Residents present videotaped samples of their psychotherapeutic sessions with children, adolescents, and families. Participants make observations and comments concerning techniques of play therapy and verbal and nonverbal psychotherapy from psychodynamic and developmental perspectives. Emphasis is on dealing with manifest symptoms and behaviors while recognizing and helping the patient work through underlying defense mechanisms. The processes of resistance, transference, and countertransference in the therapeutic situation are examined. Residents learn similarities and differences in therapeutic work with preschool and school-aged children, adolescents, and adults.
Residents begin to learn the art of supervision.
This seminar meets one hour weekly for 4-5 weeks every other year. Upon completion, the residents will be able to facilitate the integration of psychological diagnostic services in clinical work, become a discriminate consumer of diagnostic psychological services, and be able to communicate to professionals, parents, and referring agencies psychodiagnostic findings along with psychiatric and clinical impressions. This seminar demonstrates how to evaluate research studies and diagnostic tests, understand and interpret rates, and select the proper statistic. It includes a critique of studies from child psychiatry literature. Required either first or second year of child psychiatry residency.