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INSTITUTES
INSTITUTE #24 8:30 AM FRIDAY • 1:30 PM SATURDAY • SARASOTA 1-2-3
Home-Based Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): Implementing an Evidence-Based
Treatment Within a System of Care
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To describe the core elements of PCIT
2. To employ strategies for the statewide PCIT dissemination and implementation
3. How to combine Home-Based PCIT with wraparound services to produce a customized, evidence-based treatment
within a system of care
4. To determine how cultural factors, particularly those of race, ethnicity, and language are addressed through Home-
Based PCIT
5. To determine ways in which families can shape the system of care to better integrate and improve interventions like
Home-Based PCIT
6. To describe practical steps that communities can take to adopt, improve, or sustain the delivery of evidence-based
mental health services for young children
This Institute will focus on the implementation of an evidence-based practice within a system of care framework based
on the implementation of PCIT. PCIT is an evidence-based mental health treatment for young children (ages 2-7) with
behavioral difficulties and their families. It is a short-term, assessment-driven intervention that helps parents and
children to develop and master a set of skills. Through a live coaching format, parents are taught specific skills, which
help to foster a nurturing and secure relationship with their child while increasing their child’s pro-social behavior and
decreasing negative behavior.
The strategies to be presented are based on an initiative in Delaware entitled: “Delaware’s B.E.S.T. for Young Children
and Their Families.” Through this initiative, PCIT has been disseminated and implemented statewide. Faculty will
highlight strategies for implementation of an evidence-based practice including funding, training, implementation,
consumer experience, data collection, and sustainability.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Overview of PCIT’s theoretical underpinnings, clinical techniques, and modifications to the home-based setting
• Specific techniques to clinically implement and sustain large-scale implementation of an evidence-based treatment
and the challenges inherent in the training and dissemination processes
• The data collection process including the infrastructure needed to collect data and how to collect short- and long-term
outcome data
• Cultural perspectives from a clinician’s and parent’s standpoint highlighting strategies for providing services within a
cultural framework
• A parent’s “journey” from treatment participant to an active driver of system of care
Role-playing activities will help participants learn the power of simple techniques employed in PCIT as well as challenges
associated with training providers. A workgroup structure will allow participants to choose a training experience around
PCIT fundamentals, keys to family-driven care, and system design and evaluation. In addition to hearing a family
member’s experience, participants will meet several other families involved in shaping Delaware’s B.E.S.T. through
video clips. The Institute is designed to inform other communities in their efforts to prepare and adopt evidence-based
treatments in their settings. Faculty includes the perspectives of a trainer, evaluator, clinician, and family member.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Joshua Masse, Ph.D., Clinical Trainer, Delaware’s Division of Prevention and
Behavioral Health Services, Delaware’s Children Department, Newark, DE
Tim Fowles, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Pippa Howard, L.C.S.W., Community Mental Health Clinician, Latin American Community Center, Wilmington, DE
Chanelle Ringgold, Family Member, New Castle, DE
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