Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Child and adolescent psychotherapy has both the treatment of mental disorders in childhood and adolescence as its mission and primary and secondary preventive tasks regarding the mental health of children and adolescents.
This also includes problem areas of parenthood and the extra-familial educational and social environment of children and adolescents. The formative character of childhood and adolescence for the development of the personality gives child and adolescent psychotherapy essential importance for mental health in adulthood.
The Institute for Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is dedicated to further education and research in all fields of child and adolescent psychotherapy. The university course “Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy” imparts the theoretical and practical knowledge required for psychotherapeutic work with infants, children and adolescents.
Research focuses on developmental research, interdisciplinary research on pedagogy and child and adolescent psychotherapy, questions of clinical research as well as research on the new media in their significance for child and adolescent psychotherapy.
Head: Dr. Gabriela Pap, MSc., e-mail
Academic activities
Academic activities
Teaching & further education
The Institute for Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy runs a university course certified by the Federal Ministry of Health for further training in infant, child and adolescent psychotherapy. Further information on the curriculum of the university course in infant, child and adolescent psychotherapy, admission requirements, registration and dates can be found here.
Here you can find the list of psychotherapists who have been certified by the SFU for further training in infant, child and adolescent psychotherapy.
Supervision of final theses
Theses (bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, doctorate) are integrated into the Institute’s research projects. Enquiries regarding the supervision of theses should be addressed to the head of the institute.
Research
Research
The research work of the Institute for Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is not limited to genuine clinical-psychotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic research topics, but also recognises its responsibility for the further development of society and education.
So far, this has also been realised in empirical-quantitative research work on the use of psychotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic-scientific knowledge in education. For example, the efficiency of implementing encouragement in the didactics of school lessons has been proven (Sindelar, Hejze, & Langer, 2011), as has the effectiveness of integrating psychotherapeutically based supervision of primary school teachers for the learning and performance success and personal development of schoolchildren (Sindelar B. , 2017a).
Current research focus
The data material from the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinics for children and adolescents at the SFU is being analysed. The aim of this extensive research project is to identify risk factors and resilience-promoting factors for the mental health of children and adolescents, which will allow conclusions to be drawn for preventive measures and thus contribute to stabilising the health of future generations.
Contact
Contact
Dr. Gabriela Pap, MSc.
Head of the infant, child and adolescent psychotherapy course
Freudplatz 1, Room 4009
E-mail: gabriela.pap@sfu.ac.at
Tel: +43 664 464 69 56
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Univ. Ass. Dr. Maria Gren, BA. BA.
E-mail: maria.gren@sfu.ac.at
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Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Faculty of Psychotherapy Science
Sigmund Freud Private University
Freudplatz 1
1020 Vienna