Parent Child Care (PC-CARE)

Parent-Child Care (PC-CARE) is a 6 session dyadic treatment program for families that are interested in improving caregiver-child relationships and are willing to learn new child behavior management strategies. It serves families with children ages 1 to 10 years and a wide range of caregivers can participate. The program is designed for children who have problems with disruptive and/or deviant behaviors, those who may have experienced a traumatic event, and those that may be adjusting to a new home. Each week the caregiver and child attend a 1 hour session in which the provider in with the family, uses a brief child behavior screener to address behaviors in the past week, does a 10 minute didactic of new skills, and then coaches the caregiver for 30 minutes live in the moment to use the new skills during play with the child. At the end of the session the provider assigns “Daily CARE” to the caregiver to use the skills during play with the child for 5 minutes every day.​