UK Child-Parent Psychotherapy Virtual Learning Collaborative

Summary

Child-Parent Psychotherapy Overview
CPP is an intervention model for children aged 0-5 who have experienced traumatic events and/or are experiencing mental health, attachment, and/or behavioral problems. A central goal is to support and strengthen the caregiver-child relationship as a vehicle for restoring and protecting the child’s mental health. Treatment also focuses on contextual factors that may affect the caregiver-child relationship (e.g. cultural norms and socioeconomic and immigration-related stressors). For children exposed to trauma, caregiver and child are guided over the course of treatment to create a joint narrative of the traumatic event and to identify and address trauma triggers that lead to dysregulated affect and behavior.

Therapeutic sessions include the child and parent or primary caregiver. If clinically indicated, treatment may include multiple caregivers and/or siblings with the format of sessions determined jointly with the caregivers after learning about the needs of diff erent family members during the Foundational Phase of treatment.

For information about the research on CPP, including the five randomized trials conducted on the model, please visit our website: http://childparentpsychotherapy.com/about/research/

Child-Parent Psychotherapy Learning Collaborative Objectives

● Through an 18-month long training, participants will gain core CPP knowledge and competencies to enable them to adopt CPP
● Participating organizations will increase their capacity to provide an evidence-based trauma treatment for children in the birth to six age range

We typically train teams within organizations rather than individual therapists as we feel that working with young children who have experienced trauma requires the support of a team.

Moreover, ongoing reflective practice with a supervisor or colleague is a core part of CPP.

Any private practitioners applying to CPP training should form teams committed to supporting each other and meeting at least twice monthly for reflective consultation at least for the duration of the learning collaborative. Additional consultation and support by Drs Cosgrave and/or Dimmler may be available – please refer to the training team for further discussion.

Free webinar to learn more about the CPP training:
There will be two, 1-hour information sessions off ered before the application deadline. Webinars will provide a description of the model illustrated via video and clinical material from sessions. An overview of the training components will be outlined with time for Q & A for interested parties:

● Wednesday May 20th, 2026, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86874040520?pwd=ZFa8QbQId0sEdWTwAxSjt1gWWqsMtL.1

● Tuesday June 16th, 2026, 7:30pm-8:30pm
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87646873314?pwd=dRLUDnwRb6kJaynXXxauqm7xJ0RUbM.1

Click the ‘job description’ on the left to read all the training details.