Parenting Group – Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)
Now registering for Winter 2026 Session. (Session starts Thursday nights, mid-January)
Register by December 15, 2025 for a free gift!
Limited Babysitting Available! Please indicate your interest on the Sign up form below.
Investment: 2 payments of $349.50. This includes 15 hours of CPRT with two therapists, class manuals, and consultation as needed between classes.
Child Parent Relationship Therapy
When children have problems, sometimes they don’t have the words to talk about them. Play gives children a way to communicate feelings they don’t understand or can’t express any other way.
Play therapy has been shown to be an effective intervention with children for a variety of behavioral and emotional difficulties. Research has shown that motivated parents can be trained to be as effective as play therapists using play therapy skills with their own children, with as little as 15 hours of Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT).
Strength Forward Counseling is partnering with Perseverance Counseling to offer a course on CPRT.
Research has shown that Child-Parent-Relationship Therapy can:
- Reduce or eliminate behavior problems
- Enhance the parent-child relationship and the marital relationship
- Develop responsibility and self-control in children
- Increase children’s self-esteem and self-confidence
- Increase parents’ feelings of warmth for their children
Child Parent Relationship Therapy is a 10-Session, 1.5 hours/week Therapeutic Parenting Skills Group. The group meets in Strength Forward’s therapeutic space in Clayton. The atmosphere is friendly and accepting and the training interactive, making it enjoyable and interesting.
Some of the things you will learn include:
- How to help your child open up to you
- Therapeutic limit setting
- Recognizing emotional needs and building self-esteem
- Fostering creativity, self-control, and self-responsibility