Considering Child Development in Adult Clinical Work - Theodore James Fallon, Jr., MD, MPH, FAACAP, FABP (Live)

December 20, 2024

2024-25 Grand Rounds Series 

Dr. Theodore Fallon will present ongoing work illuminating a developmental perspective on working with adult patients in talk therapy. This perspective focuses on three different stages in child development:

  1. Developing a core sense of self which in “normative” chronology takes place during the first 18 months of life;
  2. The psychic equivalent mode of thinking predominates and the child lives in dyadic relationships in the present moment which has been identified “normatively” between the ages of 3 and 7 years of life, and;
  3. After a watershed developmental moment, reflective thinking, object constancy, theory of mind, empathy, triadic and community relationships predominate in the child’s mind. The child “normatively” has the capacity to reach these psychological capacities by seven years of age.

At each of these three stages of development, growth promoting interactions, that is, good parenting, occur in one of three frames depending on the development of the child. In each of these three frames, the parent and the child predominantly follow one of three general sets of rules of engagement that fit the stage of development.

In ongoing clinical work, as well as extensive observations of residents’ interactions with patients, and recent public events over the last ten years, Dr. Fallon has observed that each adult thinks, behaves and interacts with others using predominantly one of these three sets of rules of engagement. In the context of a talk therapy, growth promoting interactions seem to occur when the therapist follows the rules of engagement that match the patient’s. Teaching residents to identify and engage in the rules of engagement that are growth promoting for each particular adult patient has enhanced the residents’ capacity for effective talk therapy.

Target Audience

__X_ Introductory                __X_ Intermediate                __X__ Advanced

Learning Objectives

  1. List and describe the three basic stages of child development
  2. Describe the rules of engagement for each stage of child development and discuss how using these rules of engagement foster growth promoting development
  3. Give examples of adults reflecting each basic stage of child development

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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    ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

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    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this Webinar live course will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s).

  • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
    A certificate of attendance for all Learners.
Course opens: 
10/11/2024
Course expires: 
12/19/2025
Event starts: 
12/20/2024 - 12:50pm EST
Event ends: 
12/20/2024 - 1:50pm EST
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Theodore Fallon, MD, MPH, FAACAP, FABP, is a child and adult psychoanalyst as well as an internist and epidemiologist. As a faculty at St. Elizabeth's Hospital Residency Training Program, he supervises and teaches talk therapy to residents. As a professor at Drexel University College of Medicine, he teaches creative and reflective writing, professionalism and bioethics to medical students and consults with the Office of Student Affairs, working with students with ethics violations. He has served as the chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, and on the executive board of the Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education. He has a private practice in the Western Suburbs of Philadelphia.

Austen Riggs Center Inc. adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. All those at Austen Riggs Center involved in the planning of this activity, including the presenter(s) listed above, report they have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company*.

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.

* An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    ICPE Logo

    ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 APA

    APA Logo

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

  • 1.00 ASWB-ACE

    ASWB Logo

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this Webinar live course will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s).

  • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
    A certificate of attendance for all Learners.
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