to take this any further for some time due to health issue. Now COVID is in the way as this type of work needs to be done in person and face to face.

I am now in the position to take on some work, as things regarding COVID hopefully improve in the Spring I will advertise myself.

Please contact me for further information

Mark Jolly

12/06/2018

I’m still not ready to launch this, it’s a contractual thing, but soon 😊

01/04/2018

Are you worried about your Child? Have you noticed a sudden and big change in their behaviour? Has your child withdrawn completely, won’t talk to you or anyone else, No longer goes out, avoids people or places? Have you tried talking to your child but get nowhere? Is this significantly different to “normal” in their behaviour? Does your child worry too much about things?

Is your child’s behaviour difficult to manage? Has your child become defiant? Has your child become aggressive, in the use of language, breaking things, physically hurting others?

Does your child harm themselves?

Do you feel low, depressed, ineffective yourself? Do you worry too much about things?

Are there lots of arguments at home? Between parents? Between Children? Between Parents and Children? Between everyone?

If so I may be able to help.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT THE APPOINTMENT?

First of all I would like to meet your child, and both parents if possible, if not just one parent. At this appointment we would explore together what the worries are, and try to understand what is going on and why. This may take more than one appointment.

From this assessment we will agree a plan. This may include individual sessions for parent \ parents, individual sessions for child, parent and child together, and possibly family sessions. We would agree opportunities to review progress as we go along.

We would agree specific types of interventions as we go. Including agreement of times and places of appointments, and what to do if someone is unable to attend the appointment. We will also agree as we go on any changes in the plan.

There is likely to be an element of practicing some of the things we discuss at home in between sessions, and we would discuss how well these things may have worked next time we meet.

We will discuss and agree what confidentiality may look like during the first session, including who, if anybody, information may be shared with.

It should be noted that as a professional I have an obligation and duty to keep Children, Young People and vulnerable adults safe. Therefore, in the unlikely event that hear something within our sessions that causes me to believe that someone may be at risk of some type of harm, I may have to report this to an appropriate agency. I would always discuss this with yourself before I did this, unless I had a good reason not to, for example if having this discussion may place someone at risk of harm.

All people working with children and vulnerable adults are by law expected to do this.

27/03/2018

Services Are be available for Statutory Agencies. This includes

Consultations for Professionals aimed at making sense of what may be going on for difficult to manage families. This may include identifying if there is a mental health difficulty present, identifying attachment issues, identifying behavioural management issues, exploring the impact multiple agency involvement with the family may be having, formulation and care plan development

Attachment Work / Dyadic Work, including the use of approaches such as ~
I). Video Interaction Guidance type intervention
II) Watch, Wait and Wonder type intervention
III) Dyadic Developmentally Psychotherapy (DDP) type intervention
IV) Wondering out Loud approach
V) Individual Work
VI) Family Work
VII) Consultation and Formulation work directly with families

Written reports can be provided as agreed and appropriate

27/03/2018

Please view my page. I am constantly developing what I am able to offer, this is in line with identifiable needs of Children, Young People and their families. I am able to offer a service directly to individuals, families and agencies such as Schools and the Local Authority. Please contact me initially by sending a message or phone call to discuss.

An hourly rate will be charged for face to face work and report writing.

A rate will be identified for non face to face work

It is my aim to develop an initial assessment rate. Any ongoing assessment work outside of the initial assessment will be charged at face to face, or non face to face rate as applicable.

I will travel to you, either in the family home, school or professionals offices. There may be a charge for traveling dependant upon distance.

Rates have not yet been identified.

27/03/2018

About me.

My professional qualification is a Child Care Social Worker.

For the last 16 years I have worked for NHS C.A.M.H.S ( child and adolescent mental health services). I have experience, qualifications and training working with Children, Young People and Adults.

Previous to this I gained 5 years experience working for the Local Authority as a Child Care Social Worker, specifically within safeguarding, looked after children, court work and youth offending service.

I am able to offer ~

Assessment of the situation with the aim of gaining understanding of what the issues may be, what may have caused these issues, and what sort of things might be done in order to help make a positive change to the situation.

Provide a letter or a report detailing these conclusions

Help the individual and family develop a plan aimed at meeting identified needs

Provide Counselling or Therapeutic interventions as appropriate and agreed. the type of work I am able to offer includes.

1. FAMILY WORK
This may include getting agreed members of the family together in order to explore how everyone gets on together, identify any issues that may cause difficulty getting on with each other, explore these issues from different peoples points of view so that all family members begin to understand each other’s point of view, and then explore together if there may be some things that could be done differently in order to help people get on better together.

2. INDIVIDUAL WORK
This may be either with the child, young person, parent of adult aimed at exploring identified needs. This could be exploring issues in the here and now, or issues that may have happened in the past which may impact on the here and now. This may include therapeutic interventions such as ~
I) Cognitive Behaviour Counselling (using aspects of CBT but I am not a qualified CBT Therapist)
II) Solution Focused Approaches
III) Mindfulness
IV) Reflective Active Listening
V) Problem Solving

3. RELATIONSHIP WORK (Attachment Work)
This may be working on specific relationships such as between parent and child, between parents or sibling work. Approaches used may include ~
I) the 4 approaches detailed above
II). Dyadic work, including the use of video (Video Interactive Guidance (VIG) approaches), aspects of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) model

4. BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT WORK
The aim of this work would be to empower parents to understand and manage their child or young persons difficult to manage behaviour, and how this may impact on the child, young person or the parent. This work may include aspects of all of the previously mentioned 6 approaches, but is also based on aspects of ~
I) Triple P ( Positive Parenting Programme)
II) 1,2,3 Magic.

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