A Psychodynamic Guide to Understanding the Development of Children, Adolescents, and the Child-Parent Relationships
1st Trimester of Year 2 of the Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)
Instructor: Jerome Blackman, M.D. FIPA Date:Thursdays, October 12th – December 21st, 2023 (8:40pm – 9:55pm EST/EDT) (no class on November 23rd, 2023) Location: Virtual Live (via Zoom)
Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5 hours Continuing Education Information: 14.5 CE hrsSee details here Tuition:$450/10-week course/trimester (can be paid in 2 installments) Registration fee:$25/course (waived for ORI’s candidates in training)
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DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to illustrate the practical use of multiple analytic theories that explain both normal and disturbed child development and its effect on later symptomatology, object relations, and character formation. Each class will consist of a 45-minute lecture, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A, ample time to discuss your case vignettes with Dr. Blackman or ask questions regarding theory.
To accomplish a complete understanding of any child, Key Questions must be answered by caregivers about the current state of functioning of the child and the child’s relationship with important people in the home. Key Questions must also be answered regarding each prior developmental phase. Finally, the child must be seen in consultation, with or without parents present, depending on several factors – which will be elucidated.
Treatment selection will be discussed, as well as some correlation of different developmental and conflictual difficulties with later, adult, psychopathology.
The course is structured around a recent book, Blackman, J. & Dring, K. (2023). Developmental Evaluation of Children and Adolescents: A Psychodynamic Guide (Routledge). Readings (in PDFs) will be supplied to all registered.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this course, its participants will be able to:
Week1: A Quick Overview of the Main Theories used in understanding Child and Adolescent Development in this Course (pp. 1-13) The lecture and Q&A will
Demonstrate the fundamental theories to be used in talking to caregivers.
Illustrate the material needed at each stage.
Overview of techniques in assessing children.
Declaim the questions that must be asked of caregivers.
Week 2: The Structure of the Evaluation The lecture and Q&A will
Expose mistakes and explain correct techniques in meeting with parents.
List the keyquestions caregivers should be asked about the child’s developmental history:
Illustrate the approach in the initial meetings with caregivers;
Learn how the parents view the child’s problems;
Find out what the parents have tried thus far.
Describe the evaluation session with the child, or if necessary, with a parent.
Describe the final interpretive meeting with parents.
Week 3: Pregnancy and the immediate postpartum period The lecture and Q&A will
Recount the medical and interpersonal matters affecting the pregnancy.
Illustrate taking a couple’s history.
Clarify the effects of alternative pathways to pregnancy.
Obtain material regarding nursing: breast or bottle.
Elucidate the 4 temperaments of children.
Week 4:Birth to 1 year of age The lecture and Q&A will
Determine the approaches to crying (Pick up the baby! Blackman, 2017).
Observe the temperament of the baby in relation to the feeding schedule.
Decipher if eye contact with mother and mirroring were achieved.
Discover the effects of multiple caregivers or daycare.
Elucidate details of the effects of sleeping arrangements.
Week 5: Ages 1-3 years: Separation-individuation The lecture and Q&A will
Note milestones regarding mobility.
Ascertain the actual sleeping arrangements and their effects.
Unearth the types of discipline used and their effects.
Examine the effects of toilet training techniques.
Check the unrolling of language development and preschool.
Week 6: 2- 7 ½: First genital phase The lecture and Q&A will
Clarify if self and object constancy have been achieved: Peek-a-boo test.
Determine the effects of sleeping arrangements, nudity, and overstimulation.
Adumbrate the management of child’s masturbatory play.
Assess the effects of the types of discipline used.
Help discern if evidence of a “Family Complex” occurred (Blum).
Emphasize the gender variations in emotional stability (Rhona Knight).
Week 7: Ages 6 ½ – 11 ½ Latency The lecture and Q&A will
Utilize differences in stability between girls and boys.
Categorize the effects of co-sleeping at this age.
Deduce effects of corporal punishment or spoiling.
Review differential diagnosis of academic performance difficulties.
Distinguish the potential meanings of electronic devices.
