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Couple CARE for Parents: Our Project Grows and Our Staff Grows With It

Every day, CCP recruiters are at Stony Brook Hospital speaking with parents of newborns about our program. Every week, new families are joining CCP to learn more about caring for their infants and maintaining healthy relationships with their partners. To keep up with the demand, we now have two fourth-year clinical psychology students and one licensed psychologist joining our team. The students, Danielle Provenzano and Ashley Hunt, along with our experienced clinician, Dr. Katherine Casillas, have been recruiting new participants at the hospital and are now preparing to deliver the program themselves. They look forward to getting to know and providing support to the new CCP families.

In other expansion news, the FTRG was recently awarded a five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a randomized controlled trial of Couple CARE for Parents as a partner violence prevention program. Three hundred couples who demonstrate verbal aggression in their relationship and who meet other eligibility requirements will be randomly assigned to either the CCP group or a control group. This study will look at CCP’s effect on variables associated with high risk of partner violence, including coping and stress, couple communication and conflict management, and parenting and relationship expectations. Recruitment for this study is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2008. Check back to see the new information added to our project's webpage.

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