Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents

Sergio V. Delgado, MD Dr. Delgado is Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychoanalysis at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Delgado is a graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Nuevo Leon, and the Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry programs of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences. He also completed training as a supervising and training analyst in adult and child psychoanalysis at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis. Currently, Dr. Delgado is a adult and child supervising and training analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. He currently is the Medical Director of the Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Delgado is the Co-Chair of the Psychotherapy Committee to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He is the President for the Cincinnati-Dayton Regional Council of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He also serves as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Oral Board Examiner for American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Delgado actively teaches in the adult and child psychiatry training programs, and is Director of psychotherapy for the child and adolescent training program. He is a frequent recipient of numerous teaching awards for his helpful and pragmatic teaching and supervising style. Dr. Delgado is frequently sought for super vision and consultation involving difficult psychiatric cases. He is a strong advocate for the integration of individual psychotherapy, family psychotherapy and psychpharmacologic interventions in the treatment of patients. Dr. Delgado has authored multiple journal articles and book chapters about the integration of psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatments in youth, on the assessment and treatment of learning disorders, and on psychological development and intersubjectivity-based interventions in adolescents. Dr. Delgado is the Founder and Director of the relational advanced psychotherapy program (RAPP) in Cincinnati.

Introduction.- Traditional One-Person Psychology.- Two-Person Relational Psychology for the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist.- Key Pioneers in Two-Person Relational Psychology.- Key Concepts in Two-Person Relational Psychology.- Deconstruction of Traditional One-Person Psychology Concepts.- The Neurodevelopmental and Neurofunctional basis of Intersubjectivity.- Putting it together: The 4 Pillars of the Contemporary Diagnostic Interview.- Setting the Frame in Two-Person Relational Psychotherapy.- Two-Person Relational Psychotherapy - Infants and Preschool Age Children.- Two-Person Relational Psychotherapy Elementary School Age Youth.- Two-Person Relational Psychotherapy Middle School Age Youth.- Two-Person Relational Psychotherapy -- High School Age Adolescents.- Supervision in Two-Person Relational Psychotherapy.- Appendix A: Developmental Milestones.-Appendix B: Contemporary Diagnostic Interview Case Formulation Tool.

"The purpose is to present new concepts based on contemporary psychodynamic theory to help clinicians better understand and approach young patients in psychotherapy, and to provide a source of information on contemporary psychodynamic theory that they might apply in clinical practice. The audience includes child and adolescent psychiatry trainees, as well as experienced clinicians, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and social workers. ... There are not enough books on this subject, and this one is well researched and current." (Nikita Pant, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2015)