Reflective Dawn Counselling
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Child Parent Relationship Therapy
What is Child Parent Relationship Therapy?
Child Parent Relationship Therapy is a structured, supportive group training programme for parents, stepparents and carers.
It is a special training to help strengthen the relationship between a parent and a child by using 30-minute play sessions once a week. Play is important to children because it is the most natural way they communicate. Toys are like words for children and play is their language. Adults talk about their experiences and express what they think and how they feel. Therefore, parents are taught to have special structured 30-minute play sessions with their child using a kit of carefully selected toys in their own home. Parents, you will learn how to respond emphatically to your child's feelings, build your child's self-esteem, help your child learn self-control and self-responsibility, and set therapeutic limits during these special play sessions.
CPRT can help families with young children with the following concerns:
• Blended Family Relational Issues
• Foster Care and Adoption Adjustment
• Divorce Adjustment
• Relationship Problems
• Oppositional Behavior
• Depression
• Family Reunification
• Single Parenting
• Attachment Disruptions
• Abuse/Neglect
For 30 minutes each week, the child is at the centre of the parent's universe. In this special play session, the parent creates an accepting relationship in which a child feel completely safe to express himself through his play - fears, likes, dislikes, wishes, anger, loneliness, joy, or feelings of failure. This is not a typical playtime. It is a special playtime in which the child leads and the parent follows.
In this special relationship there are no:
Reprimands
Put downs
Evaluations
Requirements (to draw pictures a certain way, etc)
Judgements (about the child or his play as being good or bad, right or wrong)
Training is provided to a small group of parents and carers (children do not attend), in 10 weekly sessions of 2 hours each.
The course is delivered through a mixture of presentations, video clips, group discussions, demonstration and skills practice, including discussion and debrief of the play sessions carried out at home.
If you have more than one child, you choose one child as the focus for the training, however, afterwards, of course, the skills you have learnt and indeed the play sessions themselves can then be applied with the other children in your family.
CPRT is an evidence based filial therapy model developed by Sue C. Bratton, Garry L. Landreth, Theresa Kellam and Sandra R. Blanchard in the United States.
What will parents be taught?
You will be taught how to:
identify and respond effectively to your children’s feelings
use reflective listening skills
set effective limits, and
enhance your children’s self esteem.
CPRT is equally suited to enhancing already positive parent-child relationships, enabling parents to support their children through particularly difficult experiences, and helping to build relationships which are new or have been damaged by ill health or life events. The system has proved effective in many different situations.
How is this different from other parenting courses?
I see many children in my practice and in schools and often have parents come to me desperately wanting help and support. I believe parents are ideally placed to manage their own children's emotions and behaviours - indeed most parents would prefer this than trying to access therapeutic services which can be hard to access. When children are angry or anxious, parents can find it hard to know what to do especially when issues have been escalating for months or years. Therapeutic play skills can easily be learned and applied at home.
Unlike many parenting courses, which ask carers to apply the new skills they are learning consistently throughout their parenting, CPRT trains parents to deliver one half-hour play session per week. This makes the programme very manageable for the majority of parents, while the effects of the play and communication in the weekly sessions between parent and child can have extremely positive effects on all aspects of the parent-child relationship.
How can CPRT help my child?
In the special play sessions, you will build a different kind of relationship with your child and your child will discover that she/he is capable, important, understood and accepted as she is. When children experience a play relationship in which they feel accepted, understood, and cared for, they play out many of their problems and, in the process, release tensions, feelings, and burdens. Your child will then feel better about herself/himself and will be able to discover her own strengths and assume greater self-responsibility as she/he takes charge of play situations.
How your child feels about herself/himself will make a significant difference in her/his behaviour. In the special play sessions where you learn to focus on your child rather than your child's problem, your child will begin to react differently because how your child behaves, how she/he thinks, and how she/he performs in school are directly related to how she/he feels about herself/himself. When your child feels better about herself/himself, she/he will behave in more self-enhancing ways rather than self-defeating ways.
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What informaton is stored
During the enquiry process, your name and email address is captured on the contact form. Your phone number is captured on my mobile phone. This information is solely used to return contact as requested.
