Listening Ears/Loving Hearts
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

Help your child cope with the stresses of life. Ease your stress
and enjoy a more satisfying bond with your child. PCIT is
appropriate for children from 2 to 7 years.

It helps children who:

  • are aggressive, who hit, throw things and express great
    anger
  • have frequent trantrums
  • are defiant
  • refuse to follow directions
  • cause difficulty in day care or preschool settings
PCIT helps parents by:

  • reducing their child's stressful behaviors
  • creating greater harmony with their child
  • increasing times of enjoyment with their child
  • increasing parent's skills in working with this particular child
"Not only did PCIT treatment gains maintain over 3 to 6 years, children actually continued
to improve lending support to the durability of PCIT treatment effects over time."

-Hood, K.K., & Eyeberg, S.M. (2003). Outcomes of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy:
Mother's reports of maintenance three to six years after treatment. Journal of Clinical and
Adolescent Psychology, 32, 419-429
PCIT is:

  • developed by the University of California at Davis
  • supported by over 30 research studies
  • recommended by the Children's Network of San Bernardino County
  • makes use of the latest technology to help children, parents, and caregivers.
"...absent father families reported greater improvement in child behavior; however,
these familes had a difficult time maintaining treatments gains. At follow-up, involved
father families were able to maintain gains."

-Hood, K.K., & Eyeberg, S.M. (2003). Outcomes of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy:
Mother's reports of maintenance three to six years after treatment. Journal of Clinical
and Adolescent Psychology, 32, 599-605
CCS would like to thank First 5 San Bernardino
for their generous support of our early
childhood program and for enabling us to offer
PCIT to our clients.