In this roundup of new research on mentalization-based therapy, discover how psychoanalytic interventions can mitigate the effects of trauma and help build secure attachment in childhood and adulthood. Mothering From the Inside Out: Results of a second randomized clinical trial testing a mentalization-based intervention for mothers in addiction treatment (2017) Suchman, N.E.; DeCoste, C. …
Are you interested in learning more about applying psychoanalytic ideas to clinical practice? Stay tuned for our NEW virtual post-graduate certificate course! Offered through the Sue Fairbanks Psychoanalytic Academy (SFPA), the year-long course uses a social work lens to help practitioners tackle big issues with psychoanalytic theory and practical skills. Participants will learn to apply …
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In their most recent published article, TXICFW’s Dr. Tina Adkins, Ph.D., Swetha Nulu, MPH, and Kaitlyn Doerge, MSSW, examined foster parents’ history of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and their impact in providing optimal care to youth. You can read the full article here. If you’re pressed for time but would like to learn more about …
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Psychoanalytic Lunch & Learns Come learn how psychoanalytic concepts relate to your work with children & families! We cordially invite you to a series of Lunch & Learns to introduce psychoanalytic concepts to community practitioners, researchers, social workers and those in all helping professions. “Psychoanalysis” goes far beyond Freud, and has been a valuable and …
SFPA Research Current Projects: Validation of the Reflective Functioning Five-Minute Speech Sample (RF-FMSS) Parental Reflective Functioning (PRF) is an attachment related construct that refers to the parent’s ability to accurately interpret and respond to their infant’s internal emotional and biological states (Fonagy, 2009). Presently, the only well-established measure of PRF, the Reflective Functioning Scale, …
What we Do The goals of the Academy include increasing the knowledge and understanding of psychoanalytic theory by translating psychoanalytic research and theory into usable information for social work and community practitioners. Research We feel it is important to use science to study and support how psychoanalytic theories intersect with social work practice. This includes …
Who we are Founders Tina Adkins, Ph.D., and Sue Fairbanks, MSSW, LCSW Tina Adkins, Ph.D. Director & Founder Dr. Tina Adkins is a Research Assistant Professor with the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing, the Director of the Sue Fairbanks Psychoanalytic Academy, a Research Fellow with the International Psychoanalytic Association, and a practicing …
