Publications

Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach

Leon Hoffman, Timothy Rice, & Tracy A. Prout (2016)

Our guide for parents, Keeping it Together When Things Fall Apart: Harnessing the Power of Emotions to Understand Your Child's Behavior , is available for purchase. Authored by leaders in the field of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children, this book is an invaluable resource for parents, therapists, and anyone who works with families.

Prout, T. A., Rice, T., Chung, H., Gorokhovsky, Y., Murphy, S., & Hoffman, L. (2021) Randomized controlled trial of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children: A manualized psychodynamic treatment for externalizing behaviors. Psychotherapy Research, 32(5), 555-570.

Prout, T. A., Rice, T. R., Murphy, S., Gaines, E. Aizin, S., Sessler, D., Ramchandani, T., Racine, E., Gorokhovsky, Y., & Hoffman, L. (2019). Why is it easier to get mad than it is to feel sad? Pilot study of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 72(1), 2-8.

Storey, E., Nimroody, T., Prout, T. A., Hoffman, L., & Rice, T. (2023). Feasibility of a psychodynamic school-partnered mental health service: A pilot study. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Advanced online publication.

Prout, T. A., Goodman, G., Chung, H., & Sherman, A. (2021). Psychotherapy process in regulation focused psychotherapy for children. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.

Kufferath-Lin, T., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Prout, T. A., & Hoffman, L. (2021). An examination of parent sessions in Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C). Psychotherapy, 58(1), 109–120.

Prout, T. A., Goodman, G., Hoffman, L., Rice, T., & Sherman, A (2018). Expert clinicians’ prototype of an ideal treatment in Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C). Journal of Psychotherapy Integration 28(4), 401-4012.

Udwin, S., Kufferath-Lin, T., Prout, T. A., Rice, T., & Hoffman, L. (2021). Little girl, big feelings: Online child psychotherapy amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 20(4), 354-371.

Rice, T. R., Prout, T. A., Cohen, J., Russo, M., Clements, T., Kufferath-Lin, T., Joaquin, M., Kui, T., Kim, S., Zaidi, A., & Hoffman, L. (2021). Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children as a trauma-informed intervention. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 49(1), 73-85.

Prout, T. A., Chacko, A., Spigelman, A., Aizin, S., Burger, M. Chowdhury, T., Ramakrishnan, A., Peralta, S., Vardanian, M. M.., Rice, T., & Hoffman, L. (2018). Bridging the divide between psychodynamic and behavioral approaches for children with oppositional defiant disorder. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 17(4), 364-377.

Prout, T. A., Gerber, L. E., Gaines, E., Hoffman, L., & Rice, T. R. (2015). The development of an evidence-based treatment: Regulation-focused psychotherapy for children with externalizing disorders. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 41(3), 255-271.

Hoffman, L. (2015). Berta Bornstein’s “Frankie” - The contemporary relevance of a classic to the treatment of children with disruptive symptoms. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 68(1), 152-176.

Hoffman, L. (2013). Single Case Archive of Hoffman, L. (1989). The psychoanalytic process and the development of insight in child analysis: A case study. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 57, 63-80.

Di Giuseppe, M., Prout, T. A., Rice, T., & Hoffman, L. (2020). Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C): Advances in the treatment of ADHD and ODD in childhood and adolescence. Frontiers in Psychology – Psychopathology.

Di Giuseppe, M., Prout, T. A., Fabiani, M., & Kui, T. (2020). Defensive profile of parents of children with externalizing problems receiving Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children: A pilot study. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 8(2).

Rice, T. R., & Hoffman, L. (2014). Defense mechanisms and implicit emotion regulation: A comparison of a psychodynamic construct with one from contemporary neuroscience. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 62(4), 693-708.

Prout, T. A., Malone, A., Rice, T., & Hoffman, L. (2019). Resilience, defenses, and implicit emotion regulation in psychodynamic child psychotherapy. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 49(4), 235–244.

Hoffman, L. (2015). Mentalization, emotion regulation, countertransference. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14, 258–271.

Hoffman, L. (2007). Do children get better when we interpret their defenses against painful feelings?. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 62(1), 291-313.

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

The Role of Defense Analysis in Child (and Adult) Treatmentwith Leon Hoffman, MD - June 25, 2023

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

A Psychoanalyst Studies ‘Why is it easier to get mad than it is to feel sad?’ with Leon Hoffman, MD - February 23, 2020

AXYS (Association for X and Y Chromosome Variations)

How to Keep Your Cool Around Disruptive Behaviors with Tracy A. Prout, PhD - July 11, 2018

Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) - Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Visiting Faculty Series

Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Dr. Leon Hoffman - January 4, 2018