HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Education

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Yoel Elizur

Coordinator Email: yoel.elizur@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: according to each lecturer's reception hours

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Eyal Eliash,
Dr. Judah Koller,
Prof Yoel Elizur

Course/Module description:
The course presents an integrative treatment approach to children’s problems and disorders. The collaborative and empowering focus on the therapist, the child, parents, and other involved persons is complemented by a focus on safeguarding the child and others’ well-being. We will learn principles of treatment planning and the application of empirically-based practices. The treatment plan will emphasize a coherent sequence that includes evaluation, diagnosis, case conceptualization, defining common objectives, strategies and methods of change. Class presentations of clinical issues encountered by the students will be used to discuss and practice these principles. Concurrently, we will deal with issues of the therapist’s location in the therapeutic system. We will consider ways of relating to issues of culture, gender, minority group membership, and personal themes that are intertwined with the development of professional identity.

Course/Module aims:
The first objective is to promote students’ understanding and competence in applying an integrative, collaborative, empowering, and empirically-based approach. The second objective is to promote the development of the person of the therapist by learning about issues of culture, gender, and minority group membership.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Formulate a treatment plan targeting children’s problems and disorders using collaborative, empowering, and empirically-based principles
2. Integrate strategies and practice elements that fit the treatment plan
3. Use case formulation and intervention research to explain their plan, strategies and methods
4. Develop reflective position that is sensitive to issues of diversity
5. Develop competencies for creating a working alliance with diverse clients

Attendance requirements(%):
90% upon request

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lecture, role plays, video, case presentations

Course/Module Content:
Fall Semester

1. Evidence based assessment and evaluation.
2. Case formulation training-
an integrative approach.
3. Treatment Planning using Evidence-Based Treatments- Implementing evidence-based practice with children and adolescents.
3. Engagement and collaboration in child-focused therapy
4. The common factors in child psychotherapy
5. Working with clinical issues from the practicum – based on students’ presentation (classes 6-12).

Spring Semester

1.Integration in psychotherapy
2. An introduction to Mindfulness and the clinical work.
3. Planned and unplanned treatment termination and the therapeutic relationship.
4. Working with clinical issues from the practicum – based on students’ presentation (classes 3-5, 7-9, 11-13).

Required Reading:
זיו ביימן, ש., שחר ,ג (2014). מהי פסיכותרפיה אינטגרטיבית? שיחות, כרך כ"ח, חוב' מס' 2, 1-8
יונגסמה, פטרסון ןמק'איניס (2010). המדריך לתכנון הטיפול הפסיכותרפי בילדים. הוצאת אח, קרית ביאליק.

American Psychiatric Association, & American Psychiatric Association. DSM-5 Task Force. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association, 2013. (Electronic resource)

Becker, K. D., Lee, B. R., Daleiden, E. L., Lindsey, M., Brandt, N. E., & Chorpita, B. F. (2015). The Common Elements of Engagement in Children's Mental Health Services: Which Elements for Which Outcomes? Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 44(1), 30-43. doi:10.1080/15374416.2013.814543

Duncan, B. L. (2014). The heart and soul of change. On becoming a better therapist: Evidence-based practice one client at a time (2nd ed.) (pp. 147-173). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association.

Eells, T. D. (Ed.) (2007). Handbook of Psychotherapy Case Formulation, Second Edition. New York, NY: Guilford.

Hunsley, J., & Mash, E. J. (2007). Evidence-Based Assessment. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3, 29-51.

