The aim of this round table is to establish and / or to improve a better and profound understanding of how we can support our
young patients and their parental caregivers to overcome schemas (parents) and schema dispositions (
children / teenagers) by means of emotionally - experienced
techniques rather
than cognitive interventions.
PCIT was chosen as the PT program because PCIT: a) has well established efficacy in reducing
young children's EBP (Eisenstadt et al. 1993; Eyberg et al. 2001; Hood and Eyberg 2003; Schuhmann et al. 1998); b) contains all of the treatment components recognized by Kaminski and colleagues» meta - analysis (Kaminski et al. 2008) as yielding the largest effect sizes (i.e., increasing positive parent —
child interactions, promoting consistency and use of time out, and requiring parents to practice new skills with their
child during PT sessions); c) aims to strengthen the parent —
child relationship, which can be accomplished in a brief intervention (Bakermans - Kranenburg et al. 2003); d) is a competency - based model that emphasizes skill acquisition rather
than a fixed set of sessions; and e) includes a unique delivery
technique (i.e., wireless headset for the therapist to coach the parent in vivo during interactions with the
child) similar to an exposure - based approach in which parents observe «in vivo» changes in their
child behavior during sessions.