The objective of this year’s Clinical Practicum is to learn about the biological and mental health sequelae of trauma exposure in infancy and early childhood and the key elements of evidence-based treatment for traumatized children in the birth to five age range. The Child Trauma Research Program (CTRP) developed and laid the empirical foundations for the efficacy of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an evidence-based treatment for traumatized young children and their parents.

CPP derives its theoretical base from Selma Fraiberg’s “ghosts in the nursery” psychoanalytic model of inter-generational transmission of psychopathology, John Bowlby’s and Mary Ainsworth’s attachment theory, research-based theoretical models of developmental psychopathology and trauma developed by Michael Rutter, M.D., Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., and Robert Pynoos, M.D., M.P.H. among others, and community-based knowledge of the influence of cultural values and practices on child and family functioning. In keeping with the community mental health mission of the San Francisco General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, CTRP focuses on the application of CPP to low-income children with a high representation of  under-served minorities and immigrant families, the dissemination of CPP to community-based agencies, and the application of early trauma principles to create trauma-informed systems of care. Since 2001, the program has been a center of the federally funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a SAMHSA initiative with the goal of increasing access to services and raising the standard of care for children, families, and communities across the country. CPP is being disseminated nationally and internationally through year-long, face-to-face and long-distance learning collaboratives and other formats for long-distance training.

Schedule:
8:30 a.m.: Meet at theTaylor Street Entrance of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square to travel to San Francisco General Hospital. The bus will leave at 8:30 a.m.

9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m.: Welcome - Jim Dilley, M.D., Chair of Psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital, Vice Chair of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

9:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Neurodevelopmental Understanding of the Effects and Treatment of Traumatic Stress (Robert L. Hendren, D.O.)  

10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.: Break

10:45 a.m.-11:30 p.m.: Basic Parameters of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D.)

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Assessment, Case Formulation, and Treatment Planning (Patricia Van Horn, J.D., Ph.D.) 

12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.: Lunch and Discussion

1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.: Core Trauma Concepts (Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Ph.D.)

2:15 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Clinical Exercises (All presenters)

3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Break and Discussion

3:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m.: Neurobiologic Embedding of Early Life Stress and Biological Moderators of Intervention Effects (Nicole R. Bush, Ph.D.)

4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.: Phenotyping for Biomarker Treatment Matching Protocol (Robert L. Hendren, D.O.)

4:45 p.m. Bus departure to Hilton San Francisco Union Square

4:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.: Summary and General Discussion