Name: Anonymous 2018-04-09 14:38
Homework therapists - an amalgam of a traditional tutor and straight-up therapist - provide academic help and emotional support. But the service is not cheap - New York parents generally pay between US$200 and US$600 for regularly scheduled in-person sessions ranging from 50 to 75 minutes.
Homework therapists often have day jobs as clinicians at hospitals, family counselling centres or their own private practices. In the evenings, they work with overwhelmed students to create study guides, do algebra problems, organise binders, smooth out crumpled papers at the bottom of book bags and do "error analyses" when a biology test goes awry. But they also help children address the psychological issues that are holding them back, using common counselling techniques like motivational interviewing and exposure therapy, a strategy sometimes used with victims of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Homework therapists often have day jobs as clinicians at hospitals, family counselling centres or their own private practices. In the evenings, they work with overwhelmed students to create study guides, do algebra problems, organise binders, smooth out crumpled papers at the bottom of book bags and do "error analyses" when a biology test goes awry. But they also help children address the psychological issues that are holding them back, using common counselling techniques like motivational interviewing and exposure therapy, a strategy sometimes used with victims of post-traumatic stress disorder.