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.