Community Education

I receive requests from community groups, schools, agencies and other organizations to provide public speaking services for the general public. Topics which are frequently the focus of community presentations include the following:

• Improving parent-adolescent communication
• Adolescent development
• Stress management
• Improving self-esteem
• Developing an optimistic outlook on life
• Mood management
• Depression in adolescents
• Issues related to adolescent launching
• Improving marital communication
• Improving academic performance
• Limit-setting with children and teenagers
• Coping with stressful life events
• Overview of the diagnosis & treatment of anxiety disorders
• Overview of the diagnosis & treatment of mood disorders
• Holiday depression
• Coping with grief, bereavement or other major life stressors

For more information about the community education services available through Hawthorn Counseling Group please contact Dr. Jochem at (847) 680-0755 or jdjochem@proton.me.