Focus On – The Parent-Child Relationship Competencies

Maria Seymour St John, PhD, MFT

Thursday Apr 30, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM, five sessions until May 28

Conducted via Zoom

This course will include an introduction to the Parent-Child Relationship Competencies framework and opportunities to apply it in individual adult and child work as well as in dyadic treatment.

flyerWinnicott urged that we recognize and celebrate of the importance of “ordinary good enough” parenting. But how do we understand this fundamental yet elusive matrix? What do we seek to observe or glean regarding its presence, texture, and dynamics? How do we appreciate the cultural variability of parenting practice given the constriction of dominant theoretical frames? And how do we intervene in ways that heal relational wounds in their individual and historical specificity? The Parent-Child Relationship Competencies (St John, 2010) offers a framework for conceptualizing the back-and-forth, bi-directional nature of early parent-child relationships, and for considering areas of strength and vulnerability for each parent-child dyad in the present or historically. This five-week course will include an introduction to the Parent-Child Relationship Competencies (PCRC) framework and opportunities to apply it in individual adult and child work as well as in dyadic treatment. The course will be equally relevant for those working in private practice and community mental health settings, and will explore the rich yield issuing from exchange across this divide.

Required text: Focusing on Relationships: An Effort that Pays

Registration by April 14 INCLUDES book. For registration after April 14, participants should order book separately. To order: www.zerotothree.org/PCRCbook


CE Credits offered: 7.5

Course Objectives

After completing this course participants will be able to:

  1. List the 20 Parent-Child Relationship Competencies (St. John, 2010).
  2. Draw on understandings of infant-parent communication in order to better read and make use of non-verbal clinical exchanges.
  3. Identify signs of individual PCRCs that may be (or may have been) strained, impaired, or absent in particular parent-child dyads in order to pinpoint important areas of intervention.
  4. Develop the ability to identify in individual treatment when a referral for parent-child treatment may be warranted.
  5. Practice translating relationship-focused work into the individually-focused terms often necessary for complying with documentation and billing requirements.
  6. Trace the interactive pathways whereby infants, children and parents are raced, gendered, classed, etc. so as to better support clients’ self-awareness and self-determination.
  7. Apply the PCRC lens via reflective exercises in order to avoid unfortunate counter-transference enactments resulting from the clinician’s unresolved early losses and conflicts.
  8. Advance clinical skill by cultivating capacities that draw on Winnicott’s notion of the “facilitating environment.”

Contact: 415-288-4050 — 530 Bush St, Suite 700, San Francisco CA USA — pincsf@gmail.com

The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PINC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Visit pincsf.org/policies for registration, policies and disclaimers.

When
April 30th, 2020 7:30 PM
Location
530 Bush Street
Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94108-94108
United States
Event Fee(s)
Seminar
General Admission $ 220.00
PINC Members $ 180.00
Students and Candidates $ 145.00
(7.5) CE Credits $ 67.50