Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP): An Evidence-Based Treatment for Young Children (CS)

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Childhood is a time when children’s central nervous system is developing at rates that never again will occur in their lives. Experience shapes a child’s brain and stress response systems. Learning self-regulation is a developmental task of early childhood and infants and young children attain social and developmental tasks in context of relationships. When infants and young children are exposed to trauma, it impacts a child’s cognitive, social and emotional development. Especially impacted is a child’s capacity to regulate their own emotions. Children exposed to trauma are often left with sense of being unprotected and not worthy of protection, which causes disruptions of internal working model of the self and the caregivers. This workshop will assist students in developing an understanding of how trauma impacts cognitive, social and emotional development of a child when exposed to trauma. It will provide an overview of Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an evidenced based treatment for children, birth to five, exposed to trauma.