Child-Parent Psychotherapy Training Package

Starting July 2019

Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is an evidence-based intervention model for children aged 0-5. Below you'll find the complete detail for this comprehensive training package, including content overview, cost, and registration details. 

**Please note: Prior approval is required before registering for this training. Please see the Registration section below. **

About CPP

Child-Parent Psychotherapy Overview
CPP is an intervention model for children aged 0-5 who have experienced traumatic events and/or are experiencing mental health, attachment, and/or behavioral problems. A central goal is to support and strengthen the caregiver-child relationship as a vehicle for restoring and protecting the child’s mental health. Treatment also focuses on contextual factors that may affect the caregiver-child relationship (e.g. cultural norms and socioeconomic and immigration-related stressors). For children exposed to trauma, caregiver and child are guided over the course of treatment to create a joint narrative of the traumatic event and to identify and address trauma triggers that lead to dysregulated affect and behavior.

Therapeutic sessions include the child and parent or primary caregiver. If clinically indicated, treatment may include multiple caregivers and/or siblings with the format of sessions determined jointly with the caregivers after learning about the needs of different family members during the Foundational Phase of treatment. CPP is listed on the SAMHSA National Registry of Effective Programs and Practices: SAMSA.gov For information about the research on CPP, including the five randomized trials conducted on the model, please visit our website: CPP research 

 

 

About this Training Package

 

CPP Learning Collaborative Objectives

• Through an 18-month long training, participants will gain core CPP knowledge and competencies to enable them to adopt CPP.
• Participating agencies will increase their capacity to provide an evidence-based trauma treatment for children in the birth to six age range.

 

Training Overview and Components

This training package is hosted through Washburn Center for Children's Training Institute.

 

The Learning Collaborative model is the dissemination strategy used by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network to support uptake of best practices. What sets an LC apart from traditional training is the intensive focus on learning-by doing. An LC includes in-person trainings or “learning sessions”, intensive consultation, and peer-to-peer learning within and across organizations. This training meets criteria for an Implementation-Level CPP Course. Participants who complete training will be eligible for the roster of trained CPP clinicians.

 

Initial training dates: July 8-10, 2019. Booster training: January & July 2020 (exact dates TBD).

 

*Note: this CPP Training Package is a rescheduled training, initially scheduled for April 2019.

 

Training components include:

1. Participate in initial core CPP didactic training - 3 days - July 8-10, 2019.
2. Read the CPP manual (see training materials below)
3. Provide CPP to children under age 6 who have experienced at least one trauma (see Training Agreement for specific details)
4. Participate in reflective CPP supervision
5. Participate in ongoing CPP consult calls - twice monthly video-based consultation for 18 months conducted by an endorsed CPP consultant
6. Case presentation - prepare and present at least twice on consult calls
7. Participation in intensive CPP competency building workshops (2 days each, approximately 6 months and 12 months after the initial didactic training)
8. Fidelity monitoring - completion of CPP fidelity instruments and LC evaluation tools
9. Any additional learning collaborative metrics needed for this training

 

Training Time

Participating sites should budget time for the following activities:

• Reading the manuals
• Participation in 7 face-to-face days of training (spread out over the 18-month period)
• Participation in twice monthly hourly case consultation calls
• Presenting on at least two consultation calls (including time to complete a write up)
• Participation in reflective CPP supervision in the agency, ideally weekly but at a minimum twice a month
• Completion of clinical measures, fidelity forms, and evaluation of the training
• Provision of CPP services
• Data collection and learning collaborative metrics

 

CPP Sustainability

Participants who are interested in learning how CPP may be sustained following the initial 18-month Learning Collaborative, may visit our website: https://childparentpsychotherapy.com and learn more about the CPP Agency Mentorship  Model.

 

Training Location

United Health Foundation Training Institute at Washburn Center for Children

1100 Glenwood Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405

 

*Hotels in the area: DoubleTree, Hilton Minneapolis, Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Minneapolis, and The Normandy Inn & Suites.

 

Training Faculty

 

Jane Ellison, LMFT, IMH-E (IV)  Jane R. Ellison, LMFT, IMH-E® is a community leader in early childhood mental health.  She has more than thirty years experience working with young children and their families, including clinical work in private practice, parent education, home visiting, family literacy, child abuse and neglect prevention and domestic violence. Ms. Ellison holds licensure in parent education, early childhood education, and Marriage and Family Therapy, a certificate in infant and early childhood mental health from the University of Minnesota and holds Clinical Level IV Infant Mental Health Endorsement through MACMH-IEC.  Ms. Ellison is the official Minnesota trainer for Child Parent Psychotherapy.

