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This handbook examines clinical advancements in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), an evidence-based treatment developed for early childhood behavioral challenges. It addresses clinical considerations for PCIT clinicians with common presenting concerns as well as special populations. In addition, the handbook provides prepared resources and clinical supports that can be readily incorporated into PCIT practice and explores the robust advances in PCIT service delivery. Chapter authors discuss orienting considerations for practicing clinicians as well as provide detailed case illustrations and an array of clinician resources (e.g., clinical scripts, handouts, videos). In addition, chapters offer a brief research summary of the topic area as well as key clinical takeaways and recommendations. The handbook examines advancements in PCIT agency dissemination and setups and provides documentation and solutions for dissemination challenges, such as challenges related to technology and space.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Current fundamentals of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.
- Case study illustrations of PCIT for special populations, including selective mutism, autism, anxiety, ADHD, and problematic sexualized behaviors.
- Expanding the reach of PCIT to toddlers and school-aged children.
- Specific clinical suggestions for individualizing PCIT on the basis of cultural considerations.
- Delivering PCIT through telehealth.
- Innovative tools for engaging caregivers in PCIT.
- Agency-level PCIT considerations and supports.
Clinical Handbook of Advancements in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy is a must-have resource for clinicians, practitioners, and mental health, family, and other related therapists as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in the fields of developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical social work, pediatrics, family studies, public health, and all related disciplines.
About the author
Ashley Tempel Scudder, Ph.D., is a research scientist at the Partnerships in Prevention Sciences Institute at Iowa State University. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and a PCIT International-certified regional trainer who lives outside of Philadelphia. Her clinical and research interests are focused on increasing access to evidence-based treatments, such as PCIT for children in the communities in which they live. Her current research explores adapting and testing PCIT with novel populations and settings, fostering community-resilience through a sustainable, multicomponent delivery model of PCIT and TCIT in rural communities, and developing and testing effectiveness of clinician training and implementation approaches. She has been providing training and clinical consultation to community based PCIT clinicians for the past 10 years and has now trained more than 300 hundred PCIT clinicians across the US. Dr. Scudder currently serves on the PCIT International Task Force on Policy and Advocacy.
Toni Hembree-Kigin, Ph.D., is a consultant and independent practitioner with Early Childhood Mental Health Services in Chandler, Arizona. Dr. Hembree-Kigin specializes in the treatment of young children with emotional dysregulation and disruptive behavior problems. Before entering independent practice, she was on the Clinical Child Psychology faculty of the University of Alabama where she co-directed the Child and Family Research Clinic. Dr. Hembree-Kigin is the co-author of Parent Child Interaction Therapy, First and Second Editions, Mental Health Interventions for Preschool Children, and Short-Term Play Therapy for Disruptive Children.
Cheryl B. McNeil, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida, after a 28-year career at West Virginia University. Dr. McNeil obtained her Ph.D. in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at UF under the mentorship of Dr. Sheila Eyberg and is excited to be conducting research at her alma mater.Dr. McNeil has co-authored many books (e.g., Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Second Edition, PCIT-Toddler, Time-out in Child Behavior Management, Handbook of PCIT for Children with ASD, Short-Term Play Therapy for Disruptive Children), a continuing education package (Working with Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Children), a classroom management program (The Tough Class Discipline Kit), and a Psychotherapy DVD for the American Psychological Association (Parent-Child Interaction Therapy). She has published approximately 200 research articles and chapters examining the efficacy of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Teacher-Child Interaction Training across a variety of settings and populations. Dr. McNeil is a Global Trainer for PCIT International and has disseminated PCIT to agencies and therapists in many states and countries.
Summary
This handbook examines clinical advancements in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), an evidence-based treatment developed for early childhood behavioral challenges. It addresses clinical considerations for PCIT clinicians with common presenting concerns as well as special populations. In addition, the handbook provides prepared resources and clinical supports that can be readily incorporated into PCIT practice and explores the robust advances in PCIT service delivery. Chapter authors discuss orienting considerations for practicing clinicians as well as provide detailed case illustrations and an array of clinician resources (e.g., clinical scripts, handouts, videos). In addition, chapters offer a brief research summary of the topic area as well as key clinical takeaways and recommendations. The handbook examines advancements in PCIT agency dissemination and setups and provides documentation and solutions for dissemination challenges, such as challenges related to technology and space.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Current fundamentals of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.
- Case study illustrations of PCIT for special populations, including selective mutism, autism, anxiety, ADHD, and problematic sexualized behaviors.
- Expanding the reach of PCIT to toddlers and school-aged children.
- Specific clinical suggestions for individualizing PCIT on the basis of cultural considerations.
- Delivering PCIT through telehealth.
- Innovative tools for engaging caregivers in PCIT.
- Agency-level PCIT considerations and supports.
Clinical Handbook of Advancements in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy is a must-have resource for clinicians, practitioners, and mental health, family, and other related therapists as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in the fields of developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical social work, pediatrics, family studies, public health, and all related disciplines.
