Understanding Children who Struggle with Feelings and Behaviors with Leon Hoffman, M.D. January 16, 2019, 8:00 – 9:30 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
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When children struggle they need to feel that the adults in their lives can make sense of them and do not dismiss them as impossible children who make everyone’s life more difficult. If children struggle a great deal they need to start experiencing that others do not see them exclusively through the prism of the difficulties and disruption they create but rather are mindful of their potential. In this discussion we will address:
The importance of paying attention and trying to understand the unspoken needs of children
How we can ascertain a child’s internal experience
The notion that all behavior has meaning
Ideas for this topic were stimulated, in part, by A. Ionas Sapountzis (2018) Revisiting Bion’s “Notes on Thinking”: Implications for School Psychologists, Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 17:3, 187-197, DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2018.1492821 and Leon Hoffman & Carrie Catapano (2015) Emotions Influence Cognition, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 69:1, 296-315.
Leon Hoffman, M.D. is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Training and Supervising Analyst in adult, child, and adolescent analysis; co-Director, Pacella Research Center at NYPSI (New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute); Faculty, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief Psychiatrist, West End Day School in NYC.
He has published the Manual for Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children with Externalizing Behaviors (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach, co-authored with Timothy Rice and with Tracy Prout. A clinical trial using the manual has been underway at Yeshiva University’s School-Clinical Child Psychology Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, with Tracy Prout as Principal Investigator.
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