Child and Adolescent Anxiety Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Sabina Preter MD, PhD, was educated in Europe (France and Germany) and in New York City. She is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. She is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, teaches and serves as Director of Child Clinical Services at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute's Treatment Center.Barbara Milrod, M.D. is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and child psychoanalyst who has done pioneering work in manualizing brief, testable forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy in anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders. She has served as Principal Investigator on a number of randomized controlled clinical trials, and has worked on three clinical trials that demonstrated efficacy for psychodynamic psychotherapy for panic disorder.Theodore Shapiro is Professor at the Weill-Cornell Medical College and a practicing Psychoanalyst and Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist . He is a co principleinvestigator on a study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. He has more than 250 scholarly and research publications and is author of 7 books and edited the JAPA from 1983-94. He has received the Rado, Brill ,Hartmann and Philip Wilson awards and is a training/supervising analyst at the NYPSI.

• Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. Rationale for CAPP1.2. Psychoanalysis, Dynamic Psychotherapy and Symptom Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy: Background and Comparisons 1.3. CAPP: Modified and developmentally adapted version of Panic - Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PFPP)1.4. Cases: 14-year-old Marie and 13-year-old Tom1.5. Overview of the 3 phases of treatment Chapter 2: Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy 2.1. Theory and Clinical Issues 2.2. Reflective Functioning2.3. Case: 7-year-old Miranda2.4. Summary Chapter 3: How to make sense of children's communications in psychotherapy: A walk through the developmental stages 3.1. Introduction and Theory3.1.1. Preverbal Communication3.1.2. Language and Fantasy3.1.3. Development of Separation Anxiety3.1.4. Reflecting on Others 3.2. The playing, dependent child: Normally Developing 2 ½-year-old Abby and 5-year-old Emily in Brief Therapy 3.3. The talking, autonomous child: 7-year-old Alice3.4. The Pre-teen and Adolescent Youth: 11-year-old Grace and 16-year-old Laura3.5. Summary Chapter 4: The three phases of CAPP: opening, middle, and end 4.1. Beginning Therapy: CAPP Opening phase4.2. Cases: 6-year-old Sally and 16-year-old Laura 4.3. Opening phase: Tom 4.4. CAPP Middle phase 4.5. Cases: 7-year-old Max, 8-year-old Paula, 10-year-old Matt, 10-year-old Jim, 9-year-old Lilly 4.6. Middle phase: Tom 4.7. CAPP Termination phase4.8. Cases: 15-year-old Charlie, 8-year-old Amy 4.9. Termination phase: Tom 4.10. Summary Chapter 5: Including Parents of Children and Adolescents in Dynamic Psychotherapy of Anxiety 5.1. Theory and Clinical Issues5.2. Cases: 7-year-old Wendy, 7 year-old Annie, 13-year-old Jimmy5.3. Summary Chapter 6: The Anxiety Disorders 6.1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Case Vignette6.1.1. Symptoms, Signs and Diagnostic Considerations6.1.2. Psychodynamic Factors and Conflicts6.1.3. Treatment: Transdiagnostic Techniques and Specific Adaptations6.1.4. Case: 7-year-old Gary 6.2. Social Anxiety Disorder with Case Vignette6.2.1. Symptoms, Signs and Diagnostic Considerations 6.2.2. Psychodynamic Factors and Conflicts6.2.3. Treatment: Transdiagnostic Techniques and Specific Adaptations6.2.4. Cases: 15-year-old John and 18-year-old Brian 6.3. Separation Anxiety Disorder with Case Vignette6.3.1. Symptoms, Signs and Diagnostic Considerations6.3.2. Psychodynamic Factors and Conflicts6.3.3. Treatment: Transdiagnostic Techniques and Specific Adaptations6.3.4. Case: 8-year-old Marissa 6.4. Panic Disorder with Case Vignette6.4.1. Symptoms, Signs and Diagnostic Considerations6.4.2. Psychodynamic Factors and Conflicts6.4.3. Treatment: Transdiagnostic Techniques and Specific Adaptations6.4.4. Case: 18-year-old William 6.5. Agoraphobia and Phobic Avoidance with Case Vignette6.5.1. Symptoms, Signs and Diagnostic Considerations6.5.2. Psychodynamic Factors and Conflicts6.5.3. Treatment: Transdiagnostic Techniques and Specific Adaptations6.5.4. Case: 8-year-old Nina 6.6. (Co-morbid) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with Case Vignette6.6.1. Symptoms, Signs and Diagnostic Considerations 6.6.2. Psychodynamic Factors and Conflicts6.6.3. Treatment: Transdiagnostic Techniques and Specific Adaptations6.6.4. Case: 16-year-old Amber Chapter 7: Course of Marie's treatment: opening, middle, and end phase 7.1. Evaluation, Opening Phase, and Identification of Central Dynamism7.2. Middle phase7.3. Termination Phase7.4. Summary