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Parents, Do You...

• Have a child with concerning behaviors, such as aggression, tantrums or defiance?
• Attempt to discipline your child, only to end up arguing or engaged in a power struggle?
• Feel overwhelmed or exhausted by the demands of parenting a neurodivergent child?
• Feel like you've tried "everything," wondering why rewards & consequences haven't worked?
• Notice your child becoming academically or socially disengaged, not wanting to go to school?
• Get calls from school about your child's behavior?
• Experience guilt, shame, or doubt about your parenting?
• Struggle to manage your own emotional response to your child's challenging behavior?

Children with concerning and challenging behaviors are often misunderstood.

Myth: Children with undesired behaviors are unmotivated, attention-seeking, lazy, out-of-control, poorly parented or defiant.

Fact: Children with undesired behaviors often have diagnosed or undiagnosed neurological, developmental, or learning differences. Many have neurodiversity, behavioral health challenges or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Sometimes just the way the world responds to challenging behaviors is an ACE. Children of the families we serve often have a diagnosis that may include ADHD, ASD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, DMDD, ODD, Attachment Disorder, PDA, etc. Some have no diagnosis at all. The good news? The approach we teach is appropriate for EVERY child, youth and young adult.

Compliance is about skill, not will.

HBCC programs are grounded in the Collaborative Problem Solving®(CPS) approach. CPS is owned and developed by Think:kids, a program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

CPS leads to significant positive outcomes including:

• Reductions in challenging behavior
• Reductions in adult-child stress
• Improved adult-child relationships
• Improved problem-solving skills