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The Curriculum

Course work focuses on both the developmental and clinical perspectives on childhood and adolescence. The academic year is divided into trimesters of ten weekly sessions. Classes meet on Thursdays from 8am through 1pm for one hour and fifteen minutes each. The three year schedule is as follows:


Courses : Year One

1st Trimester
Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: Birth to Early Childhood

The Course of Normal Development
Approaches to Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy:Assumptions, Philosophy, Historical Perspective


2nd Trimester
Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: Childhood

Beginning the Treatment: Assessment & Treatment Planning with Children
Introduction to Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
(Five Sessions)
Group Supervision


3rd Trimester
Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: Adolescence

Techniques of Child Psychotherapy:
Symbolization and Play
Group Supervision


Courses : Year Two

1st Trimester
Psychotherapy with Adolescents

Treating the Child/Adolescent in Context, Part I
Group Supervision

2nd Trimester
Neuropsychology Psychopharmacology Workshop

Psychopathology I
Group Supervision

3rd Trimester
Working with Groups Therapeutic Action (alternating years)

Children and Trauma
Group Supervision

Courses : Year Three

1st Trimester
Treating the Child/Adolescent in Context, Part II

Understanding Child's Play
Group Supervision


2nd Trimester
Working with the More Disturbed Child & Adolescent

Psychopathology II
Group Supervision


3rd Trimester
Working with Groups and Families Therapeutic Action (alternating years)

Working with Young Children (5 sessions)
Winnicott (5 sessions)
Group Supervision

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