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The provision of service to the community is a part
of the professional identity of most psychoanalysts. The Psychoanalytic
Center takes upon itself the responsibility for developing programs which
are of service to the community in the form of either direct clinical
services or consultation or education. Current programs are listed below:
· Low-Fee Consultation and Referral Service. This service
offers clinical evaluation and appropriate referral for either
psychoanalysis or psychotherapy on a low fee basis.
· Child and
Family Evaluation and Treatment Service (in development).
· Parent-Child Center. The Parent-Child Center offers a variety of services
for families, parents, and children and for professionals who work with
families or children. A Pre-School
and Day Care Consultation Program offers professional consultation to a
number of pre-schools and day care centers, as well as child advocacy and
welfare workers, in the greater Philadelphia area. Parenting Education projects include Parent-Child groups, in which infants or toddlers play while
the mothers talk with professionals about the children’s development, and a
Violence Prevention program, in
which parent-child groups and staff consultations are provided to programs
developed to intervene with high-risk families.
· Schools in the City. This program has been designed so that educators and
psychoanalytic clinicians can come together to discuss the ways in which emotional
problems interfere with learning in city schools.
· South
Asian-American Forum. This highly successful program was designed
collaboratively with South Asian immigrants to the Philadelphia area in
order to provide a forum in which to discuss the emotional and cultural
problems engendered by immigration and the building of a new identity in a
new country.
· Alliance for Psychoanalytic Thought. This affiliated organization was developed in order
to bring together psychoanalytic clinicians and other professionals (such
as child-care workers, educators, lawyers and judges, medical doctors) with a common interest in exchanging
ideas about psychoanalysis in order to collaborate in developing programs
of benefit to the community. An example is the development of an annual Child-Care Colloquium, at which a
noted psychoanalytic speaker addresses issues relevant to child-care
workers for their continuing education.
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