As required by ministerial regulations, the teaching activity lasts 500 hours per year, 150 of which are internships and is divided into the areas listed below.
SINGLE THEME CLINICAL and/or THEORETICAL SEMINARS
They are conducted by a single internationally renowned expert on the topic of the seminar or, more often, by a group of experts.
MAIN COURSES
Through a systemic-relational approach. All these courses are based on a systemic approach, some of which require the student to observe sections of or entire sessions by means of one-way mirror or video recordings. Other courses contain modules using contributions on specific topics from different approaches (cognitivist, psychoanalytical).
SUPERVISION
Conducted by teachers of our school on student’s clinical cases or on clinical cases observed by the students during their internships. A limited number of supervisions are carried out together with a teacher from our school and a colleague with a cognitivist or psychoanalytical background.
SELF-REFLECTIVE TRAINING
It concerns aspects of the trainee’s personal life that are relevant for psychotherapeutic practice. Every year it focuses on one or two specific topics.
INTERNSHIP
Inside public and private facilities. The Institute has established 51 internship agreements mainly in Lombardy, but also in other parts of Italy.
FIRST YEAR
- – Techniques in conducting and analyzing systemic interviews with families, couples and individuals
- Consultation techniques: from the collection of the first information to the redefinition of the problem
- Systemic thinking
- The first phases of the psychotherapeutic process
- Systemic-relational psychopathology: psychogenic eating disorders
- Pragmatics of family relationships and the construction of individual identities –
- Supervision
- Self-reflexive training: the choice to become a psychotherapist in the context of family history.
At the end of the first year, the trainees write an autobiography in which they explains their choice to become a psychotherapist in the context of their individual and family history or they can transcribe and comment on two sessions.
SECOND YEAR
- – Techniques for conducting and analyzing individual, family and couple sessions and relative specificities and differences
- Consultation techniques: individual and relational assessment, formulation and diagnoses
- Consultation strategies and techniques when the child is the problem
- Changing and therapeutic process: basic principles
- Starting the therapeutic process in individual and family treatments
- Systemic-relational psychopathology: anxiety and phobic disorders
- Family Semantics and individual identities
- Supervision
- Self-reflexive training: positioning in the family of origin and personal characteristics
At the end of the first year, trainees present an individual, or couple or family consultation including the individual and relationships diagnoses or assessment and the therapeutic project.
THIRD YEAR
- The intermediate phases of the psychotherapeutic process in individual, family and couple psychotherapies
- Short psychotherapies: strategies and techniques
- Strategies and techniques specific to individual and couple psychotherapies
- Specificity of the therapeutic process in treatments for phobic disorders and psychogenic eating disorders
- The psychotherapeutic relationship with clients within the semantic of goodness and belonging
- Systemic psychopathology: obsessive-compulsive disorders, conduct disorders and personality disorders
- Supervisions, including joint supervision (conducted by one of our teachers and a cognitivist or psychoanalyst colleague)
- Self-reflexive training: position in the families of origin, personal characteristics and resources / constraints for the psychotherapeutic practice
FOUR YEAR
- Il processo terapeutico nelle fasiavanzate di trattamenti individuali, familiari e di coppia
- Conclusion of therapy and e il follow-up interviews
- Systemic psychopathology: depressions and mood disorders, personality disorders, psychotic onsets
- The psychotherapeutic relationship with clients within the semantic of goodness and belonging
- Individual, family and couple psychotherapeutic intervention techniques in mood disorders, personality disorders and psychoses
- Methods and techniques for single case studies
- Supervisions, including joint supervision (conducted by one of our teachers and a cognitivist or psychoanalyst colleague)
- Self-reflective: using the trainees’ relational style and personal biography in the psychotherapeutic process
At the end of the fourth year, the trainees present and discuss their final thesis consisting of the illustration of single family, couple or individual cases they have personally treated.
