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THE PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER OF CALIFORNIA |
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The Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Program The program may be begun during the third year of training in The Core Curriculum, or after graduation. Graduates of other IPA-approved training institutes are welcome to apply. Other applications from persons who may have equivalent training will be evaluated for the program. The Infant, Child and Adolescent Program consists, in addition to the core curriculum, of 20 units of course work, divided into academic and clinical seminars. The Candidate is required to conduct three child/adolescent analyses, to include both genders, supervised by three different supervisors: one pre-school child, one latency child, and one adolescent. No supervisor may be the Candidate's training analyst. Each case is to be seen a minimum of four sessions a week at a frequency of one weekly supervisory session hour for a minimum of 50 hours. One child case may be counted for credit for both adult and child training. Progression procedures will be conducted by the Infant/Child/Adolescent Analytic Committee (ICAC) and conform to the progression procedures of the adult program. An oral presentation of clinical material of a child case is required and should be scheduled before the start of the third case. A subcommittee consisting of three members of the Infant/Child/Adolescent faculty is constituted. Two members are selected by the candidate, and the ICAC chair appoints the chair of the subcommittee. The candidate presents process notes from his/her work with a child covering three or four consecutive sessions of a treatment in progress. The presentation is conceived as a collegial exchange for the purpose of giving feedback and, if needed, addressing weaknesses in the work of the candidate. The subcommittee presents a written statement of its observations and recommendations to the Infant/Child/Adolescent Analysis Committee, signed by all three members. No additional final paper is required of Candidates in the Infant/Child/Adolescent Psychoanalysis Program. |