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A unique feature of our didactics is the Harvard Consolidated Program. In this program, for both the first and second years of training, all the fellows in the Harvard-affiliated child psychiatry training programs (MGH/McLean, Children's Hospital and Cambridge Health Alliance) come together to participate in a 3-hour didactic session made up of two core seminars, Normal Development and Developmental Psychopathology.

First-Year Summer Seminars

Research and Scholarly Activities - Nick Carson, MD
Systems Issues - Joel Goldstein, MD
Normal Development - Susannah Sherry, MD
Introduction to Child Psychiatric Illness - Christine Wittmann, MD, and Theo Murray, MD
Pragmatics of Child Psychiatry - Sandra DeJong, MD, and CHA Faculty
Introduction to Pediatric Psychopharmacology - Sandra DeJong, MD

First-Year Seminars: September - June

Clinical Scholarship (with second-years) - Nick Carson, MD, Sandra DeJong, MD

Harvard Consolidated Program:

Normal Development - Maria Sauzier, MD, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, PhD, Enrico Mezzacappa, MD, and Mireya Nadal, MD

Introduction to Pediatric Psychopathology - Maria Sauzier, MD and Harvard faculty

Introduction to Child Evaluation:

- Setting the Frame - John Wechter, EdD
- Play - Margaret "Polly" Gean, MD
- Trauma - Maria Sauzier, MD and Glenn Saxe, MD

School C/L - Nancy Rappaport, MD
Medical C/L - CHA Faculty
Substance Abuse - Ranna Parekh, MD
Forensics - Barbara Hauser, LICSW, Adam Rosen, JD, PhD, and Stephen Porter, MD
Parenting - Susannah Sherry, MD, and Ann Hess, MD
Family Therapy - Jill Harkaway, EdD, and Carol Becker, PhD
Pediatric Psychopharmacology - Sandra DeJong, MD, and visiting faculty

Second-Year Summer Seminars

Administrative Issues - Sandra DeJong, MD
Learning How to Teach - Sandra DeJong, MD
Culture and Community - Xenia Johnson, MD
Infancy and Attachment: Clinical Implications - Sarah Birss, MD, and Ann Epstein, MD
Integrated Child Psychiatric Assessment - Judy Howe, LICSW

Second Year Seminars: September - June

Clinical Scholarship (with first-years), Nick Carson, MD, and Sandra DeJong, MD
Integrating Theory and Practice - Anna Ornstein, MD
School Supervision - Nancy Rappaport, MD
Group Supervision - Adele Pressman, MD
Play - Peter Chubinsky, MD, and Tim Dugan, MD
Families in Transition - Cindy Telingator, MD
Continuous Psychotherapy Case Conference - Neal Kass, MD, and Cindy Telingator, MD

Forensics Seminar:

Divorce - John Baker, PhD, and Sherry Moss, MA
Transitions to Practice - Joel Goldstein, MD

Psychotherapy Seminar:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Jeanne Strassburger, PhD
  
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Peter Chubinsky, MD, Timothy Dugan, MD
• Clinical Integration and Formulation - John Wechter, EdD

In addition to the above seminars, first- and second-year fellows meet at least monthly with the training directors to discuss training issues and meet monthly with a facilitator Laurie Raymond, MD, for a peer support group.

Family Therapy Training, CHA

Family Therapy is often a core component of any successful psychiatric treatment of a child or adolescent. The guidelines of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education, the Practice Parameters of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the recommendations of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on the Family all underscore the role of working with families. To this end, the Child and Adolescent Training Program at Cambridge Health Alliance offers a wide range of Family Therapy training opportunities. These opportunities aim to provide residents with a basic conceptual understanding of family therapy as well as a range of experiences across treatment settings with different kinds of families and family issues.

In the first year, residents are required to participate in a year-long seminar in Family Therapy which introduces Family Therapy theory, assessment, and intervention. The seminar consists of didactics and observation of family consultations using a one-way mirror. The focus is on acquiring basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes in working with family systems. This seminar is taught by Jill Harkaway, Ed.D. and Carol Becker, Ph.D. In the second year an elective advanced seminar is available. This seminar, taught by Jill Harkaway and Cynthia Mittelmeier, Ph.D., provides clinical training in Family Therapy through case consultation and/or live supervision using a one-way mirror. In addition, an elective in clinical training, utilizing live supervision with a one-way mirror is available to second year residents. Case supervision is also offered by all members of the faculty.

Residents also participate in inpatient Family Consultations conducted on both the Child Assessment Unit and the Adolescent Assessment Unit, by Barbara Okun, Ph.D., and Cynthia Mittlemeier, Ph.D.