PCIT

PCIT is an empirically-supported treatment for young children with behavioral difficulties. PCIT focuses on decreasing negative behaviors and improving the quality of the parent-child relationship. In PCIT, parents are taught specialized skills to establish a nurturing and secure relationship with their child while increasing their child’s positive social skills and decreasing negative behaviors.

Target Population:

• Children ages 2-7 and their caregivers
• Children with behavioral problems
• Acting out and disruptive behavior in school
• Aggression towards parents, siblings, and/or other children in the home
• Sassing back to their parents
• Refusing to follow directions
• Frequent temper tantrums
• Swearing
• Defiance
• Oppositional behaviors
• Children who have experienced trauma
• Perpetrators of abuse / neglect and protective parents

Benefits:

• Children decrease disruptive behaviors, increase listening skills and positive social skills
• Increase positive parenting skills
• Lasting effectiveness of treatment
• Reduces reoccurrence of child abuse more significantly for parents who have successfully completed PCIT versus parents who have not completed the program.