Child-Parent Relationship Therapy
Program: Individual or Group Filial Therapy
Individual Clients -
50-minute sessions from $185.00 per session.
- pay as you go
(individualized number of sessions ranging from 10 to 20 per program)
Groups 4-8 participants
(or 6-10 including couples)
2 hours - 10 sessions totalling 20 hours
$75.00 p/per or $95.00 p/couple
Or
4.5 hours - 5 sessions totalling 22.5 hours (including 30 min lunch break)
$285.00 p/per 4.5-hour session or
$385.00 p/couple 4.5-hour session
PLEASE CONTACT US DIRECTLY IF YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A REDUCED FEE OR A REBATE FOR PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE (MEDIBANK ONLY)
NDIS Plan or Self-managed clients; individual or group sessions are covered under "CORE - Therapeutic Supports" and then "Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living" subject to a treatment plan.
What is Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)?
CPRT is all about the relationship and works to address children’s behavioural problems through strengthening the relationship between a parent and a child. Parents of children from 2-10 yo attend individual/couple or group weekly sessions and then hold weekly 30-minute special play times with their children at home. This program is suitable for most children and beneficial for typically developing and children on the spectrum or with most developmental issues and is approved by NDIS.
Benefit
For the Child:
Will help with anxiety, depression, anger, sadness, behavioural issues, regulating emotions, following directions, building self-esteem, and becoming self-reflective and emphatic.
For the Parent:
Will help with parenting frustrations that resort to yelling and punishment, responding calmly, connecting and setting useful boundaries and limits.
For the Child-Parent Relationship:
Will help in repairing/strengthening the relationship with the child, build deeper connection and easy and joyful communication improving the entire household environment.
More Affordable than Individual Child Therapy:
The cost of CPRT is usually a considerably smaller fraction of how much the individual therapy can sum up. It's easier to budget knowing the exact amount and that the play sessions that you will do with your child are unlimited and free of cost. You are skilled up for the rest of your life to resume play sessions with your child as they may need up to 12 years old and revisit your new skills with your grandchildren making it an inter-generational intervention.
CPRT vs other parenting programs
You will be shown how to be therapeutic with your child, just the way it happens in therapy sessions with a professional therapist. It's different from other parenting models; it's less overwhelming and deductive and more relaxed and personal. You are not expected to change everything you do, but how to utilise new knowledge in weekly 30-minute play sessions with your child. CPRT, unlike other parenting programs like Triple P and 123 Magic, is not as heavily marketed, but has been extensively researched and has proven great outcomes.
