Play with your Child - Improve the Relationship Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

1. Play with your Child - Improve the Relationship
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Do You:
 Worry about seeing your child make a scene in public?
 Feel frustrated or overwhelmed with your child?
 Feel tired or helpless to change your child’s behavior?
 Nag, beg, or plead with your child?
 End up giving in to avoid a tantrum?
 Want to be a better parent?
Does Your Child:
 Scream and throw tantrums?
 Whine a lot?
 Talk back?
 Act aggressively?
 Get easily frustrated?
 Refuse to follow rules?
PCIT Works
Through specialized coaching sessions with a qualified therapist, parents will
learn specific skills to enhance the quality of their relationship with their
children while increasing their children's cooperative behavior and decreasing
their children's negative behaviors.
FREE services are available to families who either live in or receive childcare
or pediatric care in Central, East, and North Inland Regions.
Parents will need make time to practice skills with their child 5 minutes a day
in order for treatment to be effective.
Call Home Start at (619) 692-0727 x 118 for more information.
Home Start, Inc.
5005 Texas St., Suite 203
San Diego, CA, 92108

2. CHAT QUALIFICATION CATEGORIES
16. Table 5: Types of Victimization – For each CHAT Program client count each type of
victimization reported. A CHAT Program client may have more than one type of
victimization. If new types of victimization are discovered in subsequent reporting
periods, they may be counted. (When tracking types of abuse, the date it is reported may
be helpful). Please see the following definitions of abuse and neglect:
a. Physical Abuse
Refers to a non-accidental act resulting in physical injury. These acts include
assault and battery, burning, biting, cutting, poking, twisting limbs, punching,
hitting, shaking, and throwing the child.
b. Sexual Abuse
Refers to sexual assault, including but not limited to, any sexual contact, intrusion,
penetration, intentional touching, fondling or other sexual conduct affecting the
genitals or intimate parts of a child for purposes of sexual arousal or gratification of
the perpetrator.
c. Emotional
Refers to acts or omissions (deprivations) by the parents and/or caregivers causing
serious cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders. It includes, but is not limited to,
using extreme or bizarre forms of punishment, torture, verbal assaults such as
habitual humiliation, screaming, threatening, blaming, berating, terrorizing,
rejecting, using sarcasm, and demeaning the child.
d. Neglect
Refers to the failure of a parent or caregiver to provide adequate food, clothing,
shelter, medical care, or supervision to the child; physical injury does not need to
have occurred. Neglect may also include the failure of a person having the care or
custody of a child to protect the child from severe malnutrition or medically
diagnosed non-organic failure to thrive. It includes those situations of neglect
where the parent or caregiver willfully causes, or permits the child or health of the
child to be endangered by depriving the child of adequate food, clothing, shelter, or
medical care.
e. Parental Substance Abuse
Refers to the parent(s) or caretaker’s overindulgence or dependence on a drug or
other chemical which leads to effects that are detrimental to the child’s welfare.
f. Child Abduction
Refers to abduction by a family or non-family member who, not having a right to
custody, maliciously takes, entices away, keeps, withholds, or conceals a child with
the intent to detain or conceal the child from a lawful custodian or a person of a
right to visitation.

3. g. Domestic Violence
Refers to abuse intentionally or recklessly causing or attempting to cause bodily
injury, or placing another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent serious
bodily injury to himself or herself, or another committed against an adult or a minor
who is a spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or person with whom the suspect
has had a child or is having or has had a dating or engagement relationship.
h. Witnessing Crime/Violence in the Community
Refers to children who have been victimized by witnessing violence in a
neighborhood, school, and or community (for example, witnessing a homicide)
which causes the child victim harm (emotional, physical, etc.) as a result of the
commission of the crime committed. (Please note: it is not necessary for an arrest
to be made for the act(s) of violence or crime(s) committed, to qualify as a crime).
Hate crimes are also included as defined under the Hate Crime Statistics Act of
1990 as crimes manifesting evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual
orientation, or ethnicity, including assault and battery, intimidation, arson, and
destruction, damage or vandalism of property.
f. Bullying per California Education Code 48900 (r)
Bullying is defined per California Education Code 48900 (r); “any severe or
pervasive physical or verbal act or conduct, including communications made in
writing or by means of an electronic act, and including one or more acts committed
by pupil or group of pupils”. “Electronic act” is also defined per the California
Education Code 48900 (r) as the creation and transmission originated on or off the
school site, by means of an electronic device, including, but not limited to, a
telephone, wireless telephone, or other wireless communication device, computer,
or pager, or a communication. (For further information on communications
qualifying as an electronic act, please refer to California Education Code 48900 (r).

4. Juegue con su hijo – Mejore su relación
Fortaleciendo la Relación Familiar (PCIT)
Usted:
 ¿Le preocupa que su hijo haga una escena en público?
 ¿Se siente frustrado o agobiado con su hijo?
 ¿Se siente cansado o impotente con el comportamiento de su hijo?
 ¿Escucha siempre quejas, le pide o alega constantemente con él?
 ¿Termina dándose por vencido para que su hijo no haga un berrinche?
 ¿Desea ser un mejor padre?
Su hijo:
 ¿Grita y hace berrinches?
 ¿No quiere cooperar?
 ¿Se queja constantemente?
 ¿No comparte?
 ¿Es contestón?
 ¿No sigue las reglas?
Fortaleciendo la Relación Familiar (PCIT) funciona!
Con sesiones de entrenamiento especializadas con un terapeuta calificado, los
padres aprenderán habilidades específicas para mejorar la calidad de su relación
con sus niños, mismo que aumentan el comportamiento cooperativo de sus
niños y disminuyen los comportamientos negativos.
Los servicios están disponibles gratuitamente para las familias que viven o
reciben servicios de guardería o de cuidado pediátrico en las Regiones del Valle
Norte, Central y Este del Condado de San Diego.
El tratamiento requiere que los padres pongan en práctica las aptitudes que
están aprendiendo en cada sesión 5 minutos al día.
Llame al (619) 692-0727 x 118 para inscribirse en los servicios.
Home Start, Inc.
5005 Texas St., Suite 203
San Diego, CA, 92108
Los servicios son otorgados a
través de los fondos de la
Comisión de los Primeros 5.