Norcross, J. C., Zimmerman, B. E., Greenberg, R. P., & Swift, J. K. (2017). Do all therapists do that when saying goodbye? A study of commonalities in termination behaviors. Psychotherapy, 54(1), 66-75. doi:10.1037/pst0000097

Shapiro, S. L., & Carlson, L. E. (2009). The art and science of mindfulness: Integrating mindfulness into psychology and the helping professions. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. (Chapter 2), The mindful therapist, pp. 15-29). http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/11885-002

Weber, T., & Levine, F. (1995). Engaging the family: An integrative approach. In R. H. Mikesell, D.-D. Lusterman & S. H. McDaniel (Eds.), Integrating family therapy: Handbook of family psychology and systems theory (pp. 45-71). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Additional Reading Material:
Barth, R. P., & Lee, B. R. (2013). Common Elements and Common Factors Approaches to Evidence-Informed Children’s Services: Stacking the Building Blocks of Effective Practice. In A. Shlonsky & R. Benbenishti (Eds.), From Evidence to Outcomes in Child Welfare: An International Reader.
Barth, R. P., Lee, B. R., Lindsey, M. A., Collins, K. S., Strieder, F., Chorpita, B. F., . . . Sparks, J. A. (2012). Evidence-based practice at a crossroads: The timely emergence of common elements and common factors. Research on Social Work Practice, 22(1), 108-119. doi:10.1177/1049731511408440
Chorpita, B. F., & Daleiden, E. L. (2009). Mapping evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents: Application of the distillation and matching model to 615 treatments from 322 randomized trials. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77(3), 566-579. doi: 10.1037/a0014565
Daleiden, E. L., Chorpita, B. F., Donkervoet, C., Arensdorf, A. M., Brogan, M., & Hamilton, J. D. (2006). Getting better at getting them better: Health outcomes and evidence-based practice within a system of care. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45(6), 749-756.
Drewes, A. A. (2009). Blending play therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy: Evidence-based and other effective treatments and techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Garland, A. F., Haine-Schlagel, R., Brookman-Frazee, L., Baker-Ericzen, M., Trask, E., & Fawley-King, K. (2013). Improving Community-Based Mental Health Care for Children: Translating Knowledge into Action. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 40(1), 6-22. doi:10.1007/s10488-012-0450-8
Lindsey, M. A., Brandt, N. E., Becker, K. D., Lee, B. R., Barth, R. P., Daleiden, E. L., & Chorpita, B. F. (2013). Identifying the common elements of treatment engagement interventions in children’s mental health services. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, No Pagination Specified. doi:10.1007/s10567-013-0163-x
Macneil, C. A., Hasty, M. K., Conus, P., & Berk, M. (2012). Is diagnosis enough to guide interventions in mental health? Using case formulation in clinical practice. BMC Medicine, 10, 111-111. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-111
Madsen, W. C. (2007). Collaborative therapy with multi-stressed families (2nd Ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
Norcross, J. C. (2010). The therapeutic relationship. In B. L. Duncan, S. D. Miller, B. E. Wampold & M. A. Hubble (Eds.), The heart and soul of change: Delivering what works in therapy (2nd ed.) (pp. 113-141). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association.
Robbins, M. S., Feaster, D. J., Horigian, V. E., Rohrbaugh, M., Shoham, V., Bachrach, K., … Szapocznik, J. (2011). Brief strategic family therapy versus treatment as usual: Results of a multisite randomized trial for substance using adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(6), 713-727. doi: 10.1037/a0025477
Wachtel, P. L. (2014). An integrative relational point of view. Psychotherapy, 51(3), 342-349. doi:10.1037/a0037219
Weisz, J. R., Chorpita, B. F., Palinkas, L. A., Schoenwald, S. K., Miranda, J., Bearman, S. K., . . . , & Health, R. N. o. Y. M. (2012). Testing standard and modular designs for psychotherapy treating depression, anxiety, and conduct problems in youth: A randomized effectiveness trial. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(3), 274-282. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.147
Weisz, J. R., & Kazdin, A. E. (2010). Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Guilford.
Winters, N. C., Hanson, G., & Stoyanova, V. (2007). The Case Formulation in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 16(1), 111-132. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2006.07.010

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 50 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 25 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 25 %
case presentation

Additional information:
Reports refer to weekly reaction papers to the reading assignments.