ABSTRACT
Ch 4 Components in Facilitating the Process of CPRT 47
CHAPTER 4
The CPRT process is characterized by two key components: a didactic component and a group process component in the context of a safe, reassuring, supportive, nonthreatening environment that encourages parents to explore feelings, attitudes, and perceptions about themselves, their children, and parenting. This safe, accepting environment also facilitates risk taking that leads to behavioral change. In her ethnographic study of the process of the Landreth 10-session CPRT filial therapy model, Lahti (1992) concluded that the careful, skilled balancing of the didactic element of filial therapy with a group process/therapy element is a unique aspect of filial therapy’s nature and may be the primary key to the manner in which filial therapy effectively facilitates change.
