The Role of Parents in Stuttering Treatment from a Cognitive Therapy Perspective

Ali Biggart, Frances Cook and Jane Fry

This seminar will present relevant theory about the role of parents in therapy with children who stutter from a Cognitive Therapy perspective (Beck, 1976). It is proposed that there is a relationship between children’s and their parents’ thoughts, feelings and behavioural responses to stuttering. Clinical examples will be used to demonstrate this inter-relationship. The process of developing a shared understanding of these dynamics with families, and of negotiating changes in the management of stuttering will be explored.