Continuing Education Credits:
Please contact The Institute for Psychoanalytic studies at ipsinfo@ipsnewjersey.org for information about continuing education credits for social workers.
The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC – approved clock hours for events (or programs) that meet NBCC requirements. Sessions (or programs) for which NBCC – approved clock hours will be awarded are identified in the program bulletin (or in the catalogue or Web site). The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
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| Semester 1: | P/C101 - Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory/Psychopathology - Instructor: Joel Bernstein, PhD Course Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce mental health professionals to the basic psychopathologies and to show how the basic concepts of psychoanalysis, cathexis, libido, character traits, primary and secondary process, compromise formation, help form the various psychopathologies. This will be colloquium-style lectures. Case examples from practice will be examined to discover how a specific pathology develops from the underlying concepts and dynamics of psychoanalysis. Learning Objectives:
Who should attend This is a first year course for candidates beginning the program. Instructor Joel Bernstein, Ph.D. is the Founder of the Institute of the Psychoanalytic Studies. He has been in private practice in Teaneck, NJ since 1963. He is has been a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 200. Dr. Bernstein was a Co-Director of The New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and he was on the faculty of The New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis from 1970 to 2004. He also was a faculty member of Washington Square Institute for 1963 to 1969. He has been a member of NPAP since 1972. Location: 1328 River Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666 Schedule This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 10 sessions. Dates of Course 9/13/16, 9/27/16, 10/25/16, 11/8/16, 11/22/16, 12/6/16, 12/20/16, 1/10/17, 1/24/17, 2/7/17 This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #98 Course #1008 from 09/13/2016 to 09/13/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 20.
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P/C102 - Early Development - Instructor: Lorna Goldberg, LCSW Course Description: Each of the 10 classes will highlight different theories or schools of thought, including drive theory, ego psychology, object relations theory, attachment theory, relational theory, and neuroscience. Each class is 2 hours long without brakes. They also will be focusing upon psychoanalytic research over the years to see how this research has contributed to better treatment of children within institutional and family settings. Students will gain insight into how these theoretical contributors were influenced by their environment and by their unique personalities. In every class, the instructor and the students will discuss how these theories of development might unfold in their own cases and this will give participants an increased appreciation of the complexity of human behavior. It also will allow students to learn how to discuss their cases to gain peer and instructor supervision. Students will be required to prepare for each class by reading several papers and by thinking about how these theories might be applicable to their own cases. At the end of the semester, participants will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the course. The instructor will use this information to better tailor this course for her students. Learning Objectives:
Who Should attend: This is a first year course for candidates beginning the program. Instructor: Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W. has been the Dean of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. She had been in private practice since 1976, working with adults, adolescents, and children individually and in groups. Prior to that, she worked at Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. She presently is a supervisor of social workers, psychologists and other mental health professionals. From 1991 to 2004 she was Co-Director and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis. Location: 171 Meadowbrook Road, Englewood, NJ 07631 Schedule This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 10 sessions. Dates of Course: 9/20/16, 10/18/16, 11/1/16, 11/15/16, 11/29/16, 12/13/16, 1/3/17, 1/17/17, 1/31/17, 2/14/17 This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #98 Course #1009 from 09/20/2016 to 09/20/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 20.
