61st Annual Meeting

October 18 - 25, 2014

Clinical Case Conference 4 (open)

What’s Your Lens? Bringing Clarity to Complex Clinical Presentations Where the Supervisor Has to Help the Resident Navigate the Process by Integrating Psychodynamic, Family Systems, Medico-Legal, and Ethical Issues

The AACAP Psychotherapy, Family, and Ethics Committees have joined forces to create a unique forum for discussion of the intimate, and often difficult work, residents encounter when confronted with complex cases that raise ethical and therapeutic dilemmas. Integrating the three diverse and, at times, discrepant perspectives of the committees, presenters describe clinical and supervisory challenges that arise when working with children and adolescents; describe the principles supervisors use when assessing child or adolescent patients; and identify strategies for the use of a bio-psycho-social approach to treatment planning. The CCC represents one step in achieving consensus on best practice standards for assessing and intervening with children and families in the context of competing agendas and complicated psychodynamic, family, medical-legal, and ethical issues.