CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM - CAPP
PURPOSE
The psychodynamic approach focuses on the child’s life -- his thoughts, feelings, and fantasies about himself and the world around him. It seeks to understand how his symptoms express his inner life, and how they are shaped by a combination of innate, interpersonal, environmental, and psychological factors. A psychodynamic understanding assumes that the child’s symptoms are often shaped by factors outside of his conscious awareness, influenced by his psychological reactions to formative past experiences. Because children are less able than adults to consciously articulate their inner conflicts, fantasies, and dilemmas, these are often expressed in the form of challenging behaviors, interpersonal difficulties, self destructive symptoms, sadness and withdrawal, phobias, obsessional worries, or developmental delays. From a psychodynamic perspective, these symptoms are regarded as not just a source of trouble and pain, but also as an effort at adaptation. Therapeutic interventions aim to restore or promote the child’s psychological and emotional development, and to bring about long-lasting change.
The Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAPP) offers mental health practitioners the
opportunity to deepen and broaden skills in
· individual psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents,
· clinical assessment, and
· collaborative work with parents
CURRICULUM: A THREE-TRACK PROGRAM OF STUDY
The curriculum consists of three tracks:
· Concepts - consisting of 2 semesters on development and 2 semesters on psychopathology
· Technique - 4 semesters
· Clinical conferences - 4 semesters
Development (Year 1, both semesters) This component of the curriculum focuses on normal child development. It begins with an overview of the major traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to development. The emphasis is on the child’s evolving drives, wishes, fantasies, thoughts, and feelings; his experiences of himself; and his capacities for achievement, relatedness, and self-regulation. There are segments devoted to infancy, toddlerhood, the oedipal stage, latency, pre-adolescence, and adolescence.
Psychopathology (Year 2, both semesters) This two-semester course serves as a companion piece to the development segment of the curriculum. From a psychoanalytic perspective, psychopthology is the result of development that has gotten off track and is the expression of conflict between competing wishes or needs. Through an understanding of the developmental functioning underlying the symptom presentations, it is possible to develop an intervention designed to help the child resume normal developmental progress, or to at least function at a level closer to his developmental capacities.
Technique (all 4 semesters) The technique courses cover: psychodynamic/developmental assessment; the challenge of engaging children in the exploration of their worlds; psycho-analytically informed uses of play and other aspects of technique with children; the challenges of working with preadolescents and teens; and issues involved in working with parents or families.
These courses explore the concepts of resistance and defense, the treatment alliance, transference and countertransference, and others. Interventions are linked to a dynamic understanding of the child’s problems, with emphasis on influencing the child’s developmental functioning in long-lasting ways.
Clinical Conferences (all 4 semesters) In a clinical conference format, participants present clinical process material from the assessment and treatment phases of their work. The instructorfacilitates discussion of case conceptualization and intervention, with focus on the psychodynamics involved.
ELIGIBILITY
Applications are welcome from mental health professionals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing, and counseling. Students are encouraged but not required to be currently engaged in, or to have previously completed, a personal intensive psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. Applicants complete an application form before meeting with a member of the faculty for a personal interview. There is an application charge of $100
PRIVILEGES
CAPP students receive free membership in the Institute's Kapp Memorial Library. They are given advance notice of various Institute activities and are invited to participate in certain clinical seminars and topical workshops with Institute faculty and visiting teachers.
COMMUTERS
In
recent years an increasing number of students come from throughout the tri-state
area, from Columbus, Dayton, and Oxford in Ohio, Indianapolis and Bloomington in
Indiana, and from Lexington and Louisville in Kentucky. Every effort is made to
schedule classes and other activities in a manner respectful of the additional
effort commuting requires.
CONTINUING
EDUCATION
CPI
is a provider of Continuing Education Credits for counselors, social workers,
psychologists, and physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association is
accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
to sponsor continuing education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic
Association designates this continuing medical education activity on an hour for
hour basis in Category 1 of the Physicians Recognition Award of the American
Medical Association.
TUITION
Annual
tuition is $2,500.00 payable in four installments of $625.00 each on the first
of September, November, February, and April. Other arrangements may be made, if
necessary, after discussion with the Administrator. Tuition payments must be
up-to-date to qualify for continuing education credit and to participate in
periodic special workshops and other events. Other Fees: Supervision from
CPI faculty is available to CAPP students at a special rate of $50.00 per hour.
This fee is paid directly to the supervisor.
A
P P L I C A T I O N
(We
recommend you apply as early as
possible since class size will be limited.)
Although we do not have a firm deadline for admissions applications, we would like to have all applications and interviews completed prior to Thanksgiving, so that we can maximize our planning for the classes starting in January.
The application process to the Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program includes the submission of several documents and a personal interview.
Documents to be submitted are: 1) a completed application form
2) two letters of reference from sources of your choice
3) a professional resume
4) a copy of your present licensure and/or certificate document
5) verification of malpractice insurance
6) a nonrefundable $100 application fee
A personal interview is required for acceptance into the program. We will send you a schedule upon receipt of your application. At the interview, you will be asked to speak about a child or adolescent with whom you have worked. This might be an ongoing psychotherapy situation or assessment, or might be about someone with whom you have worked in the recent past. This will not be a formal case presentation, and lengthy preparation is not expected. Feel free to bring process recordings of a session, but these are not necessary. The purpose is just to determine the goodness-of-fit between your training needs and this program. We do not expect that you will be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge of or experience with psychodynamic interventions.
Please send forms to: Sydney Anderson, Ph. D. and Brett Clarke, MSW
c/o Mary VanAusdall, Associate Director
Cincinnati
Psychoanalytic Institute
Phone: 513-961-8886
Fax: 513-961-0308
e-mail: cpiadministrator@3001.us