Curriculum: Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program
Monthly Child Study Group that focuses on one topic for the entire year (hybrid with in-person and Zoom). The focus of 2025-2026 is "Environmental Disasters on Infants, Children, and Adolescents," inspired by the Greater Los Angeles fires and various phenomena colliding with our world. This curriculum integrates:
- Early Contributions to Child Analysis (A. Freud, M. Klein, D. Winnicott, and others)
- Trasference/Countertransference Issues
- Work with Parents
- Play and Technique with Children and Adolescents
- Contemporary Topics in Child and Adolescent Analysis
- Clinical Writing
Bimonthly Case Conference on Zoom that addresses case development, clinical assessment, theoretical and technical psychoanalytic approaches, and work with parents. Supervised clinical work with cases spanning early childhood, latency, adolescence, and emerging adulthood.
Supervised clinical work with cases spanning early childhood, latency, adolescence, and emerging adulthood.
Classes embedded in the APT curriculum
- Infant Observation
- Introduction to Child Analysis
- Reflecting on the Baby's Experience - Infancy
- Studying the Growing Child - Child Development
- Exploring the Expanding Inner and Outer World of Adolescents