“Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy in the Age of Covid-19”

Chair
Giansandro Lerda (Italy)

Introduction
Gian Sandro Lerda (Italy)

Case presentation
Gian Piero Grandi (Italy) – Veronica Lo Sapio (Italy):
Children and adolescents in psychotherapy: two sessions compared.

Discussants
Anita Schedl (Austria) and Christoph Pawel (Austria)
Sara Saeedi (Canada)

Background The Pandemic has required the child and adolescent psychotherapists to face important changes and new challenges: adaptations of the setting, lifestyles transformations, new forms of disorder and psychological distress. The panel aims to stimulate a debate among colleagues, through the sharing of clinical experiences.

Educational Objectives
To develop a dynamic attitude in the management of psychotherapeutic treatments with children and adolescents, adapting Adlerian clinic practice to the changes of our time. To share experiences and reflections about the effects of Covid-19 on the lifestyle and psychological disorders of children and adolescents, in order to deal with these situations and identify objectives and strategies of treatment, according to the theory and applications of Individual Psychology. Audience Clinicians, researchers, students