Most courses meet once a week for 15 weeks, at 90 minutes per session. In order to receive credit for a course, no more than three absences are permitted during a semester. In extenuating circumstances, the candidate may request from the instructor permission to do extra work as compensation for further absences.

502.0 Seminar on Ethical and Legal Issues in Treatment

This six-hour seminar is required of all students in every program. It augments the training and understanding of ethical and legal issues that are reviewed in each of the clinical courses.

503.0 Seminar on Identification and Reporting Child Abuse

This seminar is a two-hour seminar that focuses on understanding the New York State laws that control child protective service and includes understanding Article 6, Title 6 of the Social Services Law and Article 10 of the Family Court Act. Who is a mandated reporter, and how and to whom reporting of child abuse should be made, will be a focus. Definitions of forms of child abuse will be studied. Understanding the distinctions between neglect and physical and mental abuse will be highlighted, and the recognition of these abuses will be emphasized. For example, participants will learn to identify the physical and behavioral indicators of abuse. Key legal concepts of abuse will be discussed including nonaccidental injuries, serious physical injuries, and sexual exploitation. Participants will be able to distinguish among various behavioral and environmental characteristics of abusive caretakers.

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Additional Required Courses for the New York State Licensure-Qualifying Psychoanalysis Program

505.1 Sociocultural Influences on Development and Psychopathology I

This is the first of a two-part course that focuses on culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, and religion and how these factors can enhance normal personality development and, at times, lead to psychopathological digressions. Adaptation of assessment and treatment techniques with these differing cultural groups will be addressed in assigned readings, class discussion and clinical case material.

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505.2 Sociocultural Influences on Development and Psychopathology II

The second half of a two-semester course that commenced with 505.1, this course will examine the concepts of culture, race, class, and gender/sexual identity and how these factors challenge the analyst's empathy for, and clinical responsiveness to, his/her patients. The influences of these factors on human development, personality formation, and psychopathology will be explored in the writings of psychoanalytic theorists such as Freud, Kohut, and other more contemporary authors. Clinical presentations will be discussed in order to make the theory clinically relevant.

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