Curriculum: Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
First Year:
Overview of Working with Children
- Beginning Treatment
- Assessment and Treatment Planning with Child and Parents
- Therapeutic Alliance with the Child
Infancy: Psychoanalytic Theory of Development from Birth to 3 Year
- Pregnancy
- Attachment
- Emergent Self
- Infant Observation
Theory and Technique of Play
- Use of Fantasy Play & Enactments
- Transference,Counter-Transference
- Dreams, Drawings, Children’s Books
Early Childhood Development: 3 to 6 Years
- The Oedipal Phase
- Affect Regulation
- Mechanisms of Defense
Failures in Attachment
- Working with Schools
- Attachment Theory
- Problems of Attachment
- Immigrant Child
- Impoverished Child
- Child of Divorce
- Childhood Trauma
Early Experiences of Loss and the Development of Language
Childhood Trauma
Middle Childhood
- Demands of School
- Socialization
- The Effects of Technoculture
- Development in Children’s Literature
Development of Children's Literature
Second Year:
Adolescence through Emerging Adulthood
- Disorders of Adolescence – Part I
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Self-Mutilation
- Substance Abuse
- Puberty through Adolescence – Part II
Case Conference
- Students learn to summarize and present treatment cases
Analysis of the Roots of Childhood Disorders
- The Developmental Line of Human Feeding
- Eating Disorders
- Neurobiology and Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Sexuality/Gender Identity/LGBT
- Psychoanalytic Theories of Development
- The Asperger’s Child in Treatment
- Mourning & Melancholia
- Freud's Contributions
Working with Parents
- Parent Loss
- Divorce
- Single Parent
- Step-Parent/Adoptive Parent/Grandparents/Foster Parent
Developmental Psychopathology
- Anxiety Disorders
- Impulse Disorders, Tic Disorder
- ADHD
- Mood Disorders
- Aggression and Depression
Logistics of Setting up a Private Practice
- Treatment Contracts, Fees