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Parent coaching: training, overview of schools and offers at a glance

Parenting counseling training / parent coaching supports parents and guardians in parenting issues
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Are you looking for parent coaching training? - Here you will find suitable schools as well as further information, tips and resources for further training.

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Parent coaching: Professional support for families.

Children who are disabled, ill or difficult to raise require special attention from their parents and an increased level of care and understanding. However, it is not always easy for parents to understand how to deal with their children in the most promising and sensitive way. This can quickly lead to excessive demands and a feeling of helplessness. To prevent these feelings from gaining the upper hand, many people resort to the help of parent coaching in such situations.

Specialists who have undergone training and further training in the field of parent coaching help families with a wide range of worries and needs, support them in all situations and advise parents on all their questions about suitable parenting measures and strategies.

Here on Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch you will find lots of useful information on all training and further education opportunities in parent coaching. Find out which schools offer an educational program according to your wishes and contact them directly using the form. The individual schools will be happy to provide you with further information.

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Depending on your previous training and objectives, you can attend parent coaching courses lasting an evening or a few days, or complete coaching training courses lasting several months or an even longer period of time, which can be built on with further coaching or counseling training.

Time-saving and direct: Questions can be asked easily via our contact form or the "Ask a question" button of the respective school - without detours and without any obligation.

On the one hand, courses are offered for parents who want to take a closer look at parenting issues and are interested in sustainably improving the relationship between child and parents and positively promoting the child's development. On the other hand, schools and educational institutions offer courses that train interested parties to become coaches in parent coaching who want to work as parent counselors in the future. Depending on the training, interested parties without professional experience in a counseling role are admitted, as are those who are already working in counseling in the fields of social work, youth welfare, schools, youth and child psychiatry or youth work who want to delve deeper into this subject matter and learn about new concepts.

The admission requirements for a parent coaching course are determined independently by the schools. There may therefore be differences. However, there are often no restrictions.

We therefore recommend contacting the school of your choice directly. This can be done quickly, easily and without obligation using our contact form.

Various seminars are offered on the subject of parent coaching, aimed at the target group of parents who want to take part in a special course on modern parenting, a relaxed approach to their own children, the communication of values, world views, conflict resolution and many other issues relating to parenting. There are also courses that train counselors or prospective counselors to become parent coaches. These courses teach new concepts and methods (such as Marte Meo) or basic counseling skills, they are offered on individual topics, such as parent coaching for parents with mental disabilities or child protection, or as basic training for prospective parent counselors.

Overview of providers for Parent coaching

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A parent coach is also called a parent educator. You usually become a parent coach by completing a parenting counseling course. This is usually a course with a certificate. This requires a positive attitude to life and the ability to get started. A certain level of cooperation and independence is also important. Of course, you need to have parenting experience. However, if you want to work professionally as a parenting coach, you should ideally have completed training in adult education or training in the educational, psychological, social or medical field before training as a parenting coach. The profession usually involves freelance work.

Parent training or parent coaching is usually offered in the form of courses and seminars, where mothers and fathers are informed and trained on specific topics within parenting in the form of lectures and discussions. Parent counseling, on the other hand, is usually carried out exclusively with one or two parents and a specialist from the father and mother counseling service, often together with the child or children in question, where individual problems are discussed and joint solutions are sought.

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Alfred Adler Institute - IP Education
Specialist in education - educational coach, individual psychological counselor with a focus on educational counseling
3 modules - each module concludes with a diploma!
- the 1st module, the basic training to become an educational specialist
- the 2nd module, the advanced training to become an educational coach
- the 3rd module, the final training to become an individual psychological counselor with a focus on educational counseling

This will enable you to manage your everyday work or family life more competently - understand children better and implement new parenting strategies - enter a social profession - coach and support parents - arrange parenting courses under the umbrella of the Family Workshop - provide individual psychological counseling.

We are recognized by the SGfB. If you have attended all three modules, you can take a national examination at the SGfB to become an HFP counselor in the psychosocial field with a federal diploma. After taking this exam, you will be reimbursed half of the course costs by the federal government.
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PlaygroupsLEAD
We have been training and supporting parents and people who work with pre-school children since 1978. This takes the form of further training, advice and specialist publications that sensitize them in their work with children, inform them about what children need to grow up and develop healthily and provide them with practical suggestions and help.

Course: 5 modules with in-depth psychological and educational knowledge about pre-school children, their development, support and encouragement, for everyday life with young children. For parents who want to accompany their careers and families and, if desired, complete 2 additional modules to obtain a diploma as a playgroup leader. The qualification is recognized by the swiss. SSLV recognized.
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People who already work in the care of children and their parents or parents alone, such as playgroup leaders, father and mother caregivers, professionals from youth welfare, child psychiatry or all other professionals working in a social, medical, educational or therapeutic field, have various opportunities to further their education in care, coaching and training for parents. Depending on the educational institution, different courses are offered, for example in systemic parent coaching, which includes attachment, development and conflict theories, Marte Meo, hypnosystemic counseling, family psychology, non-violent resistance and parental presence. However, people who would like to train as a parent coach without too much professional experience in this field can also do so at some educational institutions. Please contact the respective providers for more information.

On the one hand, courses are offered for parents who want to take a closer look at parenting issues and are interested in sustainably improving the relationship between child and parents and positively promoting the child's development. On the other hand, schools and educational institutions offer courses that train interested parties to become coaches in parent coaching who want to work as parent counselors in the future. Depending on the training, interested parties without professional experience in a counseling role are admitted, as are those who are already working in counseling in the fields of social work, youth welfare, schools, youth and child psychiatry or youth work who want to delve deeper into this subject matter and learn about new concepts.

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8002 Zürich
IEF Institute for Systemic Development and Training
Our institute offers professionals - tailored to their individual needs - a wide range of further training courses in the areas of systemic psychotherapy (federally recognized), hypnosystemic training and further training, conflict management and mediation, systemic parent coaching and social-pedagogical family support, some of which are CAS courses. We use the different professional backgrounds of the participants as a learning environment and support their individual skills and learning processes.
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