Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) - Implementation Information
Scientific Rating: 1
"Well-Supported by Research Evidence"
Pre-implementation Assessments to be given to organizations or providers in order to measure organizational or individual readiness:
- There are no pre-implementation assessments to evaluate readiness.
Implementation Tools for the program (e.g., implementation guides or manuals):
- There is a set of materials that can be found at www.pcit.org. These include the basic PCIT protocol, sets of Powerpoint slides, and a protocol for trainers. The basic PCIT protocol on the website is suitable for PCIT applied to children with disruptive behavior problems, foster children, and as a parenting program for child welfare parents.
- A modified PCIT protocol for child welfare parents of older children (7-12) and additional training manual materials, as used in the Oklahoma PCIT abuse trials, are available on request from Beverly Funderburk at Beverly-funderburk@ouhsc.edu.
Fidelity measures:
- The basic clinical fidelity tools are included as part of the standard PCIT protocols which can be found at www.pcit.org. More detailed research measures of therapist competency and fidelity have been developed for studying skill acquisition and fidelity and are available upon request from Beverly-funderburk@ouhsc.edu.
