The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Sonoma Outreach Program Presents: |
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Conversations on Adolescence:
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Youth Risk. |
Conversations on Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Youth at Risk is an outreach project designed to provide a series of presentations in Sonoma County on the application of psychoanalytic ideas to work with foster children, and other adolescents at risk. Our project is intended to reach a broad audience of professionals working with those children and adolescents, including social workers, parent educators, marriage & family therapists, psychologists, and lawyers, many of whom will not have had much exposure to psychoanalytic thought. When programming is suitable we will also include undergraduate and graduate students at Sonoma State University.
The project consists of clinical and theory-related courses given by members of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts from the greater Bay Area. Topics include attachment, grieving, the trauma of object loss and loss of trust, psychoanalytic case formulation and treatment planning, the application of the work of pertinent psychoanalysts (Alvarez, Winnicott, Fonagy, etc.), the role of projection and splitting in the foster care system, adolescent sexuality, and ethics in treatment, among others. Courses will be offered at a level that will be accessible to persons with little psychoanalytic knowledge yet interesting to advanced professionals as well.
The goal of the series is to promote a better understanding of psychoanalysis in the community. This involves contact with a broad spectrum of community institutions and professionals and provides a model for outreach involvement beyond the regular activities of Institutes and Societies.
Program Developer: Marilynne Kanter, Ph.D.
Conversations on Adolescents:
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Youth at Risk
The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis continues, for the fourth season, its presentation of psychoanalysts from the Bay Area speaking on various aspects of the application of psychoanalytic ideas in working with adolescents. The series is intended to provide discussion of topics relevant to the understanding and treatment of this challenging population, with an emphasis on the contribution of psychoanalytic theory as presented by distinguished psychoanalysts from the Bay Area with an emphasis on the clinical aspects of treatment.
| Location: |
Flamingo Conference Resort and Spa
2777 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
(707) 545-8530 |
| Cost: |
Free Attendance |
| CE Credit: |
$ 15.00 |
Saturday, September 19, 2009
10:00 – 12:30 Presentation
Just Why do Adolescents do What They Do? A Review of What We Know About the Adolescent Brain and Its Implication for Understanding Adolescent Behavior
Presenter: Katherine Fraser, D.M.H.
Understanding the inner psychological and dynamic life of early to late adolescence must include a study of many relevant perspectives including earlier developmental stages, object relations, family dynamics and the role of culture. Recent discoveries in neuroscience add an important perspective to understanding adolescent behavior and better equip us as professionals to meet the challenges of distinguishing between the more dramatic vagaries of normal development and the psychopathology of our troubled youth. Just why do adolescents do what they do? While not holding all the answers, the findings of brain research can help us to understand adolescent behavior.
Katherine Fraser, D.M.H. a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, is a member of the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis as well as a member of the clinical faculties in the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco and UC, Davis where she has taught residents, psychologists and medical students. Dr. Fraser has taught throughout Northern California on topics including adolescent development and identity formation as well as on the supervisory process in the training of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. She was a member of the Fellowship Committee and Co-chair of the Committee for New Psychoanalytic Centers of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Fraser is in private practice in San Francisco and Sacramento, California
Saturday, October 17, 2009
10:00- 12:00 Presentation
Clinical Formulation: Writing as a Means of Thinking About Adolescents
Presenters: Elizabeth Simpson, L.C.S.W.
Clinical formulation is the result of transforming and organizing our clinical experiences into language. It is a means of communicating something of our experience with our clients, ourselves and to colleagues. In this ½ day seminar we will make use of writing and discussion as a means of gaining greater access to our thinking, our clinical experiences, and our ability to communicate that experience to ourselves and others. Case vignettes of adolescents will be presented.
Please come with ideas of cases that you are puzzled about. We will spend some time together with you brainstorming about your case and answering some of the following questions in your own mind that will help build a formulation.
Elizabeth Simpson, L.C.S.W. is a social worker and adult analyst in private practice in San Francisco; associate clinical professor in the child and adolescent department at UCSF where she supervises and teaches case formulation and technique; faculty, Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. For the past ten years Elizabeth has worked as a consultant to the AVARY project which serves children of incarcerated parents.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
10:00 – 12:00 Presentation
When Boys Will Be Girls and Girls Will Be Boys: Understanding and Treatment of Gender Non-Conforming Youth and their Families
Presenter: Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D.
Ever since Freud, clinicians have grappled with the conundrums of gender: How does it happen? When does it happen? Why does it happen? This workshop will address a particular group of adolescents who have forced us to re-evaluate our discourse on these questions: gender nonconforming, particularly transgender youth. Looking at the complicated choreography between nature and nurture, Dr. Ehrensaft will present clinical material from her work with “gender creative” youth and their parents. She will then invite participants to share their own experiences with gender-non conforming or transgender work in the context of a discussion of the clinician’s role in facilitating gender authenticity in your young patients.
Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. is a developmental and clinical psychologist in Oakland who specializes in work with gender non-conforming children and youth and their parents. She is the author of “Raising Girlyboys: A Parent’s Perspective” (Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2007), among other publications, as well as the forthcoming book, Gender Born, Gender Made: Gender Creative Children and their Families. She is a founder of the reproductive technology research group at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a senior clinician and board vice president of A Home Within, as well as a supervisor/consultant at WestCoast Children’s Center.
For RSVP, please call 415-563-5815 or Finance@sf-cp.org.
Click here for Fall 2009 Conversations on Adolescents brochure.
Conversations on Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on
Youth-At-Risk is funded by generous grants from the
American Psychoanalytic Foundation and
The Sophia Mirviss Fund
