PRE-REQUISITES
Applicants must have a professional mental health qualification and be a member of their regulating college. Applicants are required to submit a statement about their desire to take this course, and must be interested in psychoanalytic principles and in learning, and have opportunity to work with infants/young children and their parents. Applicants will be contacted by the course leaders.

FEE
$1,250

ABOUT THIS COURSE
This 25-week seminar is led by 2 teachers simultaneously and replicates dyadic interactions. This IPP model is based on learning from clinical experience. In particular, the fulcrum of the learning will be based on the principles if Infant Observation. The participants have an opportunity to directly observe and think about pregnancy, birth, early development of the infant /young child, and the response of the primary caregiver – in terms of attachment theory. Participants will become aware of the developing relationship between parent and infant/young child, the child’s capacities, personality development, emergence of issues, and parental strengths and characteristics which might contribute to possible psychopathology in the relationship. This treatment model is psychoanalytically oriented Infant-Parent Psychotherapy (IPP), which emphasizes early development within the context of relationships, (past and present) as well as the family and culture. The intervention focuses on this relationship to enable a secure attachment.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Elizabeth Tuters MSW, RSW, FIPA, is a Social Worker; Child/Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalyst, and Infant-Parent Psychotherapist. She is the Co-Director (with Sally Doulis) of the Infant Mental Health Studies Certificate Training, (known as Infant-Parent Psychotherapy, IPP), that was initially offered through the HincksDellcrest Children’s Mental Health Centre/Institute, and thereafter as an Extension Program of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. Now the IPP course is being run by the Extension Program of the Canadian Association for Psychoanalytic Child Therapists (CAPCT). This IPP model was originally developed while she was a Team Leader of the Infant/ Family Assessment & Treatment Team at the Hincks Dellcrest Centre/Institute. Elizabeth was past President of the Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (CICAPP); and current member of the Association for Child Analysis (ACP); Fellow, ZeroToThree (Washington, DC). Past officer of the Board of Directors of World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) serving for 14 years; current officer of the Board of Directors of Canadian Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (CAPCT) for 6 years. Supervisor/Faculty, CICAPP. Faculty, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. Elizabeth has presented and published papers on Infant Observation, Clinical Psychoanalysis, and Infant-Parent Psychotherapy.

Sally Doulis, MSW, RSW, Dip.TCPP is a Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist, in private practice with post-academic training in (1) intensive child psychotherapy at the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Programme (TCPP), now called CICAPP; (2) marital therapy, with Dr. Kas Tuters and Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples with an Emotional Injury with Dr. Leslie Greenberg; and 3) High Conflict in Custody Disputes with the OCL (Office of the Children’s Lawyer, Toronto). Sally is a Co-Creator of Infant-Parent Psychotherapy (IPP) Intervention training developed at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre. Sally was Past-President of the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Programme (TCPP), past Faculty and Supervisor, Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (CICAPP). Sally has worked in the field of children’s mental health as a therapist, supervisor and teacher for many years. She served as past Head of the Individual Psychotherapy Program at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre. In private practice she provides individual (child, adolescent and adult) psychotherapy, infant-parent psychotherapy with the under fives and their families, marital therapy, and counseling to divorcing families. Sally previously provided custody/access assessment through the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.

Carol-Jane Parker is a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice at the Willow Centre in Toronto. The Willow Centre was established by Carol-Jane and her partner and two other colleagues in 1999 to provide psychoanalytically informed psychological assessments and psychotherapy to infants, children, adolescents and their families. The Willow Centre Child and Family Foundation was later established in 2001 to raise funds for families with complex mental health needs who were unable to access affordable or appropriate services in their communities. Carol-Jane began her career in the Children’s Mental Health field as a childcare worker at an innovative residential treatment centre in Ontario in 1969 after graduating with BA in Sociology and Political Science from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She later returned to graduate school and completed her Master’s Degree (M.Ed.) and the course work for her Doctoral Degree (Ed.D.) in clinical psychology specializing in early childhood at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. During a post-doctoral graduate clinical internship at the Hincks’s Dellcrest Centre, Carol-Jane was introduced to infant observation and infant parent psychotherapy and later participated as a clinician in a federally funded, 3-year research study evaluating the effectiveness of two models of InfantParent Psychotherapy. Carol-Jane’s passion for working with infants and their parents has continued and for the last three years she has been an active participant in the Infant Parent Psychotherapy (IPP) extension program initially offered by the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society under the direction of Elizabeth Tuters and Sally Doulis. Carol-Jane is one of the original members of the International Parent-Infant Study Day, which meets annually at the Anna Freud Centre in London, England. She is also a guest member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, a member of The World Association of Infant Mental Health and the Institute for Therapeutic Assessment in Austin, Texas, the current President of the Willow Centre Child and Family Foundation and a member of the Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists.

Dannette Graham is a Registered Psychotherapist, CRPO with Master’s Level education and training i Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and 34 years in private psychotherapy practic working with children, adolescents, parents and families. Faculty Member, Supervisor, Graduate (CICAPP): Canadian Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (formerly TCPP) Past President and Clinical Member: (CAPCT)Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists Guest Member (TPS): Toronto Psychoanalytic Society. Faculty member: (CAPA) China Americ Psychoanalytic Alliance. Dannette has been an active 3-year participant in the Advanced Infant Paren Psychotherapy (IPP) work-study seminar at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society under the direction o Elizabeth Tuters and Sally Doulis. Dannette also attended a 4 year advanced seminar, Child Therapist Working with Adults at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society under the direction of Dr. Donald Carveth Dannette has presented at the International Psychoanalytic Association Conference; the Toront Psychoanalytic Society; the Centre for Psychoanalysis, San Francisco; the Canadian Association fo Psychoanalytic Child Therapists; the Toronto District School Board, Profession Days; and the Gowling Family Law Department.