Regulation Focused Psychotherapy Course

Instructors

Leon Hoffman, M.D.
Timothy Rice, MD

September 17 – October 1, 2018
Mondays, 7:30 – 9:00 PM
Location: NYPSI Auditorium

Pay fee – $90— This course is FULL.

4.5 CME/CE credits offered

Course Description

In this course, which is geared to mental health practitioners working with children and families, the instructors will describe the essence of the Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors, which is the first handbook of its kind to provide a manualized, short-term dynamic approach to the externalizing behaviors of childhood, offering organizing framework and detailed descriptions of the processes involved in RFP-C.

This approach includes how the clinician works to understand the meaning of the child’s maladaptive disruptive behavior. The treatment does not focus on teaching the child proper behavior or on teaching the parents management techniques. Instead, the therapist communicates to the child that there is meaning to the behavior and that it may feel safer to act up than feel painful emotions, such as sadness, shame, guilt, or loss. The child’s defensive maneuvers to avoid painful affects and the transference and countertransference issues are addressed. Moreover, any child treatment necessarily includes an active parenting component. In our manual we help parents to understand the meaning of their children’s behavior and how to approach their children in more effective ways. We help parents achieve greater understanding of their child as an individual with needs, worries, and responses to stress in their lives.

Leon Hoffman, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and is currently Co- director of the Pacella Research Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, and Chief Psychiatrist at West End Day School.

Timothy Rice, MD, is Unit Chief of the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit for the Mount Sinai Health System, New York City.

Tracy Prout, PhD, who is co-author with Drs. Hoffman and Rice, is assistant professor of psychology in the combined school-child clinical doctoral program at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She is also in private practice.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Describe how a child’s externalizing behaviors serve as defenses against painful affects.
2. Describe how to apply an operationalized defense-focused approach in a short term psychodynamic psychotherapy
3. Describe the similarities between the concept “defenses” and the neuroscientific concept “Implicit emotional regulation.”
4. Explain how psychoanalytic principles correlate with the use of the Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors.

Continuing Education Information

Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (4.5) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Psychologists: New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for these programs and their content.

Social Workers: New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0317.

DISCLOSURE: None of the planners or presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.