74th Annual Conference Sessions and Workshops
Thursday, March 9 (Overview)

Early Bird Open Sessions
Early Morning Colloquies
Conference Opening Plenary
All-Day Courses
All-Day Workshops
Morning Open Sessions
Morning Workshops
Lunch-Time Open Session
Afternoon Open Sessions
Afternoon Workshops

Event Descriptions for Thursday

 

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:15 – 8:15 A.M.

Session 201: Contemporary Group Psychotherapy Research
Cheri Marmarosh, PhD, Co-Chair
Rainer Weber, PhD, Co-Chair
•    Evidence-Based Group Treatments for Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Meta-Analytic Clinical Guidelines - Allison Garner, BS Student; Rebecca Janis, BS; Jennifer Jensen, MS, JD
•    Attachment Anxiety and Attachment Avoidance: Members’ Fit with Their Group - Dennis Kivlighan, Jr., PhD
•    Development of a Documentation System for Small Group Treatments - An Addendum for the CORE Battery? - Bernhard Strauss, PhD
Sessions also on Friday (7:15 – 8:15 A.M.) and Saturday (7:45 – 8:45 A.M.)

Session 202: Analyzing the Integral Components of the Female and Male Psyche in an Integrative Dynamic Therapy Group
Ahmed Mohmed Kamal Ahmed Abdelkrem, MD, PhD, MsC, MBBCh
Maha Ali Hassan, MD, PhD, MsC, MBBCh
Nashaat Adel Mohamed, MD, PhD, MsC, MBBCh
CANCELLED

Session 203: Virtuality in our Groups and our Lives (iSIG Coffee Break)
Robert Hsiung, MD
Elisabeth Joy LaMotte, MSW
Sid Siahpush, MD, PhD, MPH, CGP

Session 204: Meaning of Psychotropic Medications in Trauma Patients
Amy Yang, MD

Session 205: Beyond Borderline Personality Disorder: Dialectical Behavior Therapy in a College Counseling Center
Amberly Panepinto, PhD
Carissa Uschold, LCSW-R, RYT

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Early Morning Colloquies
7:15 – 8:15 A.M.

Colloquy 1:  Duck & Cover - Group Interventions to Support Ethnically Distinct Populations Vulnerable to Surges of Scapegoating 
Siddharth Shah, MD, MPH

Colloquy 2: Managing Elementary School Atmosphere through Large Groups
Einar Gudmundsson, MD

Colloquy 3: Psychodrama: Empirical Research and Science
Michael Wieser, DPhil
CANCELLED

Colloquy 4: Sex Offender Process Groups
Robert Coufal, PhD
Nubia Lluberes, MD

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Conference Opening Plenary Address
8:30 –  9:45 A.M.

Cyclical Psychodynamics and Group Psychotherapy: Understanding People in Context
Featured Speaker: Paul Wachtel, PhD

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All-Day Courses
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

(Registration will only be accepted for both the morning and afternoon sessions.)

C1. Focused Brief Group Therapy: The Practice, the Theory and the Science
Director:
Martyn Whittingham, PhD, CGP
Faculty: 
Jordan Allison, PsyD

C2. Contemporary Adolescent Group Psychotherapy: Methods, Madness, and the Fun
Director:
Seth Aronson, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA
Faculty:
Thomas Hurster, MSS, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA
Andrew Pojman, EdD, CGP, FAGPA
D. Thomas Stone, Jr., PhD, CGP, FAGPA

C3. Process Addictions for the Group Psychotherapist: From Isolation to Connection
Directors:
Shelley Korshak, MD, CGP, FAGPA
Marcia Nickow, PsyD, CADC, CGP

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All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

(Registration will only be accepted for both the morning and afternoon sessions.) 