 

Natalie Kendrick, LMFT, has spent the last 14 years serving children and families in the Twin Cities. After completing the Infant and Early Childhood Certificate program at the University of Minnesota, Natalie trained and became certified in Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) in the Fall of 2014. She has trained and supervised over a dozen clinicians in this model and was given the opportunity to lead her team through one of the first CPP Agency Mentorship Program (C.A.M.P) trainings in the United States. Working closely in collaboration with national trainer Chandra Gosh-Ippen and Minnesota State CPP trainer, Jane Ellison, Natalie continues to co-lead a number of community CPP trainings. In her current role as Associate Clinical Director for Early Childhood Programs at Washburn Center for Children, Natalie continues to train, supervise, and consult in effective treatment for young children and families.

 

Requirements

Training Eligibility

• We typically train agency teams rather than individual therapists as we feel that working with young children who have experienced trauma requires the support of a team. Moreover ongoing reflective practice with a supervisor or colleague  is a core part of CPP.
• Any private practitioners applying to a CPP training should form teams committed to supporting each other and meeting at least twice monthly for reflective consultation at least for the duration of the learning collaborative.
• All clinical team members seeking to complete training and be eligible for the CPP roster must be master’s or doctoral-level psychotherapists with a degree in a mental health discipline
• If any participating team members are not yet licensed, they must be supervised by a licensed team member who also participates in the training
• A CPP LC is not considered intensive enough for an intern to learn CPP. Implementation-level training for interns is available through endorsed CPP internships.
• Please ensure that your agency leadership and all members of your team who might be part of the training are aware of the core components and minimum training requirements for a CPP Implementation Level Course. They can do this by visiting our website: information for organization leaders.
• CPP Training Agreement

 

Training Materials

Participants are required to have access to the required materials during the 18-month training period. It is preferable if they can read the manual prior to beginning training. During training, CPP trainers provide participants with electronic links to training handouts and to other free CPP materials, including the fidelity instruments and evaluation tools.

• Required: Child-Parent Psychotherapy Manual

Lieberman, A.F., Ghosh Ippen, C., & Van Horn (2015). Don’t hit my mommy: A manual for Child-Parent Psychotherapy with young children exposed to violence and other trauma, Second Edition. Washington, DC: Zero to Three.

• Strongly Recommended:  Book Describing Conceptual Framework, Intervention Modalities and Case Examples

Lieberman, A.F. & Van Horn, P. (2008). Psychotherapy with infants and young children: Repairing the effects of stress and trauma on early attachment. New York: The Guilford Press.

• Optional: Adaptation of CPP for Traumatic Bereavement

Lieberman, A.F., Compton, N.C., Van Horn, P., Ghosh Ippen, C. (2003).  Losing a parent to death in the early years: Guidelines for the treatment of traumatic bereavement in infancy.  Washington D.C.: Zero to Three Press.

 

Cost and CEUs

 

Training Cost

 

$1600 per person. Cost of training includes:

• 7 full days of training
• catered lunch and breakfast at each training day
• 36 consultation calls with Jane Ellison.

 

If minimum number of trainees is not reached, participants will receive a full refund. 

 

CEUs

Participants who complete the training will receive 45 hours of CEU credit.

 

Registration

Prior approval is required before registering for this training package.

Please complete the survey below to indicate your interest and to acknowledge that you have reviewed and are able to engage in all the training components and that you believe your team members meet eligibility criteria. A member of our team will follow up to complete your registration process.

 

Space is limited! Please fill out the expression of interest form as soon as possible. This form is required prior to registration but does not guarantee a spot.

 

***Please complete this form prior to registration: Expression of Interest Survey

 

Next Steps

We will review your expressions of interest survey and will contact you to verify your eligibility. Once you're approved we'll email you with instructions to register for this amazing training!

 

To register with a check, please click here for our paper registration form.

 

 

Please contact the number below for registration inquiries after July 1st.

 

Questions? Contact TrainingInstitute@washburn.org or 612.767.3383