CAPCT Presents
30th Annual Day in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Dr. Brent Willock, Ph.D.

Understanding and Working with Extraordinarily Challenging, Aggressive, Impulsive, Defiant Children:

Lessons from the Trenches

Saturday, June 11, 2011
Northrop Frye Hall, University of Toronto

This event is a MOC approved group learning activity; participants may claim 1 credit per hour of attendance.

These complex, aggressive, conduct-disordered, ODD children present formidable challenges to anyone trying to help them. Sometimes they seem hell-bent on destroying not only things, but also our will to treat them.
 
In this workshop, we will enter an aggressive child's mind, exploring conscious and unconscious aspects of his inner world to shed light on the anxieties, dynamics, defenses and underlying developmental and relational issues propelling unruly, problematic behaviour. The clinical material that will be presented comes from intensive psychotherapy.

We will also attend to the therapeutic role of parents, teachers, child-care workers, and other professionals, and the destabilizing impact these children have on them.
 
While countertransference challenges can seem insurmountable, they are lessened significantly through understanding the origins and meaning of these problematic behaviours, and grasping what needs to occur in treatment to optimize chances for a good outcome.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: DR. BRENT WILLOCK

Brent Willock earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology, and practiced and taught at the Children's Psychiatric Hospital, University of Michigan Medical Centre. In Toronto, he was Chief Psychologist, Hincks Treatment Centre (1986 - 1995), Adjunct Faculty, York University, and Associate Faculty Member, University of Toronto.

Author/Editor of several award-winning books, Dr. Willock has also contributed articles on aggressive children to journals and books, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

He has received many honours, including the first Perkins Award co-sponsored by the Orthogenic School, University of Chicago, and the child psychoanalytic program, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis (for "outstanding application of psychoanalytic theory and insight to the understanding and treatment of severely emotionally disturbed children).

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