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The Child Psychotherapy Fellowship program is a one-year program specifically designed for child mental health professionals who are interested in deepening their understanding of working with children from a psychoanalytic or psychodynamic perspective. The program is tuition-free. Detailed discussions of actual clinical work with children and reviews of relevant psychoanalytic literature will be used as a framework to enhance understanding and ability to carry out therapeutic work.
Topics Covered will include:
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Issues in
diagnostic understanding and
treatment planning with
children and adolescents.
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children.
▪ Professional and ethical issues in child psychotherapy.
▪ Work with children who are traumatized, learning disabled, and from diverse cultures.
▪ Work with parents and families.
▪ Case discussions.
Who should apply?
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Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers,
counselors) currently working with children in
psychotherapy.
▪ Recent graduates of training programs.
Educational objectives
Participants in the Fellowship should expect to develop:
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Familiarity with
contemporary psychodynamic strategies and approaches to
psychotherapy with children
and adolescents in all stages of
psychological development.
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Enhanced abilities
to develop a psychoanalytically-oriented formulation of a child's
conflicts and to use
this formulation to develop an appropriate
treatment plan for the child.
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Deeper capacities of understand the complexity of the child's communications during
the therapeutic
hour.
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Increased
understanding of parent-child dynamics and heightened effectiveness
in work with a child's
parents and family.
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Awareness of the
unique problems of and appropriate techniques for the treatment of
children with
special difficulties (learning disabilities, eating
disorders, adoption, trauma and abuse) and various
diagnoses
(autistic spectrum, and pervasive developmental disorder, Borderline
and narcissistic
pathology, oppositional defiant disorder).
Child Fellowship Program Directors
Washington
Charles E. Parks, Ph.D., (301) 320-3266
Dr. Parks is a Teaching analyst and a Supervising Child and Adolescent Analyst at the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he chairs the Child Division of the Institute's Psychoanalytic Training Program. He is also on the adjunct faculty of the George Washington University Psy.D. Program. Dr. Parks maintains a private practice in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD.
Baltimore:
Laurie S. Orgel, M.D., (410) 296-9033
Dr. Orgel is on the teaching faculty of the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She maintains a private practice in Baltimore, MD.
Schedule
Fellowship meetings will be held monthly, September through May, on the second Wednesday of every month, at the homes of Baltimore and Washington faculty members.
The application Process
Those interested in applying to the Child Fellowship Program should
submit the following information by July 15:
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A short personal
essay (two pages maximum) describing the development of your
interest in
psychoanalytic and/or psychodynamic approaches to
understanding and working with children.
▪ Current Curriculum Vitae.
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Two letters of
recommendation from professional having direct knowledge of your
therapeutic work with
children.
Please send completed applications to:
Child Fellowship
Program
Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis
14900 Sweitzer Lane, Suite 102
Laurel, MD 20707
For telephone inquires, call the Institute at:
(301) 470-3635 or (410) 792-8060