Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)

In "The Efficacy of Child Parent Relationship Therapy" (CPRT) the researchers study the benefits of a 10-session therapeutic counseling for children with attachment disruptions and their caregivers where the main goal is to address the emotional needs of parents and children. Secure attachment is a term in psychology that refers to how infants use their caregiver as a secure base from which they explore the environment (King,L., & King, L. 2012). According to this research, studies show that a disruption in caregivers during early development has a relation to children with difficulty with socio-emotional development later on in life. Those who are targeted by this issue are adopted children, they tend to have difficulty developing emotional …show more content…
There were 3-type of instrumentation used to measure the effectiveness of this research: The data collected by raters trained in CPRT who were blinded to the assigned group of the participants, CBCL (Child Behavior Checklist-Parent Version) was used to measure behavioral and emotional problems on a child's social relations as reported by their parents focusing on two categories the externalized and the internalized problems, and MEACI (Measurement of Empathy in Adult-Child Interaction) is used to measure the parents ability to emphatize with their adoptive child with 3 main sub-scales: communication of acceptance, allowing the child self-direction and involvement. The experiment was composed of adoptive parents whom: could identify as adoptive parents, reported attachment concerns, gave consent and were fluent in English. All participants were from a large metropolitan area in southwestern United States consisting of seventy-two participants whom were randomly divided in the experimental or wait-list control group. To gather pretest data the parents and child would meet for a 20-minute play session that was recorded and then they were assigned to a group. Parents on the experimental group learned CCPT (Child Centered Play Therapy) skills which included emphatetic listening, reflection on child's feelings, learning how to read non verbal and verbal behaviors correctly,how to use encouragement, using esteem-building responses, and taught the importance of security and how to establish it through specializing playtimes on a set schedule to give children a sense of security and predictability (Carnes-Holt, K., & Bartton, S. 20104). After the 10-week therapy parents were asked to record another playtime session to be evaluated by the blinded raters. The results

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