Child & Adolescent Psychology

At Insight we can help your child or adolescent with:

Anxiety (including but not limited to separation anxiety, OCD, VCE stress and procrastination)

Problems with attention and concentration

Depression or mood difficulties/teenage depression (including self-harming)

Low self-esteem and/or low self-confidence

Bullying

Behavioural problems including oppositionality or conduct disorder

Coping with divorce or other family problems including loss

Relationship problems with family members

Insight also offers educational assessments to measure your child’s cognitive and academic strengths and weaknesses. A child or adolescence’s memory and attention can also be assessed. Children are often referred for these assessments when they are having difficulties at school or alternatively are doing well academically but are exhibiting behavioural issues due to boredom.

The aim of the assessment is to use a wide variety of information from a number of sources to consider different possibilities for the difficulties being experienced. Understanding a child’s strengths (more developed skills) and weaknesses (less developed skills) means parents and teachers can deliver information that aligns with a child’s strengths, fostering understanding in the school and home environment. Recommendations are made that are designed to assist the child and their families to improve functioning.