Does professional intervention help a child adjust to life's challenges? Should I consider this for my son and daughter?
Dear Dr. E, I have noticed an increasing number of parents, even within the Church, are hiring therapists for their children. I’ve heard a story about a mother who hired a psychologist to help her daughter adjust to preschool. I have also heard about parents of preteens putting therapists on retainer to help on an as-needed basis with everything from basic relational stress to birth control decisions.
Frankly, much of the advice that passes for “counseling” today is garbage. This is my industry. I have three degrees in this stuff. I know the underlying theories behind much, if not most, of it, and while there is a lot that I find fascinating, there is one common thread that you should be aware of. The preponderance of modern psychological theory comes to the wrong conclusions because it looks at the wrong thing.Suppose I gave you an assignment to develop a “theory of fish.
So, here’s the question: Is your theory accurate? The answer is yes because you wrote down exactly what you saw, touched, and smelled. What your theory lacks is the recognition that if you would pick these fish up and put them back in the water, they would flourish and be what they were intended to be.
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