If you decide to visit a child psychologist with your child, you need to correctly explain to your son or daughter what this is for and how the doctor will help solve the problem. It is important to choose words so as not to scare or offend a little person. How to convince a child to visit a psychologist. You cannot tell children that they will be examined, tested, or corrected. These words a priori make the child think that everything he does is bad and wrong. With such an explanation, parents will only cause negativity, denial, resistance, and if you then begin to insist and force, then your son or daughter will enter the psychologist’s office with a persistent feeling of fear. Start with a story about the work of a specialist. Explain to your child that this is a doctor who will teach you how to cope with different emotions, bad moods, and help you overcome difficulties in communicating with peers and classmates. To prepare and calm your child, show him clearly how sessions with a psychologist go. We can say that communicating with a doctor is very similar to an interview, but only without a camera and spectators. Find suitable videos on the Internet, and then come up with a skit and play the roles of a doctor and a patient (suitable only for young children from 3 to 6-8 years old). At an older age, in children 10-16 years old, a psychologist is associated with a psychiatrist who treats mental illness. Not every teenager will decide to go to a psychotherapist voluntarily, because they are afraid of publicity. To convince a girl or boy, tell them that the psychologist takes a neutral position and does not support either the parents or the child. He observes, analyzes relationships and offers effective solutions to identified problems. It is important to explain to the teenager that only healthy people are patients of the psychologist. Recommendations for parents These recommendations will help you: 1. Don't make something out of the ordinary out of the event. If you are nervous, going to the psychologist’s office as if going to the boss’s office, worrying about how your son or daughter looks, you will most likely provoke anxiety in the child.2. Be considerate of children's feelings. If your daughter or son is seriously worried or afraid about going to a psychologist, it is better to reschedule the visit, but for the near future.3. Don't deceive your child - don't allow surprises when you go shopping and instead end up at the doctor's office. Talk about this in advance so that the baby understands and accepts the fact.4. Motivate your child. For example, invite him to go to a cafe after the session and order his favorite dishes.5. Do not devalue the work of a psychologist. There is no need to tell your child that you just go, sit for a while and everything will be fine. Take your visit to the doctor quite seriously, because you are going to solve a specific problem that worries you and prevents your son or daughter from developing. If you understand the very essence of child psychology, then a psychologist is needed not so much by the child as by his parents, so be prepared for the fact that you will also fully participate in therapy. Good luck in therapy with a child psychologist!