Detail the five areas that produce symptoms and beginning character problems (p. 102).
Week 8: Ages 10 ½ – puberty: Preadolescence The lecture and Q&A will
Demonstrate prototypical emotional volatility in girls and withdrawal in boys.
Recognize the increase in distinct types of aggression.
Delineate matters of autonomy and the “second individuation.”
Describe the effects of punishments used.
Comprehend the unconscious and conscious dynamics of bullies and the bullied.
Explicate the avoidance of favorite activities?
Week 9: Puberty – 15/16 years The lecture and Q&A will
Calculate the effects of multiple factors about puberty (including timing).
Consider periodic irruptions of primary process vs. schizophrenia.
Attend to relationships outside the family – and their meanings.
Assess career plans as ego interests and fantasy as trial action.
Examine changes in morality and identifications.
Distinguish motives for sexual activities (dyadic and monadic).
Explain how to search for counterphobic defenses.
Describe failures in development of sublimatory channels.
Explicate the dynamic management of suicidal behaviors.
Review what symptoms, eating disorders, and school failures develop.
Describe difficulties of delays in social skills.
Week 10:Ages 16-20+ Late Adolescence –same parameters as early adolescence, but more intensity
The lecture and Q&A will look toward how to assess and treat.
Failures to develop autonomy (failure to launch).
Limitation in social skills.
Serious mental illnesses.
Impulsivity and computer use (games).
Boundary matters about close friendships, including dedifferentiation.
Problems with de-idealization of parents.
Complicated sexual and moral development.
Dangerous suicide attempts.
SYLLABUS:
Week 1: A Quick Overview of the Main Theories Used in Understanding Child and Adolescent Development in This Course (pp. 1-13)
Autonomous Ego Functions.
Ego strengths.
Object Relations Theories.
Attachment and Detachment Theories.
Self-Psychology.
Superego theory.
Conflict theory – defense and compromise formation.
Psychological testing.
Week 2: The Structure of the Evaluation
Meeting with parents – key questions:
Final – interpretive.
How the parents view the child’s problems, and what they have tried to do about them.
Resistance of Parents:
Concretization
Projective blaming
Parents’ potential psychopathology.
DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY, beginning with conception.
Meeting with the child:
Play materials with younger ages.
Types of interventions not to make with child.
Types of interventions that facilitate history and beginning treatment.
Week 3: Pregnancy and the Immediate Post-partum Period
Medical, situational, and interpersonal matters affecting the pregnancy.
The couple relationship during gestation and just after delivery.
Other relationships impinging on the couple.
Alternative pathways to pregnancy? Effects?
Sleeping arrangements and their effects.
Breast or bottle.
Temperament of the child.
Attachment and anaclitic depressions.
Week 4: Birth to 1 Year of Age
Pick up the baby! Approaches to crying (Blackman, 2017).
Feeding schedule.
Eye contact with mother.
Multiple caregivers – effects.
Daycare – effects.
Sleeping arrangements.
Was toilet training attempted?
Attachment matters.
Paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions.
Week 5: Ages 1-3 years: Separation-Individuation
Sleeping arrangements and their effects.
Discipline???
Toilet training techniques and their effects.
Child’s use of “no!” and parents’ reactions
Language development.
Preschool? Effects?
Week 6: Ages 2 – 7.5: First Genital Phase
Self and object constancy: Peek-a-boo test
Sleeping arrangements, nudity, and overstimulation
Management of child’s masturbatory play
Games and activities
Types of discipline used.
“Family Complex” (Harold Blum’s update of child’s fantasy life)
Gender variations in emotional stability (Rhona Knight)
Week 7: Ages 6.5 – 11.5: Latency
Age range in girls and boys.
Sleeping arrangements and their effects.
Punishments used.
Does the child have friends?
Academic performance?
Reality testing development.
Interferences by electronic devices.
Chart of compromise formation (p. 102).
Week 8: Ages 10.5 – Puberty: Preadolescence
Increase in emotional volatility?
Upsurge of interest in gender matters.
Withdrawal?
