First Year Exam Topics- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

  1. Multimodal Psychotherapy (excluding basic techniques used in multimodal psychotherapy)
  2. Basic Techniques in Multimodal Psychotherapy
  3. Systematic Treatment Selection
  4. Beitman’s Model of Future Predictions
  5. The Transtheoretical Model
  6. The Contact-in-Relationship Model
  7. The Proto Self
  8. The Core Self
  9. The Plastic Self and the External Self
  1. The Concept of Self-Esteem
  2. Self-Efficacy and Learned Helplessness
  3. Working with Low Self-Esteem
  4. Empathy
  5. Unconditional Regard
  6. The Therapeutic Alliance
  7. Repairing Alliance Ruptures
  8. The Therapeutic Relationship
  9. Categorical and Dimensional Diagnosis
  10. Ego Strengthening
  11. Emotional Processing
  1. The Zygote, Embryo, and Fetus
  2. Prenatal Brain Development
  3. Genome, Epigenome, and Brain Development
  4. Environmental Influences on the Human Fetus
  5. Fetal Experience Before Birth
  6. Perinatal Development
  7. Birth
  8. Newborn Experience
  9. The Social Environment at Birth
  10. Contexts of Child Development
  11. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Child Development
  12. Behavioral Approaches to Child Development and Social Learning
  13. Cognitive and Developmental Approaches to Child Development
  14. The Socio-Cultural Approach to Child Development
  15. Brain Development in Children
  16. Preschool Thinking
  17. Development of Emotional Expression
  18. The Evolution of Self-Esteem During Childhood Development
  19. Theories of Moral Development