CHILD DEVELOPMENT COURSE

December 11, 2019 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ Courses

 

Institute for Psychodynamic

Child Psychotherapy

 

The Institute of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (IPCP) (Cape Town) would like to inform clinicians and students of the upcoming 2020 / 2021 Child Development Course. Originally designed by Graham Music, consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist (Tavistock Clinic, London), and author of ‘Nurturing Natures’, the course offers students an acquaintance with recent and original research in early child development. Papers/texts are prescribed for each of the 14 seminars. The seminars run for 2 hours, and are held on the first Saturday of the relevant months.

IPCP (CT) CHILD DEVELOPMENT COURSE – proposed seminars

  • Developmental research & pre-natal life
  • The importance of very early experience
  • Attachment theory
  • Neurobiology & early development
  • Culture, diversity & developmental issues
  • Language, empathy & other minds
  • Memory & internal representations of relationships
  • Early defences
  • Play, creativity & flexibility
  • Adolescence & early adulthood
  • Humans as a group species
  • Gender, sexuality & the role of the father
  • Moral development
  • Maltreatment & resilience

Proposed dates: February 2020 – June 2021

 

Venue:  (TBC)

 

Cost: R3500.00 for 14 seminars; students and interns R1750.00 (TBC).

 

CPD: (will be) applied for

 

Course Coordinator: Bea Wirz, can be contacted for further information at [email protected]