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C103 - Assessment and Beginning Treatment - Instructor: Elana Blumenthal, LCSW This is an introductory course focusing on children and their parents entering therapy. Clinical material is focused on from the first interaction. The importance of observation is stressed. Identifying resistances that impact on obtaining information that is needed to make a meaningful assessment, and employing principals of growth and development in the interview process. The clinician will review various assessment instruments with the goal of creating a unique tool for the individual practitioner. Utilizing a formal assessment tool verses unstructured interview will be discussed. This course employs principals of social work practice of interviewing the assessing clients. The bio-psychosocial model frames the interview and assessment process. Social work practice of active listening, open ended questions during interview with clients, and identification of areas for further exploration will be illuminated. (4 clock hours)
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C104 - Pre-Latency and Younger Latency-Aged Children: Play Therapy and Fantasy - Instructor: Elana Blumenthal, LCSW This course will provide social workers with an introduction to psychoanalytic theories of play therapy and fantasy. The class will read Bettelheim’s work on fairy tales to begin to understand the multiple meanings of these stories and why they are so satisfying to children. This book will be used as a jumping off point to gain a better understanding of the unconscious meaning that children bring to the events in their lives. The instructor will focus on play therapy to show how a child’s fantasy life unfolds in play with the therapist. Both the instructor and the participants will present clinical case material to enhance the understanding of and clinical skills in working with young children. (4 clock hours)
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| Semester 2: | P/C103 - Transference and Countertransference - Instructor: William Goldberg, LCSW This highly interactive 10 session course will provide mental health professionals with an exploration of methods and concepts related to transference and countertransference in working with clients. Psychodynamic theory has demonstrated the importance of dealing with the clinicians’ emotional responses as well as those of the patient. In order to not defensively distance themselves from the patient, the clinician needs a heightened awareness of their own as well as the patients’ fears and anxieties. For effective treatment of adults, the clinician needs knowledge of the range of complex and intense emotions that are stirred up. The course will provide readings and case studies that will enhance a broader understanding of treatment of adults. (20 clock hours)
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P/C104 - Readings in Freud I - Instructors: Regina Minsky, LCSW, Mosse Burns, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MA This is the first half of a survey course of the writings of Sigmund Freud. The purpose of the course is to give an idea of the breadth of Freud’s writings. In order to gain focus we will point out the major points of each paper. The papers will be covered in more detail as they are specifically addressed in later courses. Some of the important concepts to appreciate are: the unconscious (topographic theory), structure of the psyche (structural hypothesis), and the multiple contents of symptoms (over determination); symbolic meanings, character traits; libidinal drives, psychosexual stages (oral, anal, urethral, phallic, genital), psychoeconomics, infantile sexuality, centrality of the Oedipus complex. Although Freud wrote some theoretical papers (e.g. “metapsychological papers”), ultimately his writings were based on clinical experience. (20 clock hours)
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C105 - Initial Resistances and Transference with the Latency-Aged Child Both of these courses will provide social workers with an introduction to psychoanalytic case examples underlying treatment with children and adolescents. Students will read papers written by analysts and developmental theorists. They will gain a better understanding of the practical applications of theory in their clinical work with children that will directly impact social work practice. Each class will highlight different cases and students will be expected to bring their own examples to discuss applicability. The instructor and students will discuss how these clinical examples apply to theory in relation to their own cases and its application to social work in general. Students will be required to prepare for each class by reading several papers and thinking about how psychoanalytic theory may apply to their various cases. (4 clock hours)
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C106 - Initial Resistances and Transference with the Adolescent Both of these courses will provide social workers with an introduction to psychoanalytic case examples underlying treatment with children and adolescents. Students will read papers written by analysts and developmental theorists. They will gain a better understanding of the practical applications of theory in their clinical work with children that will directly impact social work practice. Each class will highlight different cases and students will be expected to bring their own examples to discuss applicability. The instructor and students will discuss how these clinical examples apply to theory in relation to their own cases and its application to social work in general. Students will be required to prepare for each class by reading several papers and thinking about how psychoanalytic theory may apply to their various cases. (4 clock hours)
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| Semester 1: | P/C201 - Character Analysis Instructor: Joel Bernstein, PhD Course Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce mental health professionals with an understanding of the character (and character traits) as the basic functional organization of the personality, with pleasure inherent in the repetition of various character traits. Through colloquium-style lecture and case examples class members will come to appreciate character traits such as observing ego, pleasure in repetition, defenses, transference; to appreciate that these character traits are ego-syntonic (agreeable to the ego); to appreciate that the work of therapy is to render these character traits ego-dystonic. (20 clock hours) Learning Objectives:
Who Should Attend: This is a second year intermediate course for candidates in our program. Instructor Joel Bernstein, Ph.D. is the Founder of the Institute of the Psychoanalytic Studies. He has been in private practice in Teaneck, NJ since 1963. He has been a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. Dr. Bernstein was Co-Director and faculty member. of The New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis from 1970 to 2004. He was a faculty member of Washington Square Institute for 1963 to 1969 and a member of NPAP since 1972. Location: 1328 River Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666 Schedule This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 10 sessions. Dates of Course: 9/20/16, 10/18/16, 11/1/16, 11/15/16, 11/29/16, 12/13/16, 1/3/17, 1/17/17, 1/31/17, 2/14/17 This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #98 Course #1010 from 09/20/2016 to 09/20/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 20.
