Child and Family Resource Clinic

The Child and Family Resource Clinic offers on-going parent education classes and support groups. We also offer parent education on an individual basis. Counselors work with parents, helping them to develop parenting skills, and providing an encouraging and supportive environment.
The CFRC offers specialized parent education services known as filial therapy. Filial therapy is defined as

a unique approach used by professionals trained in play therapy to train parents to be therapeutic agents with their own children through a form of didactic instruction, demonstration play sessions, required at-home laboratory play sessions, and supervision in a supportive atmosphere. Parents are taught basic child-centered play therapy principles and skills including reflective listening, recognizing and responding to children's feelings, therapeutic limit setting, building children's self-esteem, and structuring required weekly play sessions with their children using a special kit of selected toys. Parents learn how to create a nonjudgmental, understanding, and accepting environment that enhances the parent-child relationship, thus facilitating personal growth and change for child and parent. (Landreth & Bratton, 2006, p. 11)

 

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940-565-2066
CFRCPaperwork@unt.edu

The Child and Family Resource Clinic offers psychoeducational assessment services to children ages 6 to 16. A team comprised of counseling and speech/language/hearing specialists conduct a thorough evaluation over a three-day period. The interdisciplinary team meets following the evaluation to share knowledge and impressions gathered during the testing. Team members then meet with the child's parents to report their findings and make recommendations and suggestions for helping the child both academically and emotionally. This comprehensive assessment is offered to families with children and/or adolescents who are experiencing difficulties at school or home.
CFRC's psychoeducational assessment evaluates the following areas:

• Intellectual functioning
• Learning processes (e.g., visual vs. auditory learning)
• Memory skills
• Visual-motor integration
• Behavioral functioning
• ADHD screening
• Anxiety and/or depression screening
• Self-concept and self-esteem
• Parent-child relationship

The speech/language/hearing evaluation assesses the following areas:

• Articulation: ability to produce speech sounds
• Expressive language: use of language including grammar and vocabulary in conversation and/or narratives
• Receptive language: understanding of language including following directions and knowledge of word relationships
• Voice: quality of voice
• Fluency: rhythm of speech
• Hearing screening: identify if further evaluation is needed regarding hearing ability and auditory processing skills
• Reading: ability to read real and nonsense words; accuracy, speed, and comprehension when reading paragraphs
• Writing: ability to construct sentences and paragraphs and use of mechanics
• Math: use of basic calculation skills and math problem solving

For more information
940-565-2066