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Webinars:
May 1 - May 26, 2006: Sebastiano Santostephano
Please Note: REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
You will also find the webinar registration form under the Community menu in the IARPP Intranet, once you have logged in.
We are pleased to announce that our next IARPP webinar will be taught by Sebastiano Santostephano and coordinated by Susan Bodnar.
The webinar will begin on May 1 and will run until May 26.
Title: Participating, enacting, and re-living in child relational psychotherapy: Relational Concepts
Description: In this webinar participants will be participating in both clinical and theoretical introductions to Santostefano's approach to child treatment. First, Participants will be introduced to concepts and research findings that explore the clinical significance of embodied life metaphors, and the relationships among body action, fantasy, and language as alternative modes of expressing meanings.
Second, participants will explore clinical examples that illustrate a form of no-talk, relational child psychotherapy. This technical focus emphasizes how child and therapist negotiate and construct a relationship within which the child enacts past stressful/traumatic experiences he/she endured. The therapist enters into these metaphoric behavioral constructions to enact solutions with the child. This results in the child resolving the trauma and developing a new self.
The webinar will demonstrate how the therapist can learn his/her and the child's body language in order to mindfully participate in enactments. The work of this on-line course will emphasize the importance of conducting child therapy in various indoor and outdoor environments. The work will be applicable to child and adult treatments, and practitioners of child and adult therapy are welcomed.
Bio: Sebastiano Santostefano, PhD, ABPP completed training in child and adult psychoanalysis. He then went on to become the Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychoeducation, Hall Mercer Center of McLean Hospital, and was Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. In 1993 he founded the Institute for Child and Adolescent Development , a non-profit organization that treated children who endured trauma. Currently he trains mental health professionals and conducts research. He is the author of eight books, including Integrative Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents with ADHD (1995) and A Handbook of Integrative Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents (1998), and Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors: A Relational View. (2004)
The webinar will be limited to 35 participants.
Participation will still be free for those who have not registered for previous webinars. For those who have participated in previous webinars, a nominal registration fee of $10.00 will be charged.
Details for registering will be sent to you April 18. At that time, those who have participated in previous webinars can pay this fee on-line via their credit cards.
This webinar series is conducted via easy-to-use webinar rooms provided by The Psychoanalytic Connection. In these webinars all the communications are posted in a private web-accessible e-classroom, rather than sent via email to each participant's individual e-mail box. In other words, it is a web-forum, bulletin-board structure. The limit on the number of participants along with the web-forum structure allows these webinars to provide greater opportunity for personal contact and open discussion among the webinar participants, along with facilitating a sense of shared participation and joint activity.
We anticipate that there will still be more members interested in participating than we accommodate. Registration is on a first come, first serve basis, so we encourage you to register early.
Participation in the webinar is limited to IARPP members in good standing, so please make sure that you have paid your current dues.