Requirements for Training in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis
IPA Recognition
1. The IPA will recognise Child and Adolescent
training programmes and Integrated Training programmes run by IPA Constituent
Organisations or Institutes which meet the requirements outlined in this
document. The list of IPA recognised Child
and Adolescent training programmes and Integrated Training programmes is
published in its Roster, and on its website.
2. Any IPA Member who subsequently graduates
through one of these recognised programmes will be automatically recognised as
a Child and Adolescent analyst by the IPA following receipt of this information
from Constituent Organisations or Institutes.
Such IPA Members, qualified additionally as Child and Adolescent
analysts, are identified as such in the IPA Roster and will be issued with, or
may apply for, an IPA certificate confirming this recognition.
3. It is expected that those undertaking Child
and Adolescent training programmes run by IPA Constituent Organisations or
Institutes will already have completed their adult training and are thus IPA
Members. Child and Adolescent training
programmes may however be conducted by Constituent Organisations and Institutes
in parallel with adult training programmes (hereafter referred to as “Integrated
Training programmes”). Graduates from such programmes cannot be recognised by
the IPA as Child and Adolescent analysts until the entire programme is
completed (ie. both the adult and child and adolescent components of the training))
and the candidate has become an IPA Member.
The
IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP)
4. The IPA Board has delegated authority jointly
to COCAP and the Education and Oversight Committee to:
- Consider applications for IPA recognition of
Child and Adolescent training programmes and Integrated Training
programmes run by IPA Constituent Organisations or Institutes, and to make
recommendations to the Board as to whether or not such training programmes
meet the IPA’s requirements and should be recognised. (See paragraphs 8 to 13 below.) These
applications will be reviewed by a joint subcommittee and initial
recommendations made by COCAP on
behalf of both committees.
- Review under the IPA’s Equivalency Procedures
individual applications for recognition as a Child and Adolescent analyst for
IPA Members, who completed training programmes run by IPA Constituent
Organisations or Institutes before they were recognised by the IPA, or
other training programmes run by organisations which are not IPA
Constituent Organisations or Institutes, and to make recommendations to
the Board as to whether such applicants meet the IPA’s requirements and
should be recognised as Child and Adolescent analysts. (See paragraphs 14 to 19 below.) COCAP
will be responsible for these recommendations.
- Encourage Constituent Organisations or
Institutes to establish Child and Adolescent training programmes and/or Integrated
Training programmes which meet the requirements in this document, and to
provide such assistance as may be requested.
Requirements
for Child and Adolescent Training Programmes and Integrated Training Programmes
5. The IPA’s requirements
outlined in this document are minimum requirements. Constituent Organisations and Institutes are
free to exceed these minimum requirements as they judge appropriate. Elements of the training models adopted by
Constituent Organisations and Institutes which exceed the IPA minimum
requirements will be regarded as consistent with IPA requirements.
6. The Courses and
Seminars, and Supervisions sections of Child and Adolescent training programmes
and Integrated Training programmes run by IPA Constituent Organisations or
Institutes must meet the requirements equivalent to those accepted by the IPA
for the purpose of training in adult analysis and outlined in the Procedural
Code entry ‘Requirements for Qualification and Admission to IPA
Membership’. It is assumed that a
candidate’s analysis will have been conducted as part of the candidate’s
training to be an adult analyst (or as part of an Integrated Training
programme).
7. In addition,
training programmes in Child and Adolescent analysis and Integrated Training
Programmes must include the following:
- two supervised cases
under age 20 at different stages of development (pre-school, latency,
adolescence), and wherever possible of different sexes;
- treatment of these
supervised cases for a period of at least a year; at the same frequency
required by the Constituent Society for adult psychoanalysis;
- supervision and
evaluation normally conducted weekly for at least 40 sessions per year by
analysts who have been designated for these functions by their Constituent
Organisations or Institutes; and
- clinical and theoretical
seminars in Child and Adolescent psychoanalysis, including development,
psychopathology and technique, and including those ethical principles and
procedures which apply specifically to the treatment of children and
adolescents.
