Workshop Description: This workshop will present the theoretical framework and clinical strategies of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), a manualized, evidence-based treatment for children in the birth-five age range exposed to interpersonal violence, loss of a loved one, intrusive medical procedures, and other traumatic events. CPP efficacy is supported by 5 randomized studies showing significant improvements in child biomarkers, quality of attachment, cognitive performance, PTSD, behavior problems, maternal functioning, and marital satisfaction. This two-generation improvement highlights the importance of a relationship-based approach to the treatment of early childhood mental health problems. Perinatal CPP is an application to pregnancy and the post-partum period that shows effectiveness in reducing maternal depression, PTSD and risk for child abuse in clinical studies.

Speaker Biography: Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D., is Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair in Infant Mental Health, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development at UCSF Department of Psychiatry, and director of the Child Trauma Research Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She directs the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a center of SAMHSA National Child Traumatic Stress Network and is the PI of the Infancy and Early Childhood Mental Health Consortium, a federal grant to create an early childhood mental health workforce in 10 rural counties of Northern California and other states with large rural populations. She is the senior developer of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an evidence-based treatment for traumatized children aged birth-five broadly used nationally and internationally as an evidence-based treatment for traumatized young children and their parents or caregivers. Her research involves treatment outcome studies in pregnancy and with traumatized young children from low-income and under-represented minority groups.