Workshop 1a: Leadership Development: Becoming a Corporate Trainer
Rick Tivers, LCSW, CGP

Workshop 2a: Longing for Home: Past Attachments and Reparative Re-Attachments
Myrna Frank, PhD, CGP

Workshop 3a: Introductory Approach to Modern Group Analysis
Alice Brown, PsyD, CGP
Joan Coll, MD
Sally Henry, LCSW, CGP

Workshop 4a: Leadership: Finding Your Strengths, Interests, and Genius (AGPA Leadership Track)
Sara Emerson, LICSW, MSW, CGP, FAGPA
Samuel James, EdD, ABPP

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Morning Open Sessions

10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

Session 301: Online Groups - Alone in the Virtual Presence of Others
Haim Weinberg, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Chair
Shari Baron, MSN, CNS, CGP, FAGPA
Ravit Raufman, PhD

Session 302: A Systems-Centered View of Trauma and Annihilation Anxiety in the Systems of Person, Small Groups and Large Groups
Les Greene, PhD, CGP, LFAGPA, Chair
Yvonne Agazarian, EdD, CGP, DLFAGPA
Susan Gantt, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA
Phyllis Goltra, PhD

Session 303: Military Women Reveal Barriers and Pathways to Healthcare: A Qualitative Group Study
Robert Klein, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DLFAGPA, Chair
Jessica Koblenz, PsyD, CGP
Madelyn Miller, PhD, LCSW, CGP
Suzanne Phillips, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

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Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
 

Workshop 5: 101 Un-Conventional Interventions in Group Therapy
Robert Pepper, PhD, LCSW, CGP

Workshop 6: "Nothing Human is Alien to Me:" Intolerance and the Other
Marc Schramm, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 7: Invisible Knapsacks: How White People Can Unpack Whiteness and Work Toward Racial Justice
Mark Drummond Davis, MSW, CSWA
Rachel Redd, MSW, LCSW

Workshop 8: Not Again!! Why Some People Repeat Relationships with Abusive Partners and How Group Therapy Can Help
Mary Nicholas, LCSW, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 9: Therapy is Going to the Dogs: Canine Assisted Psychotherapy Ethics and Experience
Lorraine Wodiska, PhD, ABPP, CGP

Workshop 10: The Art of Conferencing: Using Subgroups for Individual Growth and Group Development
Michael Altshuler, LCSW, CGP

Workshop 11: Combined Therapy: The Paradox of Polarity and the Power of Complementary Connection and Integration
Anni Cree, MA
Mona Yehia Rakhawy, MD
Noha Sabry, MD

Workshop 12: Music, Movement, and Moments of Meeting: A Group Experience
Suzanne Cohen, EdD, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 13: Family Genograms, Family Mapping & Family Sculpture: From Isolation to Connection
Frédéric La Belle, MFA, CGP

Workshop 14: Co-Constructing Hope: Newness, Repetition and Discontinuity in the Analytic Group
Ido Peleg, MD

Workshop 15: From Process to Action: Existential Group Therapy
Christen Cummins, LCSW, MSW
David Hayes, PhD

Workshop 16: “Failure to Launch” Groups for Young Adult Men
Connie Concannon, LCSW, CGP, DFAGPA
John Rochios, PhD, CGP

Workshop 17: Beyond Midlife and Before Retirement: A Short-Term Group for Women
Rosalind Forti, LICSW, MSW, PhD
Lorraine Mangione, PhD

Workshop 18: The Rules of Engagement: Applying Couple Therapy Techniques to Group
Lee Kassan, MA, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 19: Trauma Group Treatment: Big "T" Trauma and Little "t" trauma
Bonnie Buchele, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DLFAGPA

Workshop 20: Practicing Harm Reduction Therapy: Groups for People with Co-Occurring Disorders
Maurice Byrd, MA, MFTI
Justin Castello, PhD

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Lunch-Time Open Session
1:00 – 2:15 P.M.

The Large Group
Co-Leaders:
Anne Lindhardt, MD
Gerda Winther, MA
Consultant:
Macario Giraldo, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Also being held on Friday (1:00-2:15 P.M.) and Saturday, (2:00-4:30 P.M.).
Participants should try to attend all sessions.

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Afternoon Open Sessions
2:30 – 5:00 P.M.