Melissa K. Runyon, PhD, is Treatment Services Director of the CARES (Child Abuse Research Education and Service) Institute and a professor of psychiatry at the School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Esther Deblinger, PhD, is Co-founder and Co-director of the CARES (Child Abuse Research Education and Service) Institute and a professor of psychiatry at the School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Combined Parent-Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidence-based intervention and prevention model for child physical abuse aimed at empowering families to develop optimistic outlooks on parenting and strengthen parent-child relationships.