- Integrated Training programmes should have i) required
core seminars and courses designed specifically for candidates in the
Integrated Training track, and ii) elective courses and seminars that are also
open to candidates not in the Integrated Training track.
Click here for list of Constituent Organisations or Institutes with a child and adolescent training programme approved by the IPA.
Application
for IPA Recognition of Child and Adolescent Training Programmes
8. Applications by IPA Constituent Organisations
or Institutes for IPA recognition of their Child and Adolescent training
programmes and/or Integrated Training programmes should be initially addressed
to the Chair of COCAP at ipa@ipa.org.uk. Applications will be acknowledged.
9. COCAP will assess such applications against
the requirements outlined above. COCAP
may seek further information from the applicant organisations as required. COCAP will make a recommendation to the Board
as to whether the applicant organisation’s Child and Adolescent training
programme should be recognised by the IPA.
10. For
applications pertaining to Integrated Training programmes, COCAP will work
together with the Education and Oversight Committee to review the application. A review subcommittee, consisting of members from
each committee (with appropriate regional representation and expertise) will be
formed to review the application. COCAP
will eventually make a recommendation to the Board (on behalf of both
committees) as to whether the applicant organisation’s Integrated Training
programme should be recognised by the IPA.
11. The IPA Board will consider COCAP’s
recommendations and either approve or refer back such applications. The IPA will inform applicant organisations
why applications are rejected either by COCAP or the Board, and state the
reasons.
12. Applicant organisations have the right of
appeal to the IPA if their application is rejected. The President may appoint an ad hoc Committee
to review such appeals.
13. Constituent Organisations or Institutes whose
training programmes are recognised by the IPA are expected to maintain the
requirements outlined in this document, in accordance with the IPA’s
Rules. Such training programmes will be
subject to any oversight by the IPA as outlined in the Procedural Code entry
‘IPA Oversight of Educational Requirements’.
Individual
Applications for Recognition as a Child and Adolescent Analyst
14. IPA Members, who
- completed Child and Adolescent training
programmes or Integrated Training programmes run by IPA Constituent
Organisations or Institutes before such programmes were officially
recognised by the IPA as meeting the requirements outlined in this
document, or
- completed other Child and Adolescent training
programmes or Integrated Training programmes run by organisations which are
not IPA Constituent Organisations or Institutes (such as the Anna Freud
Centre in London, or the Hanna Perkins Center in Cleveland),
may
still apply for recognition as IPA Child and Adolescent analysts for review
under the IPA’s Equivalency Procedures.
Such applications should be addressed to the Chair of COCAP at ipa@ipa.org.uk. Applications will be acknowledged.
15. Applications will normally only be accepted
from IPA Members who have graduated from Child and Adolescent training
programmes or Integrated Training programmes run by Constituent Organisations
or Institutes, where those training programmes are now recognised by the IPA,
or where the Constituent Organisations or Institutes are applying for IPA recognition.
16. COCAP will assess such applications against
the IPA’s Equivalency Procedures. COCAP
may seek further information from the applicants as required. COCAP will make a recommendation to the Board
as to whether such applicants should be recognised as Child and Adolescent
analysts by the IPA.
17. The IPA Board will consider COCAP’s
recommendations and either approve or refer back such applications. The IPA will inform applicants why
applications are rejected either by COCAP or the Board, and state the reasons.
18. Applicants have the right of appeal to the
IPA if their application is rejected.
The President may appoint an ad hoc Committee to review such appeals.
19. IPA Members recognised as Child and
Adolescent analysts are expected to maintain the appropriate requirements
outlined in the IPA’s Rules and its Procedural Code.
Change Log
Approved by Executive Council July 1999.
Revision to include frequency of sessions approved by the Executive Council July 2000.
Complete revision of the document approved by the Board in principle in January 2007, with final approval in March 2007
Addition to paragraph 7b. to clarify that the frequency should be the same as that required for adult training approved by Board July 2009
Changes to implement the Integrated Training track approved
by the Board June 2016
*This change record is for background information only and does not form part of the Procedural Code. If there is any conflict between a statement in the Procedural Code and a statement in this change record, the change record will be disregarded.
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