62nd Annual Conference

Sessions and Workshops

Friday, March 11

Virginia Brabender, Ph.D., ABPP, FAGPA, Chair; Dennis Debiak, Psy.D.; Linda Knauss, Ph.D., ABPP; Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D., CGP

Session 208: In The Literature: Reflections on the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy

Phyllis Mervis, DSW, CSW, CGP, Chair; Les Greene, Ph.D., FAGPA

Session 209: A Powerful Combination-Integrated Group Psychotherapy & Medication Management

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP, Chair; Kenneth Pollock, Ph.D., CGP

Session 210: Spirituality and Group Psychotherapy: Allies in Maturation

Kenneth Porter, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Alexis Abernethy, Ph.D., CGP, Discussant; Henry Grayson, Ph.D., FAGPA; Deborah Rinzler, Ph.D.

Session 211: Writing Therapy Groups: Innovative Uses of Poetry, Story, and Rap in Working with Troubled Youth

Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Samuel Landsman, Ph.D.

Session 212: Responding Collaboratively to Traumatized Corporations and Agencies: Pitfalls and Possibilities (Trauma Protocol Follow-Up Event)

Jeffery Kleinberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Priscilla Kauff, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Friday, March 11
S.R. Slavson Memorial Lecture
8:45 – 10:15 A.M.

The Schopenhauer Cure

Irvin Yalom, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Friday, March 11
All-Day Workshops
10:30 A.M.– 1:45 P.M. & 3:00 – 6:15 P.M.

Workshop 37a: Advanced ABC's of the Group Leader

Robert Weber, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 38a: Roundtable Theatre's Best Practice for Using Improvisation with Groups

Elizabeth Berney, Ph.D.;Joseph Mancini, Jr., M.S.W., Ph.D., M.S.O.D., CGP

Workshop 39a: Relational Group Psychotherapy: A Supervisory Workshop

Richard Billow, Ph.D.; Irene Gillman, Ph.D., CGP; Fred Wright, Ph.D.

Workshop 40a: Initiating and Running Couples Group in Times of Trauma and Stress

Ian Alger, M.D., CGP, FAGPA; Barbara Feld, CSW,  M.S.W., CGP; Anita Menfi, M.A., RN

 Workshop 41a: Men Fearing Men: Developing

 Male Intimacy

 Rick Tivers, LCSW, CGP

Friday, March 11
Morning Open Sessions
10:30 A.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Session 307:  Current Research in Group Psychotherapy

Jennifer Johnson, Ph.D., Chair; Anthony Joyce, Ph.D., Discussant; Catherine Classen, Ph.D.; Lawrence Ferber, M.S.; Marilyn Lanza, DNSc, ARNP. CS, FAAN; Brooke Schauder, M.S.; Hans Snijders, M.A.; Lauren Storck, Ph.D., CGP; R. Robinson Welch, Ph.D., CGP

Session 308: Politics and the Large Group

Haim Weinberg, M.A., Chair; Lamis Jarrar, Ph.D.,CGP; Otto Kernberg, M.D.; Stanley Schneider, Ph.D., CGP; Vamik Volkan, M.D.

Session 309: Internet Group Therapy

Morton Lieberman, Ph.D., Chair; Robert Klein, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Discussant; Mitch Golant, Ph.D.; Andrew Winzelberg, Ph.D.

Friday, March 11
Morning Workshops
10:30 A.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Workshop 42: Ethical and Legal Issues of Group

Confidentiality

Rebecca MacNair Semands, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 43: Love, Power and the Erotic in Group          Psychotherapy

Allan Elfant, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA;

Jennifer Harp, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 44: The Group Dream: A Powerful Tool for Insight and Group Cohesion

Herbert Rabin, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Karen Shore, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 45: Therapeutic Ideals and Therapists Humanity: Secrets, Shame and Guilt

Esther Stone, M.S.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 46: Money, Money, Money

Rachel Ginzberg, Psy.D; Elizabeth Shapiro, Ph.D.

Workshop 47: The Training Group

Louis Ormont, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Workshop 48: The Integration of Psychodrama with Family Systems Therapy

Chris Farmer, M.D.; Marcia Geller, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 49: Working with Narcissistic Issues in Group: A Structured Approach

Shari Porter Jung, LMSW-ACP, LMFT, CGP

Workshop 50: Using Expressive Movement and Body Awareness to Explore Countertransference Dilemmas

Suzanne Cohen, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 51: "Here & Now" & "There & Then"-Paradoxes Present in Group Psychotherapy

Robert Carlson, M.Div., M.S.W., CGP

Workshop 52: A Fresh Approach to Understanding Post Traumatic Stress

William Rothwell Mark, M.Div.; Carolee Verdeur Rada, Psy.D.; Donald Wexler, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 53: Group Therapy of Substance Abuse

Workshop 54: Short-Term Group Therapy for Complicated Grief

William Piper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA;

Rene Weideman, Ph.D.

