Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT)
Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT; Landreth, 1991, 2002, 2012, 2023) is a developmentally responsive, play-based mental health intervention for young children ages 3 to 10 who are experiencing social, emotional, behavioral and relational disorders. CCPT utilizes play, the natural language of children, and the therapeutic relationship to provide a safe, consistent therapeutic environment in which a child can experience full acceptance, empathy, and understanding from the therapist and process inner experiences and feelings through play and symbols.
In CCPT, a child’s experience within the therapeutic relationship is the factor that is most healing and meaningful in creating lasting, positive change. The goal of CCPT is to unleash the child’s potential to move toward integration and self-enhancing ways of being. Child outcomes following CCPT include decreased symptomatic behaviors and improvement in overall functioning.
Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)
Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT, Landreth, 1991; Landreth & Bratton, 2006, 2020) is a play-based treatment program for young children presenting with behavioral, emotional, social, and attachment disorders. At the heart of CPRT is the premise that a secure parent-child relationship is the essential factor for children’s well-being. In a supportive group environment, parents learn skills to respond more effectively to their children’s emotional and behavioral needs. In turn, children learn that they can count on their parents to reliably and consistently meet their needs for love, acceptance, safety, and security.
Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR, Shapiro, 1989, 2007, 2018) is a type of psychotherapy that helps people to heal from symptoms and emotional distress caused by disturbing life experiences. A trained therapist helps you to reprocess disturbing memories, to help resolve the stress and symptoms associated with an event. This trained therapist uses Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) while thinking of this event or memory, utilizing eye-movements, tapping, walking, and yes, even playing. EMDR gives the child full control of when to start and stop this type of therapy modality.
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