The assessment process is divided into 4 phases. The first phase encompasses a comprehensive assessment of the parents and significant collaterals. Prior to the first scheduled appointment, the parents are provided an application form that includes pertinent data and significant contacts that may be important for information gathering relevant to the child's development and growth.

During the first day of assessment, the second phase, the parents are interviewed by specialized counselors to ascertain social, psychological, psychiatric, interpersonal, school, etc. information and levels of functioning. Additionally, specialized assessment tools are utilized and designed for this purpose.

While the parents are being interviewed by specialized counselors, the child development team interviews and assesses the child. During this phase, specialized assessment tools are utilized and designed for this purpose. The interview focuses on identifying and understanding the misbehaviors, and recognizing the patterns of such behaviors. It is essential that during this phase, to differentially diagnose behaviors from symptoms. The difference is essential in the remediation and removal of target behaviors that are bothersome to parents and society from those symptoms that are emotionally harming the child.

The third phase consists of our specialized counselors interviewing and observing the child with the parents. This phase is essential to determine the interpersonal interactions between the parents as well as between parent and child. The individual verbal and non-verbal communications between the parents and parent and child create the impetus for a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics for ineffective dysfunctional parenting from effective powerful functioning parenting.

The fourth phase involves the treatment team and the parents. This phase concludes the assessment process and provides the parents an opportunity to discuss the target behaviors, patterns of ineffective child rearing and corrective effective child rearing for their child. A comprehensive written report will be forwarded to the parents within 2 weeks of the forth phase.

The treatment team process is rarely, if at all seen in today's therapeutic milieu with modern day counselors or psychotherapists. HI utilizes past effective therapeutic tools that are virtually non-existent in current professional practices because of restrictive economic prohibitions and clinical expertise in the child development field.