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P/C202 - Latency through Adolescence - Instructor: Lorna Goldberg, LCSW Course Description: This course will provide mental health professionals with an introduction to psychoanalytic theories of and clinical issues with children, adolescents, and their families. Students will be assigned readings by experienced clinicians who are dealing with a variety of symptoms that are typically handled by clinicians. The instructor will use clinical examples of her own and from the students’ cases to inform the class about how to deal with some of the difficulties that are encountered by social workers who work with children, adolescents, and their families. Students will be helped to gain some knowledge of the complexity of human behavior and begin to see how they might deal with children, adolescents and their families with empathy and respect. Learning Objectives:
Who Should Attend: This is an intermediate course in the second year of our program. Instructor: Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W. is the Dean and a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. She had been in private practice since 1976, working with adults, adolescents, and children individually and in groups. Prior to that time, she worked at the Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. She is a supervisor of social workers, psychologists and other mental health professionals. From 1991 to 2004, she was Co-director and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis. Location: 171 Meadowbrook Road, Englewood, NJ 07631 Schedule This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 10 sessions. Dates of Course 9/13/16, 9/27/16, 10/25/16, 11/8/16, 11/22/16, 12/6/16, 12/20/16, 1/10/17, 1/24/17, 2/7/17 “This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #98 Course #1011 from 09/13/2016 to 09/13/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 20.”
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C203 - Special Needs Children, Their Parents, and Their Teachers - Instructor: Rene Nussbaum, PhD The purpose of this course is to explore the value of applying psychoanalytic and psychodynamic techniques in treating youngsters with varying educational, behavioral, and emotionally disabling conditions. In addition, since addressing the issues of these youngsters involves dealing with the other important individuals in their lives, the application of these techniques within the context of child/parent/teacher relationships, will also be explored. An unpublished case study,” will be used as a clinical model for developing an integrated approach in treating challenging students. The course will include a detailed review of the classification categories published in the New Jersey State Code for Special Education: Parental Rights in Special Education (Prise), as well as an overview of psychoanalytic, ego/developmental, object relations, and self psychology theory and practice. Students will have the opportunity to discuss relevant cases and to receive guidance in applying new techniques to their current case load. (4 clock hours)
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C204 - Troubled Adolescents This course will provide social workers with an opportunity to learn from psychoanalytic case examples. This course will use both case presentations and clinical articles to look at the unique issues involved in treating adolescents who present with outwardly destructive behavior toward themselves and/or others. Work with teenagers is becoming increasingly important as clinicians realize that adolescence may be a crucial time in detecting and treating many mental health issues. Students will also read papers written by analysts and developmental theorists. They will gain a better understanding of the practical applications of theory in their clinical work with adolescents, thus being able to better assist teens and families who are experiencing difficulties unique to that specific developmental phase. Each class will highlight different cases and students will be expected to bring their own examples to discuss applicability. The instructor and students will discuss how these clinical examples apply to theory in relation to their own cases and its applications to social work in general. Students will be required to prepare for each class by reading several papers and thing about how psychoanalytic theory may apply to their various cases. (4 clock hours)
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