For Mental Health Professionals
Fall 2010 ScheduleTo register on-line, click here
The Art of Madness:
Trauma and Creativity in the Work of Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch
Peter Ruderman, MSW, LCSW
Wednesdays, October 13, 20, 27 & November 3
7:30 - 9:00 pm
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE: 6.0 Hours
Fee: $150
Dr. Bruce D. Perry has made a vast contribution to the study of the neurobiological impact of trauma on children. This course will attempt to integrate these findings with a psychoanalytic perspective on creativity and art. The lives and art of Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch will be presented to illustrate these ideas.
Objectives:
October 13, 2010: Review the contribution of Dr. Bruce D. Perry and begin to integrate it with the literature on creativity.
October 20, 2010: Continue to review the literature of creativity and how it relates to psychopathology.
October 27, 2010: Review the history of Vincent van Gogh and how it relates to his art.
November 3, 2010: Review the history of Edvard Munch and how it relates to his art.
Understanding and Treating Adopted Children
Chester Smith, MEd, LPC
Tuesdays, November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
7:00-8:30 pm
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE: 6.0 Credit Hours
Fee: $150
The focus of the course consists of two parts. First, attention will be given to the emotional challenges inherent in attachment disruption and the various meanings associated with having been relinquished. The second portion will focus on treatment issues. These will include the role of fantasy in trying to make sense out of a complicated and confusing early life, and how the transference is influenced by object loss and object replacement.
Objectives:
1. To better understand the effect of abandonment on sense of self, and on object relations.
2. To build appreciation for the critical role of transference in treating childrent who have experienced theloss of a primary object.
3. To explore treatment implications for working with adoptive parents.
Ethics in Social Work: Variations in Clinical Technique
Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW
Tuesday, December 7
7:00-9:00 pm
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE: 2.0 Hours + 1.0 reading
Fee: $30
Presently there is a greater variance in acceptable clinical technique than in decades past. When is a particular clinical intervention acceptable under the broadening definition of psychoanalytic technique and when is it an example of an ethical breach? Specific examples of clinical choices will be discussed so that this line can be more full explicated.
Objective:
Participants will better discern the differences between ethical code violations and variations in clinical technique.
Group Supervision for Mental Health Professionals
Date and Time to be determined by each group
CME/CE: 16.0 Hours
Fee: $320
Group Supervision offers exposure to a wide variety of cases and therapeutic styles thus a broader comparison of clinical material and therapeutic technique.
Objectives:
1. Help the supervisee recognize the differences between the patient's manifest vs. latent communications and when and how to respond to them based on the overall treatment strategy.
2. Identify patient transferences and therapist's countertransferences.
Participants in this program will be placed into groups of 3 or 4 therapists with an Institute Faculty member or Advanced Candidate as a supervisor. The group will meet weekly, at a time negotiated between the supervisees and the supervisor. Sixteen group sessions will be planned over a five-month period.
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