CAPCT EXTENSION PROGRAM
Introduction
to Infant-Parent Psychotherapy
A Series of 20 Online Seminars
Presented by Course Faculty:
Ella Rogalska, RP, DTATI, Dip. TCPP,
Cert. IMHS, ATPPP
Sandra Meyerovitz, MA (Social
Work) RSW, Dip. TCPP, FIPA
DATES & TIMES:
20 Mondays, October 19, 2026 - April 19, 2027
Oct. 19, 26
Nov. 9,16,23,30
Dec. 7,14
Jan. 11, 18, 25
Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22,
March 1, 8, 22
April 5, 19
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. EST
LOCATION
Seminars
held online via Zoom videoconference
PREREQUISITES
This
program is open to ALL Mental Health Professionals.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
Donald Winnicott, a British
pediatrician and psychoanalyst, made the famous statement in 1940
that has changed the way we think about infants. The Infant-Parent
Psychotherapy (IPP) is an infant/child – parent relationship led
intervention, developed by Elizabeth Tuters & Sally Doulis. This
model emphasizes pregnancy, birth and the early development of the
infant/young child within the context of relationships - past and
present, family and culture. The model of IPP is called OUR –
Observation-Understanding-Reflection – wherein play is the medium,
and change occurs through the action of observation, understanding
and reflection.
The participants will have the
opportunity to learn about the treatment model of dynamic
Infant-Parent Psychotherapy through selected reading materials and a
presentation of clinical material.
This IPP model is a treatment
intervention for parents and young children, as well as older children.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completion of the 20 seminars,
participants will:
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Become aware of the impact of
clinical work on their inner worlds;
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Begin to develop a self-reflective
capacity to inform their clinical work;
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Experience the power of the
relationship between infant/ young child and caregiver(s);
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Understand the importance and
meaning of the infant/young child's hearing, verbal communication,
gaze, movement and the use of play to inform the other about the
inner world of the observed;
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Begin to develop strategies for
thinking about the importance of assessment, formulation and
treatment of troubled infant/young child/ parent relationships;
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Begin to understand the importance
of the relationship having an effect upon relationship in the
therapeutic situation.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
Ella Rogalska
, RP, DTATI, Dip. TCPP, Cert. IMHS, ATPPP.
Ella is a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice.
Her graduate education is in psychoanalytic psychotherapy (infancy
to adulthood). Ella has a special interest in infant mental health
treatment and education. She was trained in the psychodynamic model
of Infant Parent Psychotherapy in Toronto by Sally Doulis and
Elizabeth Tuters, and is now the instructor and supervisor of
Infant-Parent Psychotherapy, a Toronto based model. As well, Ella
has an advanced training in attachment studies and a considerable
part of her practice is dedicated to attachment based treatment,
supervision, and education. Ella also enjoys teaching, and is an
instructor in the Extension Program of TPS and of the CAPCT. Ella is
an Affiliate of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society (TPS) and the
current President of the Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic
Child Therapists (CAPCT).
Sandra Meyerovitz, MA (Social Work)
RSW, Dip. TCPP, FIPA is
a registered Social Worker, Child/Adolescent and Adult
Psychotherapist, Adult Psychoanalyst, and Infant Parent
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Sandra graduated from the University
of the Witwatersrand, South Africa with a Masters degree in Social
work; the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program (TCPP), now Canadian
Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
(CICAPP); and is a graduate of the Toronto Institute for
Psychoanalysis. Sandra teaches in the Extension Programme of the
Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Adjunct Faculty for the education
programmes at St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute,(Missouri USA).
Sandra trained in the Advanced program of IPP (Infant Parent
Psychotherapy) and teaches in the programme. Sandra presented a
discussion paper on IPP at the Annual Conference of Canadian and
American Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists held in Toronto in 2022.
She also taught for the Toronto Art Therapy Institute. Sandra is a
Clinical member of CAPCT (Canadian Association for Psychoanalytic
Child Psychotherapists); and it ’ s past
Vice President. Sandra is in private practice.
COURSE FEE:
$1400
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
These
continuing education and professional development hours can be used
towards your continuing education, professional development
portfolio for your respective colleges, including the College of
Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).
For
more information and to register please contact 416.690.5464 or EMAIL
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