Symptom development (panic, phobia, obsession, compulsion, conversion, depression, eating disorders).
Punishments used – effects.
Drug abuse or sexual acting out by parents?
Bully or been bullied?
Avoidance of favorite activities?
Week 9: Puberty – 15/16 years
Maturation and autonomy.
Organization of schedules and study?
Social skills?
Serious mental illness? Hallucinations and delusions?
Impulsivity and computer use (games).
Close friendships or not?
Easily influenced or not?
Ideals for career and family?
Morality matters and changes.
De-idealization of parents and its effects.
Sexual activity.
Counterphobic tendencies.
Suicidal behaviors.
Sublimatory activities increasing or not?
Week 10: Ages 16-20+ to Late Adolescence – same parameters, different intensity
Maturation and autonomy.
Organization of schedules and study?
Social skills?
Serious mental illness? Hallucinations and delusions?
Impulsivity and computer use (games)
Close friendships or not?
Easily influenced or not?
Ideals for career and family?
Morality matters and changes.
De-idealization of parents and its effects
Sexual activity.
Counterphobic tendencies.
Suicidal behaviors.
Sublimatory activities increasing or not?
Plans for leaving home.
SHORT BIO:
Professor Jerome Blackman is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst (certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association, the American Board of Psychoanalysis, the Council of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies, and the International Psychoanalytic Association). He has been in private practice since 1975 and is currently a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He is also an IPA Training and Supervising Analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society in Washington, DC.
Dr. Blackman was the 12th Recipient of Akhtar-Brenner Lectureship Award from Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in 2017 where he lectured on the Expanded Mental Status Assessment. He was an invited lecturer at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine Department of Psychotherapy in 2017, where he lectured on Differential Diagnosis and Redefinition of Masochism.
The Jerome S Blackman, MD [yearly] Lectureship in Psychoanalysis was established in his honor, in 2019, by the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society and Eastern Virginia Medical School. At the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (VA), the Jerome S Blackman MD Teacher of the Year Award was given to 25 different teachers from 1992-2016. He received the Edith Sabshin MD Award for Teaching from the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Early in his career, while in child psychoanalytic training at the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, he consulted to many Child Protection Centers. Based on his experiences, in 2016 he co-authored Sexual Aggression against Children: Pedophiles’ and Abusers’ Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law (Routledge) with Dr. Kathleen Dring. In 2023, they wrote Developmental Evaluation of Children and Adolescents: A Psychodynamic Guide (Routledge).
In 2003, his paper on countertransference was published in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He later published several book chapters on topics including stepparenting, porn addiction, the first year of life, laziness, shame, philandering, fear of injury, and the death of the analyst.
He has lectured at many universities in China, as well as psychoanalytic institutes and universities in the U.S. and worldwide. From 2018-2021, he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Mental Health at Shanxi Medical University in Taiyuan. He was a keynote speaker at the 6th and 7th China Psychoanalytic Association Congresses in Shanghai (2019 & 2021) regarding child development and developmental issues in supervision; he received the “High End Foreign Talent” Honor from Shanxi Province in 2018.
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis 2023 Fall Training at ORI October 12, 2023 – December 21, 2023 Live Online
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis (ORIPP). Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.
Psychologists (APA) Credit Designation
This course is co-sponsored by Amedco and Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Amedco is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Amedco maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 14.5 (of 27.0) CE hours.
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To receive CE certificates for the actual hours attended – please request them at the time of registration or any time prior to beginning of the conference. CE certificate fee: $25 (in addition to the registration fees). No fees charged for PD (Professional Development) certificates from ORI.
REGISTRATION AND FEES:
Tuition: $450/10-week course/trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request) Registration fee: $25/course (waived for ORI’s candidates in training)
SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS are available for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for retired or disabled practitioners, or need-based or/and those who live outside of the USA. To apply for your scholarship, please go to the registration form below.
CANCELLATION POLICY: Full refund until the 1st session. 75% refund before the 2nd session. 50% refund before the 3rd session. No refund from the day of the third session, but 50% of the full paid tuition will be applied to any further ORI events.
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