- Eileen Paris and Tom Paris created The Parenting Process
out of personal necessity. Divorced after their son was only one year old,
Tom and Eileen, devastated and disillusioned, knew they had to keep the
promise they had made to themselves and to each other years before: to
maintain an intimate relationship with their son. As therapists, Tom and
Eileen had resources other divorcing parents didn't. They drew on existing
developmental psychology, emerging infant research, and object relation
theories to develop The Parenting Process and turn it into a method
parents and other therapists can apply every day.
About the instructors
- Both Eileen and Tom are Ph.Ds and licensed marriage,
family and child counselors in California. The Parenting Process
is the culmination of their combined experience as parents, counselors
and teachers who have been listening to the needs of parents and children
for more than 20 years.
- In addition to their private psychotherapy practices,
their collective experience includes working as a preschool teacher, as
director of parent education for the Los Angeles Family School, as consultant
for Head Start, as founding member of the Los Angeles Alternatives to Violence,
and as a drug and alcohol counselor.
- For more than a decade they have trained parents, teachers
and counselors, and given numerous presentations and seminars to mental
health professionals and educators around the world.
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