Program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

First Year

• Comparative theories of child development: normalcy and pathology;
• Assessment;
• Beginning work with the child and family;
• Setting up the playroom;
• Collateral work with schools;
• Theory of play and theory of mind;
• Conflict and trauma;
• Transference, counter-transference, and enactments;
• Ongoing and changing therapeutic goals;
• Communication and interpretation through play, symbolization and words.

Second Year

• Technique;
• Conceptualizing the spectrum of childhood and adolescent disorders;
• Integrating different psychoanalytic approaches to technique;
• Ongoing Clinical Seminar: Rotation of cases focusing on issues of treatment for various diagnostic categories.

Third Year

Special topics, including:

• Working with under three's and parent-infant dyads;
• Work with parents;
• Therapy with deprived and abused children and adolescents;
• Mourning and termination;
• Divorce and child custody;
• Psycho-pharmacology;
• ADD, ADHD, and LD;
• Transference, regression. and projective identification in the work of Klein and Winnicott;
• Ongoing Clinical Seminar: Focus on one or two cases.

For more detail about this curriculum and fuller descriptions of each course, please click here to download the IPTAR Bulletin.