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    It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster not to be found.

    DW Winnicott
     
    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.

    Child and Adolescent Program Admissions/Recruitment

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