• PSYCHOLOGY OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION (100:117) (Tijana Mandic, PhD)
  
  The course will introduce students to the basic concepts of therapeutic communication: information, communication stimuli-communication response, interaction and transaction, systemic patterns of communication, and double binds in communication. Students will learn how to create an optimal psychotheraperutic strategy for the specific client and interventions and techniques to enable the optimum strategy. The course will include the use of verbal and non-verbal communication, creating, maintaining and ending the bonding process through communication, and follow up of the chosen strategy.
   

• MODELS OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC CHANGE (300:317)
  (Tijana Mandic, PhD)
  
  Students will learn to understand and balance the complex nature of the change/stability process including pitfalls of the changing process. Students will learn to understand and work with the client's resistance to change. The course provides an overview of the diversity of the changing process (e.g. differentiating, enabling and triggering change, understanding the different qualitity among oppositional, relational and essential personality changes). Seven basic models and myths of change, optimal to resolving different pathologies: (Salome, Dionysis, Phoenix, Brutus, Nemesis, Pygmalion and Chimera) will be included as well as the Meta models of change.
   

• DIAGNOSES, ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT DISORDERS      (100:132)
  (Silvia Juarez-Marazzo, LCSW, NCPsyA.)
  
  This contemporary approach to one of the Institute's fundamental courses, will provide a comprehensive overview of an Adlerian theoretical perspective integrated into a model of psychotherapeutic treatment of children, adolescents and their families. It will also provide an overview of childhood development, techniques of psychosocial assessment, and a familiarization with DSM-IV. Included will be an historical perspective on Alfred Adler and his work with children, case presentations for diagnostic assessment, psychopathology of childhood, essential elements of play therapy and the Adlerian approach to play therapy. Students will learn the Adlerian approach to family therapy and to parenting training. The course will also include the Adlerian approach to treating adolescents including intervention, interpretatation, resistance, transference and counter transference and will use case vignettes.

FIRST YEAR, FALL SEMESTER:

100:100 -- BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ADLER'S INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY 

100:110 -- WORKSHOP IN BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ADLER'S INDIVIDUAL  PSYCHOLOGY 

100:117 --  PSYCHOLOGY OF THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION

100:111R -- COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENTAL AND PERSONALITY THEORIES 

FIRST YEAR, SPRING SEMESTER:

100:125 -- LIFE STYLE DIAGNOSIS

100:112 -- GROUP EXPERIENCE

100:150 -- DREAM INTERPRETATION

100:145 -- FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

100:132 -- DIAGNOSIS, ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT DISORDERS

100:160 -- INITIAL INTERVIEWS – INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING: THE ADOLESCENT, COLLEGE STUDENT AND OLDER PERSON

100:155 -- PSYCHODRAMA

SECOND YEAR, FALL SEMESTER:

200:205 -- THE BEGINNING OF THERAPY

200:215 -- AN ADLERIAN APPROACH TO TREATING COUPLES

200:216 -- POETRY THERAPY

200:220 -- NEUROSES

200:225 -- THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

200:260 -- EAST, WEST AND BEYOND (ADLERIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND EASTERN THOUGHT)

SECOND YEAR, SPRING SEMESTER:

200:221 -- ADLER FOR THE 21^st CENTURY

200:240 -- DREAMS AND EARLY RECOLLECTIONS

200:210 -- PSYCHOPATHY – PSEUDOPSYCHOPATHY

200:255 -- ADJUNCTIVE THERAPIES: ART, MUSIC AND DANCE THERAPY

200:250/300 -- CONTINUOUS CASE SEMINAR FOR MATRICULATED STUDENTS

350/400;450 -- CONTINUOUS CASE SEMINAR FOR MATRICULATED STUDENTS

THIRD YEAR, FALL SEMESTER:

300:340 -- GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS

300:310 -- PERSONALITY DISORDERS

300:312 -- PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES

300:317 -- MODELS OF THERAPEUTIC CHANGE

300:330 -- PSYCHOSES

THIRD YEAR, SPRING SEMESTER:
300:315 -- DIFFICULT PERSONALITIES: BORDERLINE, NARCISSISTIC,   MANIC-DEPRESSIVE, PSYCHOSOMATIC DISTURBANCES  

300:311 -- SEMINAR ON CURRENT ISSUES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

300:318 -- EATING DISORDERS: ANOREXIA NERVOSA, BULIMIA

300:313 -- SEMINAR ON THE USE OF DREAMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

Please Note: All courses listed above are taught Tuesday and  Thursday evenings

WEDNESDAY COURSES:

300:319 -- GROUP EXPERIENCE – FOLLOW-UP OF 100:112

000:020 -- (Grad) ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

000:035 -- THERAPY WITH THE SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD

000:040 -- ADLER IN THE WORKPLACE 

I. THREE RESEARCH PAPERS:

II. CLINICAL SUPERVISION:  

150 hours Psychotherapy Program

150 hours Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program 

175 hours Analysis Program                     

III. CLIENT HOURS 300 to 1000 hours:  

(Note: currently 300 hours; the number of client hours for all training institutes is currently under revision consideration by the American Board of Accreditation in Psychoanalysis) Clients are seen at the Community Consultation Center, which is under the auspices of The Alfred Adler Center for Mental Health

IV. PERSONAL ANALYSIS:

100 hours Psychotherapy Program          
200 hours Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
300 hours Analysis Program  
          
         

The Alfred Adler Center for Mental Health has been serving the New York community for nearly 50 years. The Center is a non-sectarian, non-profit organization committed to providing the highest standard of psychotherapeutic services to adults, adolescents and children.

Psychotherapy and counseling at the Center are based on the theories and methods of Alfred Adler. Adler emphasized the uniqueness of the individual and the importance of active involvement with others. 

Our therapists are graduates of The Alfred Adler Institute of New York, the post-graduate training institute, chartered by the Board of Regents of the State of New York. Therapists are certified by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and have a minimum of 5 years advanced training and clinical experience.

HOW WE CAN HELP YOU:

Clients come to the Alfred Adler Center if they are seeking help with:

Depression

Anxiety

Relationship Problems

Parenting Concerns

Family Problems

Work or School-Related Issues

Stress-Related Issues

Loss and Mourning

Individual and group therapy

Marital and couple counseling

Family therapy

Play therapy

The first step is to call us at 212.777.9492 for an appointment or more information.

FEES:

At the Alfred Adler Center for Mental Health, all fees are on a sliding scale based on the client’s ability to pay. Our fees are insurance reimbursable by some insurance plans.

HOURS:

The Center offers convenient hours for client appointments between
9 AM and 8 PM weekdays.

LOCATION:

The Center is located at 594 Broadway (at the Southeast corner of Houston Street) Suite 1213 New York, NY 10012 convenient to all forms of public transportation.