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What do we do?

Hestía's department of school and educational psychology is constituted by specialists in Educational and Developmental Psychology, as well as Child Therapy.

Our main objective is to promote the learning and development of children and adolescents on an emotional, psychological and social level, activating their resources and potential.

We offer information, training and specialized attention through an integral practice.

We use our knowledge and experience in psychology and human development to comprehend and respond to the needs of children and adolescents.

We offer information and training to parents and teachers on areas related to child development.

We support a close collaboration with parents and teachers, as well as with other adults that are related and committed to the education and wellbeing of the children.

Services

Our services are divided into two main categories:

• Information, Education and Training (hacer link)
• Family Support (hacer link)

Information, Education and Training

These services consist in a series of talks and workshops, directed to schools and other educational institutions, private or public.

Talks: The talks are directed to parents and teachers, the main actors of the educational system. Our aim is to provide useful and up-to-date information that will help them address a variety of frequent and important issues, problems and doubts, in relation to the education of children and adolescents.

Workshops: (hacer link) Additionally, in our circle of workshops we offer the possibility to address a large variety of issues in accordance to the needs of those who consult us, aiming to provide useful tools and information that help parents and educators to overcome in positive, creative and constructive ways challenges inherent to the upbringing and education of children and adolescents.

List of Talks:

A significant number of social changes has brought about transformations both in the family as well as at school, redefining the roles that each occupy in the education. Current life makes it every time more necessary to come to an understanding/consensus between the two in favor of a more integrated and harmonious education. How can parents collaborate in the classroom from their homes? How can teacher and tutors support and enrich from school the parents' work from home?

Every class is a small ecosystem in which professors and alumni need to interact and work with a large diversity of ways of being, acting, feeling, which are based in the family and the culture we are surrounded by, Values, norms, limits are fundamental elements in order to overcome the challenge of successful learning at school, that prepare our children and adolescents for a world of increasing complexity and challenges.  We focus and get to know the strongholds and resources of the classes' inhabitants, the capacities as well as positive and negative leadership, and reflections on how we can encourage the "synergy" of the group in a climate of cooperation.

Theme: How to promote an environment of respect, cooperation and tolerance towards the differences. Leadership, authority figures: How to exercise authority without being authoritarian. Deconstruct the "malice" of authority. Co-create limits, norms and boundaries of cohabitation. Talk for parents and teachers.

Themes: The arrival of adolescence. Time of conflict or transformation? Autonomy vs. Dependence. What can we learn by our children during this stage?

The parental team, norms and boundaries. "Obligations and rights" of an adolescent, "obligations and rights" of a parent. The challenges the family has to face at this stage. Talk for parents.

Themes: Failure at school; dropping out. The meaning of education in today's world. The meaning we attribute to "learning". Expectations in relation to the education and training of our children. How to support them in their educational project and activate their potential.

Themes: Normal adolescence and how to identify signs of alarm. When we need to worry about our young. When, how and to what degree our intervention may be needed.  Talk directed to parents and teachers.

Themes: Decoding our children's behaviour: what do they want to communicate? The importance of play in child development and the creation of spaces that promote healthy and constructive relationships between parents and children. Talk directed to parents and teachers.

Themes: Problems in eating behaviour. Prevention and treatment. Food: When can it turn into a problema? When is it used as a means to express emotional discomfort? From physiological needs to emotional needs. Social distortions. Talk directed to parents.

IMPORTANT NOTE: For those who are not yet familiar with our work, we offer the possibility to do one of the above talks, with a 70% discount.

The Workshops offer:

-       Semi-structured sessions, combining theory and practice, exploring and applying a variety of techniques, interactive exercises and activities.

-       The opportunity to learn and acquire abilities, through the sharing of experiences, problematic situation and possible solutions.

-       The possibility to observe, interchange and practice strategies of resolution to problems, that can be applied to a large variety of situations and adapted to the unique situation and reality of each family and/or each group member.

-       The opportunity to observe, share and practice useful resources and capacities.

Prevent situations, Establish limits and boundaries, make good use of contingencies and punishment. Workshop for parents and teachers.

Communication: how and when to talk to our children about things that are important to us about their personal development. Normal adolescence; learn to detect conducts of risk and signs of alarm. How to promote spaces of effective communication between parents and children.

When do we educate our children? Inventing formulas to educate our children within social conditioning and professional obligations, in which all families are subjected to: "know how to be present". Workshop for parents.

Workshop of encounter between parents and children. An interchange and sharing of experiences, questions and a variety of issues that arise in the relationship between parents and adolescents. The aim of this workshop is to explore different ways of addressing challenging situations, common at this stage of development and life cycle of the families. We will look to widen the range of resources and strategies of both parents and adolescents, thus facilitating the process of establishing positive and constructive agreements.

"Breaking parental bad habits". We will explore and identify functional patterns of parenthood, according to the developmental stage of the children. We will talk about those aspects we need to remember of our upbringing when we were the children. We will discuss those aspects that we need to be aware of and/or adapt to, as parents in the 21^st century. We will explore strategies that will help us to fulfill our parental role, as best as possible. This workshop is thought of as a meeting point and encounter between parents.

Personalised attention to families

We offer the option of working with each family separately, in order to attend to the specific needs of each family unit.

How do we work?

- We hold an initial meeting with the parents -as well as tutors and/or other relevant adults, when appropriate. In this first meeting we conjointly plan and decide on the most adequate way forward for the family.

- We evaluate and offer specialized attention to the children.

- We offer professional consultancy to the parents.

- We offer training and professional consultancy to those adults that are close to the children and can help promote positive changes.

- We inform the family on the findings of our evaluations and therapeutic week.

- We follow closely the child's process and evolution and offer continuous feedback and consultancy, in accordance to hiso r her needs.

- In case we detect a need for a more clinical approach and attention, we offer family or child therapy.

- We always work as a team.

Location

We work both in the installations of our centre, Hestía, and in other locations, that are adequately equipped for the type of activity we conduct and the number of participants.

Information

If you would like to hire our services or to receive more information about our work, you may contact us via email Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann. or phone us at 934592802, or at 608384682. You may also request an appointment with Irene Zschaeck, the professional in charge of this department.