Bay Area Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

Bay Area Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

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Proven effective treatment approach for families with preschool and school aged children Bay Area Parent-Child Interaction Therapy • How it Works • We Focus on helping families to thrive! • When to Seek Help • HOW DOES PCIT WORK? • DEVELOPMENT OF PCIT • PCIT TECHNIQUES • HOW CAN PCIT HELP? Proven effective treatment approach for families with preschool and school aged children When families are thriving, children bring joy and deeper meaning to life. They help to remind us to stop and pay attention to the present moment and to enjoy the simple pleasures in the world. They may be a reminder for us of more carefree times in our own lives. Challenges will rise and fall while families continue to grow and develop together. At times families can become disrupted from a naturally supportive and adaptive state. They may find their loving moments being replaced by increasing numbers of frustrating battles. Parents can find themselves in a place where they love their children, but they just don’t enjoy them as they had envisioned. Parents can feel as though they are grasping at straws by reading different parenting books, and trying different strategies to varying success, but continue to see the quality of their relationship spiral. Children don’t come with a manual but our program comes with a real-time coach in your ear to help you navigate parenting and ways to support your unique child. If some of what is written here resonates with you, it’s time to get support. PCIT has worked traditionally by the clinician coaching you from behind a one-way mirror through a specialized earphone, giving you moment-by-moment support as you engage in play therapy with… PCIT was originally developed by Sheila Eyberg in the early 1970s while she completed her postdoctoral residency in pediatric psychology. Dr. Eyberg built this approach on a foundation of… In the first phase of treatment caregivers learn play therapy skills and receive real-time support as they, together with [Google Places type: medical clinic]