The Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPPT)
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General Statement
Description
Eligibility
Format
Faculty
Schedule
Curriculum
Tuition and Fees
Admission Requirements
Privileges and Benefits
Application Process
Accreditation
Testimonials
General Statement
The Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Training Program (CAPPT): A Post-Graduate Opportunity for Clinicians
CAPPT is a unique four-year part-time clinically oriented, psychoanalytic psychotherapy training program. Its focus is to train mental health professionals in the intensive treatment of children and adolescents who are experiencing psychological and developmental difficulties.
Today's complex lives demand that psychotherapists develop specific skills in the understanding of child development and the ability to help children, parents, and the community. To meet these challenges, CAPPT has designed a program: (1) to provide comprehensive training in child diagnosis and psychotherapy for emotionally disturbed children and their families; (2) to develop and strengthen the requisite skills to teach, supervise, and consult in agencies, clinics, and schools; (3) to serve as a model for the development of similar training programs. CAPPT candidates include: physicians, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals who have had experience in working with children and adolescents.
Description
Unique Features of CAPPT
CAPPT is a multidisciplinary program whose primary focus is on clinical training. When CAPPT began in 1962, it was the first four-year post-graduate degree program offering psychoanalytically-based intensive clinical training in child psychotherapy. The CAPPT program has a rich and long history of providing community education through a variety of mental health conferences, workshops, extension classes and teacher education seminars. The CAPPT program is recognized in Chicago and throughout the United States as a leading educational and training program model in the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy. In the field of child mental health, CAPPT graduates are esteemed as psychotherapists, supervisors, consultants, teachers, and administrators. A number of graduates are also on the faculties of CAPPT and other Institute programs.
Since the program’s inception, CAPPT students have provided diagnostic services to over 4000 children and adolescents, and intensive psychotherapy to more than 550 children and adolescents. CAPPT students can elect to provide diagnostic evaluations and child and adolescent psychotherapy for the children and adolescents served at the Beacon Therapeutic School and Casa Central to fulfill their clinical requirements for diagnostic evaluations and psychotherapy.
Eligibility
CAPPTis open to mental health professionals from psychiatry, psychology, social work, counseling and psychiatric nursing and education, as well as other professionals who work with children. All CAPPT participants must be licensed and/or certified to practice psychotherapy in the State of Illinois and have malpractice insurance coverage for the psychotherapy practices. Copies of license and insurance coverage must be provided upon acceptance into CAPPT. It should be noted that most CAPPT students work full time, some commute from other cities and many have families.
Format
- A theory track, to study contemporary models of the therapeutic process.
- A clinical track to systematically explore the clinical exchange.
- Individual clinical case supervision from experienced practicing psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. Supervision fees are included in the tuition.
Faculty
All seminars and supervision sessions are taught by members of the faculty of The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, as well as other experts in the field of child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy. The Faculty of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program, together with the staff of the Institute’s Barr-Harris Children’s Grief Center, established the “Englewood Project.” This joint volunteer program provides psychodynamically informed treatment within the Englewood Neighborhood schools to children who have experienced or were exposed to violence in their lives. CAPPT Faculty provides volunteer psychotherapeutic consultation to a child and family service agencies within the Chicago metropolitan area, and to mental health professionals working in several Chicago charter schools.
Schedule
Classes begin in late September or early October and meet weekly on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, from 8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. The academic year consists of three 10 week quarters.
Curriculum
The objectives of the curriculum are to provide each student with: a sound theoretical approach to diagnosis and treatment planning; a body of knowledge of psychoanalytic psychology; and, a command of psychotherapeutic techniques for the treatment of children and adolescents with different types of emotional disorders, as well as methods for working with their parents. Courses are periodically revised and expanded and new courses added in order to keep abreast of new developments, as well as to meet the specific needs of each class.
FIRST YEAR:
Fall, Winter & Spring Quarters:
- Normal Development
- Infant Observation
- Child Psychotherapy Clinical Case Conference
- Diagnostic Evaluation
SECOND YEAR:
Fall Quarter:
- Child Psychotherapy Clinical Case Conference
- Infant Observation
- Adolescent Development I
- Adventures in Reading: Sigmund Freud I
Winter Quarter:
- Child Psychotherapy Clinical Case Conference
- Infant Observation
- Adolescent Development II
- Adventures in Reading: Sigmund Freud II
Spring Quarter:
- Child Psychotherapy Clinical Case Conference
- Infant Observation
- Adolescent Development III
- Adventures in Reading: Anna Freud
THIRD YEAR:
Fall Quarter:
- Object Relations: Klein
- Separations
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Clinical Case Conference
Winter Quarter:
- Object Relations: Self Psychology
- Work with Parents
- Dreams, Fantasy and Play
- Clinical Case Conference
Spring:
- Object Relations: Self Psychology
- Parent Loss
- Dreams, Fantasy and Play
- Clinical Case Conference
FOURTH YEAR:
Fall Quarter:
- Object Relations
- Psychoanalytic Writing
- Supervision and Consultation
- Termination Seminar
Winter Quarter:
- Creative Stories: Narratives of Development I
- Psychoanalytic Writing
- Applied Psychoanalytic Concepts
- Termination Seminar
Spring Quarter:
- Creative Stories: Narratives of Development II
- Special Topics
- Learning Disabilities
- Termination Seminar
Students who have satisfactorily completed the CAPPT curriculum will be awarded the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis Certificate of Advanced Training in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Tuition and Fees
Tuition is $3,600 per year. CAPPT tuition includes weekly individual supervision sessions throughout the academic year. Tuition payments of $1,200 are due at the beginning of each academic quarter – September, January and April. Limited financial assistance is available.
