Continuous Case Seminar I

Laurie Levinson, Ph.D.  

PTY-CA - 1st Year
Winter 2006

Material from the phases of the psychotherapy of a pre-school child is presented in detail by students in this continuous case conference. In the opening phase, special attention is devoted to the initial evaluation for psychotherapy, the work with the family, the establishment of a therapeutic milieu, the ways in which a child therapist relates to a young child, the function of play and play materials, the development of the transference, countertransference, and the establishment of a therapeutic alliance. In the middle phase, emphasis is placed on the deepening of the therapeutic alliance, transference, interpretation, resistance, and the process of working through. In the later phase, the focus is on the process of termination of psychotherapy.
1-10. The Psychotherapy of the Pre-School Child