Wellbeing｜Parent’s Lecture – Forming Good Habits and Communicating Effectively

On September 19th, the THIS counseling team invited Ms. Yang Xuchen, a psychologist and nationally certified psychological counselor, to give two lectures on the theme of ” Forming Good Habits and Communicating Effectively” to the parents of both primary and secondary parents. Ms. Yang Xuchen analyzed the difficulties and key points in parent-child relationship from the perspectives of different ages and stages of growth separately of primary and secondary students, and provided a new understanding and practical methods on how to help children establish good habits and how to build effective communication channels between parents and children. Parents were inspired and benefited from Ms. Yang’s analysis of the principles and practical cases.

Dr. Gerald Anthony (Primary School Counselor and Wellbeing Coordinator) and Ms. Laura Zhang (Secondary School Counselor) from the counseling team hope that through organizing this kind of seminar for parents, we can help parents to understand better about what occur in the process of their children’s growth, to understand and support their children in the process of growing, and to learn and improve themselves with their children. Moreover, we hope to collaborate with the parents to help their children’s physical and mental health and development and to empower them to a bright future.

Ms. Xuchen Yang

• Master of Child Psychological Development from the Chinese Academy of Sciences

• National Certified Psychological Consultant

• Lecturer of Mindful Self-Compassion System at Harvard Medical School

• Lecturer of Hellinger Family Constellations at Hellinger School in Germany

Practiced in Beijing Anding Hospital, working in the psychological industry for nearly ten years, Xuchen was invited to give lectures in multiple enterprises and schools, such as Beijing Chen Jinglun School, Beijing Keystone International School, Beijing Yifan International School, Beijing New Talent School, Beijing Shunyi Hospital, Beijing Qingniao Training, etc. Xuchen is an expert at combining the Positive Discipline System content of Western family education with Chinese traditional Confucian education concepts while helping parents find the appropriate educational concepts and methods that adapt to the current social and humanistic environments. Xuchen also has great experience at adjusting the psychological problems of common adolescents and children who are tired of or dropping out of school, correcting addictive behaviors and habits, and treating mental diseases such as children’s tics, hyperactivity, and depression.