Overview

Series: Time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults, children, adolescents, and parents.

This series is intended to challenge the stereotype that psychodynamic psychotherapy is solely synonymous with long term clinical work. It provides an innovative, contextual therapeutic model whereby behaviour is not perceived solely in pathological terms but as having profound meaning.

The presenting problem or the symptom is thus recalibrated as providing the opportunity for us to understand how adults ’speak’ their life experience and how children and young people ‘speak’ their family.  

The model emphasizes the possibilities for growth and change and the development of capacity in both adults as well as children and young people. This requires us to attend simultaneously to the three interconnected domains of the intra-psychic, the interpersonal and the systemic in the therapeutic process.

Part 1: Introducing time-limited psychodynamic therapy model. 

Part 2: Applying the time-limited psychodynamic therapy model. 

The series will cover the following areas:

• a brief history of time- limited psychodynamic psychotherapy,

• the psychodynamic treatment method,

• the dynamics of the assessment process – from hypothesis to formulation,

• the primacy of the developmental task,

• the impact of separation, loss, and trauma,

• individual, interpersonal, and systemic connections, and

• the therapeutic relationship and the therapeutic alliance.

Level of Learning

Foundational. This activity is targeted to those new to the topic.

Duration of access

Access to this activity is for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration.

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Activity details

• On-demand webinar recording

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this webinar series, participants should be able to:

• recognise the evidence base of time-limited psychodynamic therapy,

• describe the foundations of the psychodynamic method and technique,

• recognise the application of time-limited therapy with adults,

• describe  the dynamics of the assessment process leading to problem formulation, 

• promote  the therapeutic alliance, and

• apply the time-limited approach to work with children, adolescents, and parents.

Presenter(s)

Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven MAPS

About the presenter(s)

Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven is a clinical psychologist and child and adolescent psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London. She is the director of the Centre for Child and Family Development in Melbourne and was previously the inaugural chief psychotherapist at the Royal Children’s Hospital. She has worked in clinical practice for over four decades and has brought a pioneering approach to child and family mental health both in the UK and in Australia. As the president of the Association for Child and Family Development she presents the Talking Child Development podcast series She has run extensive training programmes throughout Australia and overseas, now available on audio. Dr. Schmidt Neven has published widely, and her latest publication is Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: An interactive approach, published by Routledge UK.