A psychoeducational group for mothers and their 9 and 10 year old daughters, facilitated by Catherine Weigel Foy, LCSW, LMFT of The Family Institute at Northwestern University.

The group is offered for 10 weeks. A free half-hour consultation will be offered to mothers to prepare for the group. For more information regarding schedule and registration, contact Catherine Weigel Foy at 847-733-4300, extension 612 or family-institute@northwestern.edu.

What's Happening to My Sweet Little Girl?
As everyone knows, the adolescent years can be difficult ones. The little girl who used to tell her mother every one of her deepest secrets begins to value her friends' opinions of her more than her family's. She is on the cusp of womanhood, and there are dangers and pitfalls ahead, as well as excitement and joy.

Who better to guide her through this challenging period than her mother who has known and loved her for her entire life?

The Mother-Daughter Connection is designed to prepare both mothers and daughters for the changes beginning during the transition to middle school.

The Connection that Will Last a Lifetime
The Mother-Daughter Connection will help you gain knowledge and build skills to strengthen and maintain loving and open communications during the middle school years and beyond.

Topics to be covered include:

• How to help your daughter foster her self-confidence
  
• Your daughter's shift from placing emphasis on achievement to popularity
• Strategies to help when your daughter faces peer pressure
• The road to good communication
• How to identify risky behavior vs. healthy challenges
• Tools for effective discipline
• How to know when to push hard and when to let go
• How to help your daughter form healthy friendships

Presenter
Catherine Weigel Foy, LCSW, LMFT, has been specializing in mother-daughter issues in therapy for more than ten years, and lectures on this topic throughout the metropolitan Chicago area.

Over the past twenty years, Ms. Weigel Foy has provided clinical expertise to community agencies, outpatient mental health clinics, inpatient psychiatric services, and group private practices.

Location
The Mother-Daughter Connection convenes weekly at The Family Institute's Bette D. Harris Center on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, Illinois.

Arrangements can be made to accommodate participants who live a distance from Evanston, such as downtown Chicago or the western suburbs.

For more information about The Mother-Daughter Connection and to register for an upcoming series, contact Catherine Weigel Foy at 847-733-4300, extension 612 or family-institute@northwestern.edu.