The success of a counseling program relies heavily on the relationship between a therapist and his or her patient. Here at Perspectives Of Troy Counseling Centers in Michigan, we have specialists in nearly every area of mental health and behavioral development. We...
Is your child worried about going back to school? Some kids get excited about seeing their friends and advancing to a new grade, but many other kids in Michigan experience intense anxiety about entering a new environment. If your child has been behaving oddly over the...
According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, there are approximately 3,000 children available for adoption in Michigan at any given time. Fortunately, many of these children are able to find loving families to call their own. With that in mind,...
In accordance with most state laws, foster parents and adoptive parents are not allowed to use corporal punishment to discipline their children. Spanking, slapping a child’s hand, washing a child’s mouth with soap, and other physical acts of discipline are not...
Most children go through stages of defiance at some point in their lives. Their opinions suddenly become more important than their parents, and they choose to misbehave as a result of it. Many of the children that we work in child counseling misbehave at school or at...
The traditional family dinner in Michigan doesn’t look the same as it used to. Instead of home-cooked meals and fun discussions about the day, many families find themselves grabbing bags of fast phone in between text messages and social media notifications. This...
Dysfunctional families often have elements of substance abuse (alcoholism or drug abuse), physical abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. When someone grows up in this kind of environment, they may continue the patterns of abuse in their own adult...
