Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Study Course Description

Psychotherapy of Children and Teenagers and Family Therapy

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_022

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

10.05

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Artūrs Utināns

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Psychotherapist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Artūrs Utināns

Contacts

About Study Course

Objective

Acquire dependence of knowledge and skills of psychotherapy of children and teenagers in compliance with the qualification of the psychotherapist. Provide knowledge and skills in diagnostics and differential diagnosis of mental, emotional, behavioural and psychosomatic disorders in a clinic for children and teenagers, as well as treatment; and in the etiopathogenesis children development disorders, as well as interpersonal relations disorders between a child and a carer are essential.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.recognise and define mental, behavioural and psychosomatic disorders with a crucial role of etiopathogenesis in children personality development disorders, disorders of inter-personal relations between a child and a caregiver, diagnostics and differential diagnosis, wide potential of the psychotherapy;

Skills

1.analyse a specific clinical case and elaborate treatment tactics;

Competences

1.example-based knowledge, skills and attitude essential for working at a hospital and for research, raising public awareness via media; understanding of a team-work (work in groups) and its functions, psycho-dynamics, crisis situations and their solution; as well as the ability to manage the work of a multi-disciplinary team and be part of such team, supervise doctors and medical staff.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
psychodynamic understanding of the work with children, adolescent, couples and families.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Resident expresses his/her knowledge and clinical/psychodynamic thinking in applaying psychotherapeutic techniques in the work with children, adolescents, couples, families.
2. Examination	-	-
Analysis of clinical cases, essay.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Theories of personality development, psychology by the age range, object relations theories, attachment theory, theories of the self, theory of affects, theory of systems. Peculiarities of psychodynamic psychotherapy, family therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy together with children, consultations for parents, social skills workshop, training for the relationship; child and adolescent psychotherapy.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

10.05

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy. edited by Alan S. Gurman. 2010 The Guilford Press.

Handbook of couples therapy / edited by Michele Harway. 2005 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Handbook of Family Therapy. The Science and Practice of Working with Families and Couples. edited by Thomas L.Sexton, Gerald R.Weeks, Michael S.Robbins. Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.

The handbook of child and adolescent psychotherapy : psychoanalytic approaches / edited by Monica Lanyado and Ann Horne. 2009 Routledge.

Emotions in child psychotherapy : an integrative framework / Kenneth Barish. 2009, by Oxford University Press, Inc.

The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy / Tessa Baradon with Carol Broughton, Iris Gibbs, Jessica James, Angela Joyce and Judith Woodhead of the Parent-Infant Project at The Anna Freud Centre. 2005 by Routledge.

The bi-personal field: experiences in child analysis/Antonino Ferro. Routledge, 1999.

Play therapy : the art of the relationship / by Garry L. Landreth.—2nd ed. Brunner-Routledge, 2002.

Psychotherapy with infants and young children : repairing the effects of stress and trauma on early attachment / Alicia F. Lieberman and Patricia Van Horn. 2008 The Guilford Press.

Additional Reading

Textbook of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine by Richard J. Shaw and David R. DeMaso, Feb 12, 2010.

Child Art Therapy. By Judith Aron Rubin. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

Sandplay therapy : research and practice / Grace Hong. Wu-Nan Publishing Company, 2007.