Working With Parents in Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy (4 CE) video course
Continuing Education Credit Hours:
4
This CE course is approved by:
APA, NBCC, IDFPR
CE course Category:
Clinical, working with children and family
CE Course Type:
Asynchronous home study video online course
Course Description:
Working with parents in child psychotherapy is often considered a challenging and complex dimension of working with children. Psychodynamic approaches offer many unique attributes that greatly enrich the clinician’s ability to understand and effectively meet the needs of parents of children in treatment. Psychodynamic concepts such as parenthood as a developmental phase, intergenerational transmissions, therapeutic alliance, resistance, transference and countertransference are some of the many ideas that will be covered in this course.
After building a depth of understanding about who parents are in relation to the child’s therapist and the general therapeutic stance of the clinician, we will examine specific methods of engaging with parents. We will cover the major modalities of parental involvement in a child’s treatment and how to determine which is most appropriate for individual cases. After establishing the basic framework for such engagement, we will explore the specifics of how, what, when and whether to communicate with parents. Finally, we will examine common areas of complexity and difficulty including confidentiality, working with highly conflictual parents and families, and working with parents who intrude upon, interfere with, or undermine the child’s therapy.
This presentation aims to provide information that is relevant to all practitioners working with children and parents, regardless of the amount of experience and level of familiarity with psychodynamic theory. It is intended to provide a well-rounded overview of the approach, practices, and theoretical foundation of working with parents.
Course Learning Outcome Objectives:
Participants will be able to differentiate 4 psychodynamic concepts that are useful in conceptualizing work with parents.
· Participants will be able to identify 5 modalities of working with parents of children in treatment and how to determine which is the most appropriate for each case.
· Participants will be able to apply ethical and clinical considerations in confidentiality between child patients and parents.
· Participants will be able to analyse how to share feedback, impressions, and guidance with parents effectively.
· Participants will be able to implement approaches for working with common challenging situations (high conflict, intrusiveness, and resistance).
David Sisk, LCSW, PhD
Dr. David Sisk is a clinician working with children, families, and individual adults in Northfield, Illinois. Dr. Sisk has worked with children and families for over 20 years in residential treatment, community-based mental health services, and long-term intensive treatment with children in early childhood who demonstrate early developmental difficulties, attachment problems, regulatory issues or neurodivergence. Dr. Sisk earned his MSW from Loyola University Chicago and his doctorate from the Institute for Clinical Social Work. In 2020, Dr. Sisk completed his dissertation on working with parents of children in psychodynamic child psychotherapy, a grounded theory study. Dr. David Sisk taught Case Conference at the Institute for Clinical Social Work and is a clinical consultant for community mental health clinics throughout Chicago.
How to Get Your CE Certificate After Completing The Course:
Please fill out a course evaluation and pass the post-test exam by 80% score or more. Your certificate will be issued to you after passing the exam. You can retake the exam if you do not pass.
CE Providers:
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Our goal is to help maintain and advance the knowledge and skills of doctoral-level psychologists. APA-approved Continuing education (CE) in psychology is an ongoing process consisting of formal learning activities that (1) are relevant to psychological practice, education, and/or science; (2) enable psychologists to keep pace with the most current scientific evidence regarding assessment, prevention, intervention, and/or education, as well as important relevant legal, statutory, leadership, or regulatory issues; and (3) allow psychologists to maintain, develop, and increase competencies in order to improve services to the public and enhance contributions to the profession.
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