Dyadic Tutoring:
Students today confront an unprecedented level of expectation and distraction. This has contributed to making 21st-century education an extraordinarily complex affair, with students experiencing high levels of stress, mental illness and prescription use (and abuse). In attempting to manage their way through, many children's overall well-being is compromised.
Dyadic Tutoring works to transform these challenges into opportunities. A practice and approach whose time has come, Dyadic Tutoring combines an experienced educator's understanding of class materials with a clinician's skill and knowledge of mental health. By creating (or re-creating) the conditions that promote social-emotional development and psychological balance - coupled with the view of life-long-learning and mental well-being as summa bona (highest goods) - Dyadic Tutoring works by moving students beyond trying to survive, into students who know how to thrive.
Dyadic Tutoring directly develops an array of attributes/skills including:
- Executive functioning
- Mindfulness/Centered awareness
- Social-emotional development
- Critical thinking
- Emotional intelligence
- Creativity/Love of learning
Dyadic Tutoring addresses the following areas of mental health (when applicable):
- Mood disorders (depression, bi-polari)
- Anxiety
- Mild learning disabilities (reading, writing, cognition)
- ADD/ADHD
- Personality disorders (borderline, etc.)
- Lifestyle factors (sleep, hygiene, diet, exercise)
