PCIP
Parent Child Interaction Program
PCIP, in conjunction with Los Angeles Mission College, offers continuing education units to both non-biological parents and biological relatives who provide foster care for children/adolescents in Los Angeles County. The Parent Child Interaction Program promotes an understanding of children who have been separated not only from their parents, but also from their home base: friends, the familiarity of routine, home, school, neighborhood, and sometimes from their cultural connectedness. Our program is designed to educate and support foster parents with positive and effective parenting skills in order to minimize the psychological consequences of loss and to assist children in their care in developing positive coping skills and effective behavior for life long success. The PCIP clinic is staffed by graduate students in the Clinical Psychology Master of Arts program at California State University Northridge and are supervised by a licensed clinical psychologist. Parents participate in an eight week, twenty-four hour psycho educational group in which principles of attachment, creating a positive emotional environment in the home, and behavior change are presented to parents in modules. Parents are strongly urged to practice these principles at home through the completion of homework assignments. PCIP staff who are trained to become family intervention specialists may also work with families in their homes during this time. Family meetings are to assist parents in understanding the material presented in the modules, to foster homework completion and to provide feedback in implementing various parenting practices in their home.
The goals of the PCIP program are:
- To help parents understand the biological and psychological principles of attachment theory and the psychological consequences of separation and loss.
- To present strategies which will create a positive emotional environment in the family.
- To perform a functional assessment of the problematic behaviors of the child and, based on that data, to design an intervention program using the principles of applied behavior analysis.
- To offer parents in PCIP groups a safe place to support one another and exchange resources.
- To train M.A. clinical students in family dynamics, effective parenting skills and applied behavior analysis techniques. Students will also learn teaching skills and group leadership techniques.
Our classes for Spring 2014 (February 12 - April 23) will be held at CSUN located at 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330-8311, Wednesday evenings from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The classes are held in Monterey Hall (2nd Floor), in the Psychology Clinic. This is the brick building on the corner of Zelzah and Nordhoff (you will see the CSUN letter sign located in front of the parking lot on Nordhoff). Please enter campus from Zelzah and Dearborn and park in Parking Lot G3. Parking is $6.00 and will be reimbursed upon your arrival to class. Signs will be posted from parking lot G3 leading to Monterey Hall. Child care will be provided for potty trained children at this location only if you call one week in advance.
Please call Maria Granados at (818) 364-7600 x 7135 or e-mail granadmi@lamission.edu to schedule child care.
Schedule - Spring 2014
- February -
What is Psychosocial Education? Discussion on Mental Illness and Coping.
Instructors: Avishai Zacharia and Michael Petrosyan.
Date: Wednesday February 12, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
Forming Healthy Attachment. Discussion on Child Development and Parenting Styles.
Instructors: Dana Campagna and Avishai Zacharia.
Date: Wednesday February 19, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
Understanding Grieving. Discussion on Resilience and Coping.
Instructors: Dana Campagna and Baldemar Soto.
Date: Wednesday February 26, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
- March -
Charting through Behaviors. Focusing on the Origin of Undesirable Behaviors - ABC Chart.
Instructors: Avishai Zacharia and Michael Petrosyan.
Date: Wednesday March 5, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
How Boredom can Lead to Problem Behavior. Discussion on Teaching New Behaviors.
Instructors: Baldemar Soto and Michael Petrosyan.
Date: Wednesday March 12, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
Family Rules: Written and Unwritten. Discussion on Family Rules.
Instructors: Baldemar Soto and Jeannette Torres.
Date: Wednesday March 19, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
Parenting the Parent. Discussion on Parenting Styles and Behaviors.
Instructors: Jeannette Torres and Baldemar Soto.
Date: Wednesday March 26, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
- April -
Understanding Sibling Relationships and Birth Order. Discussion on Sibling Relationships in Families.
Instructors: Dana Campagna and Avishai Zacharia.
Date: Wednesday April 2, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
The Difference between Apathy and Empathy. Discussion on Mental Illness and Coping.
Instructors: Michael Petrosyan and Jeannette Torres.
Date: Wednesday April 16, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
The Jigsaw-Puzzle Child. Discussion on the varying levels of Development and Self-Esteem.
Instructors: Jeannette Torres and Dana Campagna.
Date: Wednesday April 23, 2014.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: CSUN - Monterrey Hall (2nd Floor), Psychology Clinic. 9125 Zelzah Ave., Northridge, CA 91330.
Renewal Hours: B, D, W, or F-Rate.
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