honoring our Roots,
celebrating our branches
Bay Area Child-Parent Psychotherapy Conference (2022)


Date
September 1, 2022
9:00am-5:00pm PST, with an optional 8:30am breakfast
Location
UCSF Nancy Pritzker Building at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus
675 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
audience
This conference is open to anyone who has completed or is currently completing CPP training.
Cost
$60 to attend (CE credit* and light breakfast included).
*The Child Trauma Research Program is approved by the CPA OPD to sponsor continuing professional education for psychologists. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) now recognizes CPA continuing education credit for license renewal for LCSWs, LMFTs and LPCCs. CTRP maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
Registration
Agenda
(Note: The itinerary below is a working agenda and subject to change.)
8:30-9:00am
Registration, Networking, and Light Refreshments
9:00-9:15am
Welcome
9:15-10:45am
Opening Keynote:
Honoring our Roots: Grounding CPP in a Deeper Understanding of Core Psychoanalytic Principles,
with Alicia Lieberman, PhD and Lisa Mennet, PhD
Join us in conversation with Dr. Lieberman and Dr. Mennet as we deepen our understanding of core psychoanalytic principles and examine how they guide CPP interventions. We will explore clinical formulations from a psychoanalytic framework and highlight how classic psychoanalytic concepts inform therapeutic responses, particularly when families have experienced complex, intergenerational, and/or historical trauma.
10:45-11:00am
Break
11:00am-12:30pm
Clinical Workshops:
“Leaning into the Messiness”: Advanced CPP Case Discussions (choose from one of the options)
Fear of Being Bad: the Shark (el Tiburon) in the Family and in Society
- Monica Noriega, PsyD and Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD
To Interpret or Not to Interpret: Exploring Thematic Play with a Multicultural Lens
- Carolyn Ponting, PhD and Ann Chu, PhD
Diversity-Related Ports of Entry in Supervision
- Shondra Davis, PsyD, and Sufna John, PhD
12:30-2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-3:30pm
Clinical Workshops:
“Leaning into the Messiness”: Advanced CPP Case Discussions (choose from one of the options)
Fear of Being Bad: the Shark (el Tiburon) in the Family and in Society
- Monica Noriega, PsyD and Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD
To Interpret or Not to Interpret: Exploring Thematic Play with a Multicultural Lens
- Carolyn Ponting, PhD and Ann Chu, PhD
Diversity-Related Ports of Entry in Supervision
- Shondra Davis, PsyD, and Sufna John, PhD
3:30-3:45pm
Break
3:45-4:30pm
Closing Keynote:
Integrating Our Notes from the Margin: Branching Out into the Future,
with Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD and Alicia Lieberman, PhD
As we deepen our appreciation of core psychoanalytic concepts, how do we consciously “brown” those concepts, meaning broadening our lens and integrating a historical, sociocultural-perspective into our psychodynamic case formulations.
Notes from the margins refers to the comments many of us often make in the margins of books and research articles, our imagined dialogue with formative theoreticians of core psychoanalytic concepts. Examples include questions related to how we broaden ghosts in the nursery to ghosts in society, angels in the nursery to ancestral angels, defenses against unbearable affect to defenses against unbearable societal experiences. As we extend our branches and spread our work, how do we deepen our dialogue so that we embrace the importance of the family’s past, our country’s past, and the past history between and among our cultural groups.
4:30-5:00pm
CPP Informational Booths & Wrapping Up
5:00-7:00pm
Optional: Connect together at Spark Social
COVID-19 Guidelines
UCSF has developed COVID-19 guidelines for events to help keep everyone safe. The regulations are subject to change, so please check here for the most up-to-date information.
Attendees will be required to fill out a form prior to the conference to confirm their vaccination status as well as any recent travel outside of the state of California. This form will be emailed to all registered conference attendees in August.
All attendees must show proof of vaccination on the day of the conference to enter the building and fill out the UCSF Daily Screener prior to arrival and present evidence of their COVID-19 vaccination status*. Attendees who have recently traveled outside of California must also complete a negative PCR test within 48 hours prior to the conference or a negative antigen test the same day.
*Evidence is defined as a 1) physical vaccination card, 2) a photo of the vaccination card, or 3) a digital vaccine record.
Parking information
The UCSF Nancy Pritzker Building parking garage does not offer event parking. Valet services are available for patients and research participants only. CPP Conference attendees are encouraged to take the UCSF Tan Shuttle, use a designated UCSF Parking Location, or find street parking.
Meals
A breakfast of coffee, tea, and pastries will be provided from 8:30am until 9:00am. Lunch will not be provided, but recommendations will be emailed to registered attendees prior to the conference. Water and light refreshments will be available throughout the day.
Social Hour
After the conference concludes, participants are invited to an optional social event located at Spark Social, an outdoor recreation area, approximately a 15-minute walk from the UCSF Nancy Pritzker Building. Check here for information on Spark Social’s COVID-19 guidelines.