Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
A Full-Day Conference Sponsored by Center for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
Saturday, March 7, 2009
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Robert Morris College
8th Floor Auditorium
401 South State Street
Chicago
Psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents comes in many varieties. It can be once-weekly office sessions or four times a week psychoanalysis. It can be school-based group therapy or home visits with a parent and child. Sometimes therapeutic interventions do not take place directly with the child, but with significant others in the child’s life. A therapist may consult with teachers or lawyers, offer psycho-educational programs or social skills groups, or provide periodic consultation to parents about a child’s difficulties.
The common thread for psychodynamic intervention is not so much the form of the intervention, but rather the therapist’s guiding framework and stance toward the work. The psychoanalytically oriented therapist maintains a commitment to understanding the child’s subjective experience, psychological needs, developmental position, and the centrality of relationships. This framework includes attention to the process as well as the content of the therapy. Importantly, the therapist maintains an observing attitude toward his or her own responses and role within the treatment process.
In this conference, the multiplicity of forms that psychoanalytically oriented interventions with children and adolescents can take will be illustrated. The presenters will talk about how they work session by session and how they attend to the inner workings of both child and therapist. They will explain both why and what they actually say and do in the office or in settings outside the consulting room and consider how change happens in psychodynamic psychotherapy. The conference faculty consists of Institute-affiliated psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who have extensive clinical experience and are also supervisors, consultants, and authors who have made scholarly contributions to the field.
Educational Objectives
Conference participants will:
Acquire knowledge of the theoretical foundations and clinical process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with children and adolescents
Recognize the observational skills that therapists and psychoanalysts use to orient themselves to the child’s communications during the therapy hour
Recognize technical interventions during the therapy hour that contribute to psychological change
Apply psychoanalytic principles to therapeutic interventions outside the traditional office setting
Program
8:00-8:45 am Registration
8:45-9:00 Welcome and Introduction
David Terman MD and Erika Schmidt MSW
9:00-11:00 Panel
Intensive Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis:
Discovering the Internal World
Adele Kaufman MSW, Moderator
Ann Kaplan PhD
Jane McCormack PhD
Peter Shaft MSW
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-1:15 Panel
Outside the Frame:
Applying Analytic Thinking in Other Settings
Paul Holinger MD, Moderator
Robert Galatzer-Levy MD
Edward Kaufman MSW
Erika Schmidt MSW
1:15-2:15Lunch (included)
2:15-4:15 Panel
The Challenges and Possibilities of Once-a-Week Psychotherapy
Marcia Adler MA, Moderator
Paula Ammerman PhD
Laura Esikoff MA
Gabriel Ruiz MA
4:15-5:30 Conclusion: Pulling It Together
Judith Feigon Schiffman MSW
Bertram Cohler PhD
Conference faculty
Conference Faculty
Marcia Adler MA is Dean of Students at the Institute for Clinical Social Work, a candidate at Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and in private practice in Chicago.
Paula Ammerman PhD is a psychotherapist in private practice, on the faculty of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, and a therapist for A Home Within.
Bertram Cohler PhD is on the faculties of The University of Chicago and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Laura Esikoff MA is Executive Director, Integrated Assessment and Early Childhood Programs, a collaboration of Erikson Institute and Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, and a candidate in the Psychoanalytic Education Program at Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Robert Galatzer-Levy MD is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist of children, adolescents and adults who serves on the faculties of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and The University of Chicago.
Paul C. Holinger MD is Training and Supervising Analyst and Child Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Professor of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and author of What Babies Say Before They Can Talk: The Nine Signals Infants Use To Express Their Feelings.
Ann Kaplan PhD is a child and adult psychoanalyst on the faculties of Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program and in private practice in Chicago and Oak Brook.
Adele Kaufman MSW is Co-Chair, Child and Adolescent Analysis Program, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Training and Supervising Analyst and Child Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Edward P. Kaufman MSW is Director, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and in private practice in Chicago and Highland Park.
Jane McCormack PhD is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Education Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, an advanced candidate in child analysis at the Institute, and in private practice in Chicago and Winnetka.
Gabriel Ruiz MA is a second year candidate in the Psychoanalytic Education Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and in private practice in Chicago and Oak Park.
Judith Feigon Schiffman MSW is Director, Barr-Harris Children’s Grief Center of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Assistant Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program.
Erika Schmidt MSW is Director, Center for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Education Program and an advanced candidate in child analysis at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and in private practice.
Peter Shaft MSW is on the faculties of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program, the Institute for Clinical Social Work, and in private practice in Chicago and Oak Park.
Registration and Brochure
To register for the conference or receive a copy of the brochure, please call (312) 922-7474.