Curriculum

Course work focuses on both the developmental and clinical perspectives of childhood and adolescence. The academic year is divided into trimesters of ten weekly sessions. Classes meet on Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. for one hour and fifteen minutes each. The three year schedule is listed below.

 

 

 CURRICULUM 2021-2022

 

 

Please note: Classes begin at 8:30 am

 

YEAR ONE

 

1st Trimester:                                                                        

 

Psychoanalytic Theories of Development:                             

Birth to Early Childhood

Pantone (9 sessions)

8:30 am – 9:45 am

 

Radical Openness

Hart  (1 session, November 18)

8:30 am – 9:45 am

 

 

The Course of Normal Development                                      

Weisman (10 sessions)

10:00 am – 11:15 am

 

 

Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Theory

Schlesinger (10 sessions)

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

 

 

2nd Trimester:

 

Radical Openness

Hart  (1 session, February 3)

8:30 am – 9:45 am

 

Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: Middle Childhood

Dubinsky (9 sessions)

8:30 am – 9:45 am

 

 

 Beginning the Treatment: Assessment &                                

Treatment Planning with Children

Kaminer and Germain (10 sessions)

10:00 am – 11:15 am

 

 

Introduction to Interpersonal Psychoanalysis                         

Sauvayre (5 sessions)

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

 

 

Clinical Case Seminar                                                               

Gaines (5 sessions)

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

 

 

3rd Trimester:

 

Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: Adolescence        

Barish (10 sessions)

8:30 am – 9:45 am

 

 

Understanding Child’s Play                                                   

Ferraro (10 sessions)

10:00 am – 11:15 am

 

 

Clinical Case Seminar                                                               

Gaines (10 sessions)

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

 

 

YEAR TWO

 

1st Trimester:

 

Treating the Child/Adolescent in Context, Part I                    

Mathews (10 sessions)

8:30 am – 9:45 am

 

 

Working with Families

Casado-Frankel (10 sessions)

10:00 am – 11:15 am

 

 

Clinical Case Seminar                                                              

Lang (10 sessions) 

11:45 am – 1:00 pm  

 

 

2nd Trimester:

 

Psychotherapy with Adolescents                                            

Rose and Quinones (10 sessions)

8:30 am – 9:45 am

 

Psychopathology I                                                                  

Fabrick (10 sessions)

10:00 am – 11:15 am

 

 

Clinical Case Seminar                                                              

Lang (5 sessions) 

Seitz (5 sessions) 

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

 

 

3rd Trimester

British Object Relations: The Tavistock Model

Gennaro  (10 sessions)

8:30 – 9:45am

 

Children and Trauma                                                              

Cohen (10 sessions)

10:00 am – 11:15 am

 

Clinical Case Seminar                                                               

Seitz (10 sessions)

11:45 am – 1:00 pm

 

 

YEAR THREE

1st Trimester

Treating the Child/Adolescent in Context, Part II                    

Aronson (10 sessions)

8:30am – 9:45am

 

Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis                                                                             

Warshaw  (10 sessions)

10:00am – 11:15am

 

Clinical Case Seminar  

Shafran (10 sessions) 

11:45am – 1:00pm

 

 

2nd Trimester

Neuropsychology  

Morrell (10 sessions) 

8:30 – 9:45am                            

 

Working with LGBTQ Youth and Adolescents

Glazer  (10 sessions)

10:00 – 11:15am

 

Clinical Case Seminar

Shafran (5 sessions)

Weber (5 sessions)

 

3rd Trimester

Psychopathology II                                                                    

Briggs (10 sessions)

8:30 – 9:45am

 

 

Sullivan  

Rubin (5 sessions)

10:00 – 11:15am

 

Working with Autistic Spectrum Children

Rose (5 Sessions)

10-11:15

 

Clinical Case Seminar 

Weber (10 sessions)                                                               

11:45am – 1:00pm