What is Child Parent Psychotherapy?
CPP is an evidence-based therapeutic approach developed in the USA. It aims to help infants and young children from birth to age 5 as well as their parents.
Some infants and young children and/or their parents may have encountered traumatic or scary experiences. The bad memories of these experiences can affect their emotions and behaviour; either the child or the parent having problem in managing emotions will get in the way of the parent-child relationship.
The CPP therapist will try to help the parents understand how the past traumatic experiences of themselves and/or their children affect their emotions and behaviour. Through participating in the parent-child play, the CPP therapist helps the parent re-build a safe and secure relationship with the child and reduce stressed emotions and problem behaviour.
FAQs
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Fostering parent-child relationship
Helping parents to provide a sense of security to children
Guiding parents to understand the meaning of child’s behaviour and help children to express their feelings and cope with intense ones
Supporting parents to reflect on how their own past experiences and their feelings towards their child affect the current parent-child interaction
Assisting parents to learn to manage anger or sadness arising from their past experiences so that no harm can be done to the child
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CPP can last from a few sessions to over 20 sessions depending on the complexity of the problem. The therapist will set up the treatment plan with parents after assessment.
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To be qualified as a CPP provider, one has to:
be a mental health professional having clinical experience with children;
receive training in CPP for 18 months under intensive supervision from an overseas accredited CPP trainer.
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Yes, you can find the contacts of local accredited CPP providers from the international roster.