A $30 fee will be assessed each year for full use of P-E-P, the online Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing service of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Admission Requirements
Requirements for Admission to the CAPPT Program
- Personal psychoanalysis or intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy completed or well under way. Personal treatment may be obtained either privately with a psychoanalyst or psychotherapist approved by the Institute or through the Clinic of the Institute for Psychoanalysis. The objectives of personal treatment are: (a) to acquire direct experience of the influence of the unconscious and the defenses on behavior; (b) to gain sufficient freedom from those emotional conflicts which would otherwise interfere with one's clinical work; and, (c) to overcome unconscious resistances which would otherwise block learning.
- A graduate degree in the mental health or human development field where there is an emphasis on the clinical theory and technique of psychotherapy. For example, we accept applications from social workers, psychologists, pediatricians, psychiatric nurses, counselors, and educational and speech therapists. We encourage applications from those who work in educational institutions and social agencies providing community service.
- Previous professional experience working therapeutically with children and adolescents. Experience in working with adults is recommended.
- Personal suitability for undertaking and completing the program as evaluated through individual interviews with the Admissions Committee. The applicant's capacity for learning, motivation for undertaking and completing the program and interest in continuing to work with children, adolescents, and their parents are assessed.
- Coverage by adequate malpractice insurance is required.
Privileges and Benefits
Students enrolled in CAPPT will have access to The Institute’s McLean Library, containing one of the largest collections of psychoanalytic literature in the world. They are also invited to participate in the lively Institute Seminars, held every Wednesday from; 1:30 to 2:45, where local and visiting mental health professionals present works in progress. Students are encouraged to participate in The Institute’s many educational activities and to attend the monthly scientific meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. In addition, all students and graduates are eligible for membership in the Psychotherapy Associates of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Association of Child Psychotherapists, an organization of alumni and students of CAPPT.
Application Process
For an application or additional information, please contact Edward Kaufman, LCSW at 847-432-7440 or by email at e-p-k@comcast.net
Accreditation
Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates each educational activity for a maximum of 100 hours in category one credit towards the Physicians Recognition Award.
Psychologists: The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists and maintains responsibility for this program.
Social Workers: The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is approved as a continuing education sponsor for social workers by the Department of Professional Regulations of the State of Illinois. The Institute designates each continuing education activity as earning a maximum of 100 hours Continuing Education for Social Workers.
Professional Counselors: The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is approved as a continuing education sponsor for Professional Counselors and Clinical Professional Counselors by the Department of Professional Regulations of the State of Illinois. The Institute designates each continuing educational activity as earning a maximum of 100 hours Continuing Education credit.
Testimonials
“The CAPPT Program was a turning point in my career as a psychologist. Although I had many training experiences prior to CAPPT, this program’s intense supervision and mentoring gave me the knowledge and confidence to develop and use my talents in ways I had never imagined.”
Connie Bernt, Ph.D.
“Looking back on my psychoanalytic psychotherapy training, I feel CAPPT was a turning point in my life. Developing expertise in a specialized skill area and having a command of the literature is empowering. Studying with some of the best-trained and sharpest minds in the field was an exciting and unforgettable experience.”
Harold K. Bendicsen, LCSW
“The CAPPT Program gave me an extraordinary opportunity to learn how to think deeply about my clients. The program length and small Classes allowed for frequent case discussions. I have grown tremendously in my work with children and adolescents.”
Stephanie Halpern, LCSW
“It gives me great pleasure to recommend the CAPPT Program to anyone interested in a life-changing experience. The comprehensive curriculum has proven relevant to current practice demands and the four years of instruction and supervision opened my eyes to a vastly enriched experience of child therapy.”
Fred Gross, Ph.D., LCSW
“There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t use what I learned in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program.”
Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD
“The CAPPT Program was transformative, both personally and professionally. Of particular value were the many hours of one-on-one case consultation with the highly skilled clinicians on the faculty.”
Sally Carton, LCSW
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