Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
Are you a licensed California Clinician looking to become more effective with your patients? A deeper understanding of child and adolescent development changes the way you understand your patients — at every age.
The Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (CAPP) is a two-year training program in the psychoanalytic understanding of development from the first weeks of infancy through the upheavals of adolescence and emerging adulthood.
CAPP is for licensed Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists looking to add psychoanalytic understanding to their training. Clinicians learn how to better understand the patient who cannot tolerate silence, the one who reenacts the same relational pattern session after session, the adolescent whose “acting out” is developmental work rather than pathology, and the adult clinicians who recognize that the child their patient once was, is still in the room.
Through reading and weekly case presentations by faculty and students, CAPP helps our students to apply psychoanalytic theory to their clinical work. Graduates report that their experience at CAPP gives them more confidence in their understanding of human behavior and enhances their ability to work effectively with their patients, regardless of age.
Classes meet Tuesday mornings, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., online and in person, for two academic years, taught by senior Los Angeles clinicians in active practice. Graduates receive a Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the New Center for Psychoanalysis.
The New Center for Psychoanalysis does not discriminate based on age, race, color, gender/gender identification, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin, medical condition, or disabilities of those who are otherwise qualified for training. This nondiscrimination policy covers actions in the administration of policies, procedures, and practices, including admissions policies, educational policies, and financial aid programs. NCP welcomes and encourages students from diverse backgrounds or those serving diverse populations to take part in its educational programs. The New Center for Psychoanalysis is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.