PETIT-MIELET Agnès TSTA-C
Field of audience: C,E,P

Language: French (translated to English)
Level of audience: Advanced

After some 15 years working with children, I want to share my passion for this work, and my ideas about what makes a child therapist legitimate. I am also very invested in getting psychotherapy training institutes to include special training in child psychotherapy. I believe specific learning is necessary because, as Alessandra Pierini states in her article, “work with children is very different from work with adults”.[1]

The goals of this workshop are:

• to help people attracted by this profession define their own position and legitimacy
• to enable them to discover etc.
• to define the protections needed in order to work ethically

Content:

After identifying the participants’ main questions, I will present my vision of therapeutic work with children (referring to various authors: in TA: E. Kleinwiese, A. Pierini, MT Romanini, A. Petit, JI Clarke… and outside TA to: D Winnicott, Virginia Axline, Dora Kalff, Aletha Solter…). Then each person will be invited to reflect and discuss with a partner what is their basis for their identity as a (future) child therapist, and their legitimacy regarding questions about their training, strengths, experiences, level of personal development…

Finally, we will look at the specific protection measures to be put in place for this profession, which affects minors, and participants will be able to identify the knowledge they need to acquire in order to practice.