Workshop 55: Co-Therapy with Child and Adolescent Groups

Kathryn Fisher, M.S., ATR, CGP;

Candace Sorensen, Ph.D.

Workshop 56: Women and Leadership

Chera Finnis, Psy.D., CGP; Robin Good, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 57: Group Psychotherapy Experiences with Seniors: Different Therapeutic Changes at Difference Age Levels

Beryce MacLennan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Hindy Nobler, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 58: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy: An Effective Model When You Only Have One Session

Neal Spivak, Ph.D., CGP

Friday, February 27

Lunch-Time Large Group Session
1:45 – 2:45 P.M.
 

The Large Group

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:30-8:30 am) and Saturday (2:30-5:45 pm)
Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA;

Friday, March 11
Afternoon Open Sessions
3:00 – 6:15 P.M.

Session 310: Creating Our "Best": Empiricism, intuition and Other Unlikely Bedfellows-A Roundtable with Senior Group Therapists

Gloria Batkin Kahn, Ed.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Sally Barlow, Ph.D., ABPP, ABGP, CGP; Harold Bernard, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA; Bruce Bernstein, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA; Bonnie Buchele, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA; David Kipper, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Session 311: Updating Group-As-A-Whole Theory and Practice

Session 312: Selling a Group Psychotherapy Program to Managed Care: Achieving Best Practice Through Collaboration

James Meyer, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Elizabeth Driscoll,

CSW, CGP; Andrea Fedouk, CSW, CGP; Howard

Markus, Ph.D., CGP; Joseph Russo, Psy.D., CGP;

Lynne Wheeler, MS.Ed., CAS

Friday, March 11
Afternoon Workshops
3:00 – 6:15 P.M.

Workshop 59: The Art of Culture-Building in the Group: An Experiential Journey

 Frederic Ilfeld, Jr., M.D., CGP; Barbara Squire-Ilfeld, M.S.N., RNCS, CGP

Workshop 60: The Tale of the Hero's Journey: The Use of Stories to Move Clients from Victim to Agent

Phyllis Cohen, Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP

Workshop 61: Semi-Permable Boundaries: Sexual Feelings in Group Psychotherapy

Scott Conkright, Psy.D.

Workshop 62: Defending Our Turf: Integrating Theory, Process, and Outcome Research

Francis Kaklauskas, M.A.

Workshop 63: Gaining Insight into Utilizing Group Process in the Training of the Therapist: An Experiential Workshop

George Gournas, M.D.; Mina Polemi-Todoulou, Ph.D., CGP; Kyriaki Protopsalti-Polychroni, M.A., CGP

Workshop 64: How to Teach the Principles of Group Therapy Course

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP

Workshop 65: Object Relations, Spiral Groups and Other Strange Happenings

Cecil Rice, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 66: Group Treatment for the Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill: A Best Practice Model for Psychoeducational Groups

Workshop 67: Identifying the Instinctive Behavioral Attachment Systems: Implications for Group Therapy

Una McCluskey, Ph.D.

Workshop 68: The Interpersonal Approach to Group Psychotherapy

Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC

Workshop 69: Group Therapy for Schizophrenic Patients

Nick Kanas, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 70: Peculiar Appetites: Use of Groups for the Spectrum of Eating Disorders

Helen Riess, M.D.; Deborah Vineberg, Psy.D.

Workshop 71: Resistance to Marketing a Thriving Independent Practice

Carol Dallinga, M.S.W., CGP; Howard Lorber, CSW-R

Workshop 72: The Place of Politics in a Psychodynamic Therapy Group

Susan Gutwill, M.S., M.S.W., CGP

Workshop 73: Child Group Psychotherapy: Best Practices in Private Practice

Andrew Pojman, Ed.D., CGP

Workshop 74: How to Survive and Thrive Leading Groups in Schools: Applications of Modern Group Process in Educational Settings (Trauma Protocol Follow-Up Event)

Toby Chuah-Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP; Connie Concannon, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA; David Dumais, M.S.W., CGP; Jacqueline Fish, M.S.W., CGP; Susan Frankel, M.S.W., CGP; Barbara Gangi, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP; Lucy Holmes, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, Leslie Quinn, M.S.W., Ph.D.

 

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Dance Party

Friday, March 11
9:00 P.M.

Kameleon

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