Program Goals

Psychoanalytic child therapists trained in the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program are unique in the fact that they attempt to examine the inner world of the child and to understand the child’s organized ways of thinking, feeling and reacting.

In the three years of training, leading to an advanced certificate in child psychotherapy:

• Candidates will learn to integrate psychoanalytic theory as it has evolved for over a century, with the discoveries of contemporary observational research in infant and child development.
• Candidates will come to understand how temperament and infant - caregiver relationships interact to affect personality development and relational patterns.
• Candidates will learn about the common presenting problems in child psychotherapy, therapeutic action, and the therapeutic relationship.

Important Notice

The next 4-year program is beginning in September 2012.

For more information or an application package, please contact:

Suzanne Pearen
Administrative Coordinator

Phone:
416-690-5464
Fax:
416-690-2746
E-mail:
Suzanne Pearen

Please click here for more detail about the 4-year program structure and clinical requirements.

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