Filial Therapy Group
Child - Parent - Relationship Therapy (CPRT)
As a parent do you feel like you’re off track? Do you find yourself shouting at your child more often than laughing? Do you feel you have lost touch with your child or not as close as you’d like? Do you feel frustrated and find yourself saying the same things over and over again with no results? Would you like for your relationship with your child to go back to the “way it used to be”?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, please read on... C-P-R training (also called filial therapy) is a research-based, 8-week parenting course that teaches parents how to play therapeutically with their children. Suitable for children experiencing social, emotional or behavioural problems.
Learn how to:
- Regain control as a parent
- Help your child develop self control
- Effectively discipline & limit inappropriate behaviour
- Understand your child’s emotional needs
- Communicate more effectively with your child
Learn how to:
- Your relationship with your child
- Your child’s behaviour
- Your ability to respond effectively
- Your confidence in your parenting skills
Filial Therapy Group
CHILD - PARENT - RELATIONSHIP THERAPY (CPRT)
Give your children what they need most: YOU
When children have problems, sometimes they don’t have the words to talk about them. Play gives children a way to communicate feelings they don’t understand or can’t express any other way. Play Therapy has been shown to be an effective intervention with children for a variety of behavioural and emotional difficulties. Research has shown that motivated parents can be trained to be as effective as play therapists using play therapy skills with their own children.
Research has shown that CPR trasing can:
- Reduce or eliminate behaviour problems
- Enhance the parent-child relationship
- Develop responsibility and self regulation in children
- Increase children’s self-esteem and self-confidence
- Increase parents’ feelings of warmth for their children and strengthen their bond
- Child-Parent-Relationship Training is an 8 session Therapeutic Parenting Skills Group
- The atmosphere is friendly, accepting and interactive, making it enjoyable and interesting
Some of the things you’ll lean include
- How to help your child open up to you
- Therapeutic limit setting
- Recognising emotional needs and building self-esteem
- Fostering creativity, self-control/regulation and self-responsibility
Therapists running the group
Jackie Richardson
My name is Jackie and I have spent many years providing therapeutic interventions for adults and children. I love working with families, especially children and young people as the kind of therapy I offer can make such a difference! I am a Play Therapist which means I play with children to enable them to express and make sense of their experiences and emotions via a medium that is natural for them. I also offer Systemic Family Therapy where sometimes some, or all of the family are needing someone like me to facilitate talking to each other in a safe way. Sometimes it’s easier to talk to a stranger than those we love, and systemic therapy enables families to start to understand each other differently, open up communication and perhaps then feel differently about their relationships with each other (hopefully for the better!)Play Therapy has been shown to be an effective intervention with children for a variety of behavioural and emotional difficulties. Research has shown that motivated parents can be trained to be as effective as play therapists using play therapy skills with their own children.
Samantha Stephenson
I am an Accredited Play Therapist and DDP Informed Practitioner (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy). I love that play therapy enables children to explore their feelings and experiences through the language they know best, play. Play therapy is child-led; it encourages children to express what they cannot verbalise, provides a space to process and make sense of difficult life experiences, and helps children to find their voice and connect with themselves. I endeavour to offer a supportive, caring and confidential place within the safety of the therapeutic relationship; integral for processing and healing to begin. I strive to see the whole person, taking a systemic view, and not just the difficulties or trauma being faced.
