Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Study Course Description

Psychotherapy of Children, Teenagers and Family Therapy I

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_032

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

13.95

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. To give an understanding of the goals and possibilities of counseling for couples and families.

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	-	-
Essay on 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

Adolescent psychotherapy. Mental and behavioral disorders in adolescents.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Infant monitoring and psychodynamic diagnostics.

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

13.95

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer. Partners in Play. e-Book 2016 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Henry Friedman. Confrontation in the Psychotherapy of Adolescent Patients. e-Book 2015 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Theodore Fallon, Susan P. Sherkow. Disordered thought and development: chaos to organization in the moment. 2014, Published by Jason Aronson.

Charles A. Sarnoff. Strategies Through Early Adolescence. e-Book 2016 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Joan Lachkar. Narcissistic/Borderline Couples: A Psychodynamic Approach to Conjoint Treatment. e-Book 2015 International Psychotherapy Institute.

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

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

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.

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

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.