2011 One-Day Workshop in Jerusalem

Child-Parent Psychotherapy with Young Traumatized Children and Their Families

June 19, 2011

At Herzog Hospital's Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma (ICTP) in Jerusalem

This is a training program sponsored by the International Collaborative on Childhood Trauma, a partnership of the ICTP and Jewish Family and Children's Services' Child Trauma Training Institute of JFCS' Parents Place. The program is open to the public.

The workshop will provide an introduction to Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an empirically supported and relationship-based model of treatment for children birth through 5 years and their families. Developed at the University of California, San Francisco's  Child Trauma Research Program, the CPP model incorporates developmental, attachment, and cultural lenses in its approach. We address the concept of the stress-trauma continuum, its application in CPP, and present strategies and interventions for working with families. Didactic material and case examples are presented to: 

  • Understand the stress-trauma continuum
  • Promote a secure child-parent relationship
  • Change mental representations in the child-parent relationship
  • Address child behavioral issues
  • Make use of countertransference

The presenters are:

Lesley Sternin, MSW, LCSW, director of the Child Trauma Research Institute (CTI) at JFCS' Parents Place

Amy Weiss, MS, MFT, director of Parents Place, JFCS' family resource center in San Francisco