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Family Program
Focus on Family System & Transition
The final step of the program includes a
three-day workshop in which parent and child come together
to begin establishing grounds for future communication.
Empowered students demonstrate their newfound
attitudes, beliefs, and skills while modeling self-reliance,
maturity, and honest communication to those most important
in their lives, their parents.
Following a one-day parenting seminar with
a SUWS therapist, parents join their child in the field for
a one-night camping experience. Students and parents participate
in activities to promote the building of trust, intimacy,
and appropriate boundaries. Under the supervision of a trained
counselor, participants learn effective models of communication
which serve to encourage respect, empathy, and cooperation.
Additionally, participants have the opportunity
to address, and potentially resolve, conflicts responsible
for their feelings of resentment and hurt, and to begin the
healing process.
Families come together in a manner
which facilitates mutual respect, individual affirmation,
and provides for a stronger, more satisfying parent-child
relationship.
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