CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY SEMINARS 2008-2009
PROGRAM COORDINATORS:
Tina Lapides, L.C.S.W. (510-654-6430); Laurie Goldsmith, Ph.D. (510-652-1223)
Graeme Hanson, M.D., Consultant
Contemporary clinical observation and research have augmented and corrected psychoanalytic understandings of the processes of development, arrests in development, and resumption of development. This two year series of seminars addresses these relational, environmental and intrapsychic processes and offers in depth examples of interventions, including individual psychotherapy for the child, parent guidance, and collaboration with schools and other community supports for children. The first year of this two-year program reviews the basics of psychodynamic work with children and then focuses on normal development, pathology and treatment in infancy and early childhood. The second year addresses school-age children and adolescents, reviewing normal latency and adolescent development and then focusing on pathology and treatment. The seminars use class discussion, readings, video, and case presentations by instructors and participants. Students may enter at either year. Students are entitled to attend all Child Colloquia held at SFCP.
INTRODUCTION TO SEMINARS AND FACULTY
Wednesday, September 3, 2008.
NORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF LATENCY
This course will examine the importance of normal latency structure, the “state of mind” that promotes development and strengthens the child to enter adolescence, but which can sometimes restrict mental functioning in adulthood. Parents’ reactions to latency children will also be discussed.
Tina Lapides, L.C.S.W., Child Psychoanalyst, Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Wednesday, September 10, 17, 24, October 1, 2008.
BORDERLINE PATHOLOGY IN LATENCY
This course will begin with traditional thinking about borderline children, using Margaret Mahler’s separation-individuation research and the theory of ego deficits. We will go on to look at the perspective of Tavistock Infant Observation researchers and neo-Kleinian theory. Clinical process notes of a borderline child will be used.
Jan Baeuerlen, M.D., Child Psychoanalyst, Member, Faculty, Supervising Analyst, SFCP.
Wednesday, October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2008.
THINKING CLINICALLY: PREADOLESCENCE
Older children are on the brink of a new overwhelming awareness of their bodies and minds. How do we reach this inner world when they themselves do not have easy access to the words that capture their experience? How then do we create a space for their world to unfold in the therapy room? We will use theoretical papers and clinical material from the instructors and students to explore these questions.
Reyna Cowan, L.C.S.W., Advanced Candidate, PINC and Laurie Goldsmith, Ph.D. , Member, SFCP.
Wednesday, November 5, 12, 19, December 3, 10, 2008. (no meeting before Thanksgiving)
IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD LOSS
Our readings and discussions will focus on acute and chronic loss in children, this year focusing on older children. We will also consider the impact of anticipated loss, when terminal illness of a parent or sibling becomes part of a child’s life.
Toni Heineman, D.M.H., Founder and Executive. Director of “A Home Within”; Clinical Faculty, Dept. of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UCSF.
Saturday December 13, 2008 .
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Location TBA)
WORK WITH PARENTS
Work with children is dependent on our alliance with parents. We will focus on the “how-to’s” of parent work, including engagement, development of the relationship, and issues of transference and countertransference. We will use the work of Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick and also our own clinical examples to address how the development of children and parents influences our successes or failures.
Myrna Frankel, L.S.C.W., Child Psychoanalyst, Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Wednesday, January 7, 14, 21, 2009.
ADOLESCENCE VIEWED FROM A BIONIAN AND KLEINIAN PERSPECTIVE
Adolescence is a normative crisis when the prior organization of the personality can destabilize under the pressure of profound bodily changes and accompanying familial and social shifts. The Kleinian approach elucidates the manner in which more primitive and aggressive parts of the personality can take the fore, with the resulting characteristic disturbances of adolescence, e.g., eating disorders, cutting, substance abuse, risk taking, and vulnerability to psychotic breaks. Bion’s concepts of containment will be discussed.
Mary Brady, Ph.D., Child Psychoanalyst, Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Wednesday, January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 25, March 4, 2009.
CASE CONFERENCE
This section will allow participants to present their own material in a more focused way to two experienced clinicians and to each other.
John DiMartini, Ph.D., Affiliate Member, SFCP, & Catherine McKenzie, Ph.D., Member, SFCP.
Wednesday, March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2009.
TREATING SEVERLY DISTURBED ADOLESCENTS
This course will continue the exploration of adolescence, focusing on writings of Peter Fonagy, Efrain Bleiberg, and literature about trauma. Theory will be followed by discussion of treatment. Vignettes from participants will be encouraged.
George Stewart, M.D., Member, Faculty, SFCP.
Wednesday, April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2009.
Class meetings: Wednesdays from 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.; All class meetings will be held at SFCP, 2340 Jackson St., 4 th Floor, (entrance on Webster St.), San Francisco, CA, only Dr. Toni Heineman seminar will be on Saturday and off site (see above description); 35 sessions;52.5 CME credits; $1400; maximum enrollment of 12; Reader cost not included in tuition; For refund policies see registration; Please submit a short description of your clinical experience with your application.
