Herbert Jay Rosenfield, ACSW, LCSW, BCD
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Director

Helping You Solve Life's Problems™ since 1980

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What Frequently are the Goals of Therapy?

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• To gain healthier control over your life’s ship!
  
• To look in the mirror and for you to better like
  that person who is looking back at you!
  
• To develop and to maintain greater, healthy,
  regular balance in your life!

And

• To identify losses, experiences, or incidents in your life that are serving as an anchor, a shackle to you … and
  
• To find the right “keys” to unlock most of your anchors
  So you can move ahead more smoothly and more happily
  Through all of the waters of your life!

“Helping You Solve Life’s Problems” ™ since 1980

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Director: Herbert Jay Rosenfield, ACSW, LCSW, BC

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Ten Commandments of Successful Parenting

TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SUCCESSFUL PARENTING!
From CARING PARENTS:  A Guide to Successful Parenting
A book, in progress, by Herbert Jay Rosenfield, ACSW, LCSW, BCD

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1. You shall raise your child, firstly, as a ‘human being’ and, secondly, as a ‘boy’ or ‘girl’!   
    
2. You shall build your child’s self-esteem -- through appropriate praise, attention, and encouragement!
   
   
3. You shall give your child gradual independence -- through appropriate opportunities for growth, exploration, and experimentation!
   
   
4. You shall give your child comfortable boundaries – by age-appropriate limits which are clearly state and consistently applied!
   
   
5. You shall give your child an understanding of his feelings -- through opportunities and assistance to express his own feelings verbally!
   
   
6. You shall teach you child healthy attitudes and factual information about ‘human sexuality’ in an age-appropriate and sensitive manner!
   
   
7. You shall teach your child to be responsible to others beyond himself -- by age-appropriate opportunities to be a contributing member of the family!
   
   
8. You shall demonstrate respect for your child by the manner in which you act to and speak to her!
   
   
9. You shall assist your child to attain a ‘balanced lifestyle’ by exposure to and encouragement to participate in a variety of interest areas and activities!
   
   
10. You shall teach you child how to behave by your own ‘role-modeling’, communicating positive expectations by example!

© Herbert Jay Rosenfield 1985, 1993, 2000, 2007

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PARALLELS BETWEEN HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS

I recently have observed that there are significant parallels between the five different paradigms I have learned or created and I have shared with clients to help define “healthy settings” and “healthy behaviors” in parenting, self-esteem development, friendship and love relationships, employment settings, and in stress-reduction interventions. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised, since we human beings have certain needs that we deserve to have met, regardless of the setting or the nature of the relationship.

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Herb Rosenfield, LCSW

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The Adolescent & Family Counseling Center offers therapeutic care and other services including health, mental health and educational services, through individual, adolescents, couples, family and group psychotherapy, by performing assessments and evaluations, and by offering presentations and workshops in psychotherapy, educational assessemnts, substance abuse, addictions, stress, grief, children, divorce, sexual depression, anxiety, attention deficit, hyperactivity, ADHD, EAP, parenting, private practice, insurance, panels. Our staff consists of family counselors, psychotherapists, individual and marriage counseling, child counseling, LCSW, PsyD, LMFT, LPC, social worker, psychologist, psychiatrist, MD, MSW in the Cheshire, Meriden, Wallingford, Southington, Danbury and other areas.