During the referral process, the following information is collected about you:
- Full names of enquirer, child, parents or carers and other significant family members
- Date of birth
- Address, telephone numbers and email addresses
- GP and school contact details
- Reasons for seeking counselling or therapy
- Family history
- Experiences of school, work, family and social interactions and relevant medical information
- Support networks, strengths and interests
Records of initial meetings, therapy sessions and review meetings including dates, times and a brief overview of content are also stored.
Why this information is stored
The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) define specific legal bases for storing information. Several of these apply to the information which we store about our clients and their families:
- I ask clients and/or parents to consent to us storing and using this information
- I only store information which I need to provide the therapy which you have asked me for
- In some cases, I need to use the information I have collected in order to protect vulnerable children and young people (Safeguarding)
How information is stored and used
Beatrice Norville keeps electronic records which is stored on passcode, pattern or fingerprint protected smartphone. Electronic records are stored on the password protected tablet and is then accessed via password protected software.
Records are kept to help Beatrice Norville in her work with you. They also help to check that I am offering a good quality service and that my work is effective. I keep a brief written record of each session with you and keep any correspondence (for example emails and text messages) sent or received in relation to our work.
Any written records (for example, signed agreements) are stored securely in a locked cabinet.
I will securely dispose of all records 3 years after your therapy ends in line with my Professional Indemnity insurance policy.
- Your address, phone number, or email address may be used to contact you in relation to your therapy. During the referral process, you will be asked to confirm the best ways to contact you, including whether to contact young people directly, parents or carers.
Confidentiality
I will not usually tell anyone anything that happens in therapy unless you/parents and carers explicitly asks for information to be shared. As required by my professional membership and ethical practice, I receive supervision which is also kept confidential.
Clients have the right to share whatever they like from their experience of therapy with anyone they choose. I encourage parents/carers not to ask children what they have done or talked about in therapy.
I offer regular review meeting to parents/carers, and we will discuss these in advance with the child or young person and agree what information I will share.
There are some situations where I may pass on information without a client's agreement. These are:
When I am concerned that a client, child, young person or someone else is at serious risk of harm if I do not pass on information.
When I have information relating to acts or potential acts of terrorism or money laundering - I am legally obliged to report this.
If at all possible, I will discuss my concerns with the client first and come to an agreement about what is best to do. I will tell the client what information I am going to share and who I am going to share it with. If the client is under 18, I will also discuss the situation with parents/careers before sharing information, as long as it is safe to do so.
If I am working with a child or young person in a school setting, I will share this information in accordance with that school's safeguarding policy.
- If I need to share information without the client's or family's consent, I will consult my supervisor before taking action, unless waiting to do this would increase the risk. I will write down what information has been shared and why I breached confidentiality.
Access to records
You have the right to see records that are kept about you.
If you would like to do this, please ask. I will explain anything in a record that is unclear. You have the right to correct any part of a record that you believe is wrong.
Information stored about children belongs to the child, and young people have the right to ask to see their own records. If younger children want to see their records, their parents can request this on their behalf. I then have a legal obligation to consider whether it is in the child's interest to release this information to their parent.
- Parents have the right to ask to see information which is stored about them, for example records of meetings where they were present.
Monitoring and evaluation
Some work may be evaluated to ensure that services delivered are effective, to enable professional growth and improve my practice and to help me plan and develop my service.
- I don't want to ask clients to fill in lots of forms or take time out of your therapy sessions, so sometimes I use a holistic approach to monitoring and evaluation. This means I may record your comments in relation to your experience of therapy and its effects. If using end of therapy comments for marketing purposes, I request your explicit written consent and it is published anonymously to ensure individual clients cannot be identified.
Clients' written and creative art work
In private practice, I provide storage for art and craft work clients create during therapy sessions. At the end of therapy, you can decide whether to take your creation(s) home or whether you would prefer me to destroy it for you.
If I lose contact with a client before the planned end of their therapy, I store the art work for up to 3 months, during which time you can arrange to come and collect it. After 3 months any work which has not been collected will be disposed of.
- Provision of storage of art work in schools is dependent on the available facilities and will be discussed with individual children and young people.