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 […]
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
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,
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
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By Tina Adkins, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin. Important To Know: A thorough review of the current research literature is necessary to help you decide what works and how to build your intervention. It is critical to have a
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In 2018, TXICFW’s Tina Adkins, Ph.D., published a study finding preliminary evidence that mentalizing psychoeducation can significantly improve parental reflective functioning and lower parenting stress in foster parents. By Allie Long So what makes this experiment different? Typically, when foster parents receive parenting training, the focus is largely on information sharing or skill building,
By Allie Long & Kate McKerlie The Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing is excited to announce the creation of the Sue Fairbanks Psychoanalytic Academy, funded through a generous endowment by Sue Fairbanks and directed by Dr. Tina Adkins. Tina Adkins, a Research Assistant Professor at TXICFW, has seen first-hand how incredibly important caregivers
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