62nd Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Saturday, March 12

 

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:45 – 8:45 A.M.

 

Session 213: Master's Circle: Plato's           Cave

Bernard Frankel, Ph.D., BCD, FAGPA, Chair; Hillel Swiller, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 214:  The Fit Modern Group Model: Three Keys to Creating Successful Short-Term Groups

Felicia Einhorn, LCSW, CGP, Chair;

Martha Gunzburg, M.S.W., CGP

Session 215: Healing the Wounded Heart: Effectiveness of Group Interventions to Promote Forgiveness

Susanne Jensen, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Nathaniel Wade, Ph.D.

 

Session 216: Group Work with Siblings of Children with Special Needs: "My Brother is Disabled, Am I?" Identification with a Disabled Sibling

Judith Tellerman, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Eleanore Rothberg, Ph.D., CSW, CGP

 

Session 217: Healing Through Strength: A Group Approach to Therapeutic Enactment with Children and Adolescents

Joan Medway, Ph.D., LCSW, CGP, Chair; Craig Haen, M.A., RDT, CGP; Emily Nash, B.A.

 

Saturday, March 12
All-Day Workshops
9:00 A.M.– 12:15 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:45 P.M.

 

Workshop 75a: Exploring Gender Issues in the Family of Origin

 Alice Byrne, M.S.W., CGP; Jerome Leff, M.S.W., CGP; Lois Kennedy, Psy.D., Emanuel Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 76a: Fostering Growth in Women Group Leaders: Issues in Female Development

Hylene Dublin, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 77a: Group Treatment of Survivors of Mass Violence (Trauma Protocol Follow-Up Event)

Janet Bauman, CSW, CGP, Shoshana Ben-Noam, Psy.D., CGP

 

Saturday, March 12
Morning Open Sessions
9:00 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.

 

Session 313: The Crisis of Hatred: The Negative Transferences in Developing Groups

Ken Eisold, Ph.D., Chair; Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA; Richard Billow, Ph.D.; Susan Gantt, Ph.D., CGP; Michael Stiers, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 314: Group Principles for Children of Divorce and Children with ADHD

M. Gawain Wells, Ph.D., Chair; Jennifer Ellsworth, B.S.

 

Session 315: Excitement Within the Group: Patient and Therapist Contribution

Gil Spielberg, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA,Chair; Stewart Aledort, M.D., CGP; Sara Emerson, LICSW, CGP, FAGPA;

Louis Ormont, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

 

Saturday, March 12
Morning Workshops
9:00 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.

 

Workshop 78: The Developmental Stages of Psychotherapy Group

Elinor Dunn Grayer, M.S.W., Ph.D., BCD, CGP

 

Workshop 79: Ethics and Endings

Rosalind Forti, LICSW, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP; Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 80: Enhancing the Skills of the Group Supervisor

Stanley Teitelbaum, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 81: Utilizing Non-Verbal cues in Redecision Therapy: A Short-Term Treatment Approach

Michael Andronico, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 82: Working with Resistance Using Psychodrama

Rebecca Walters, M.S., TEP

 

Workshop 83: Organizational Dynamics: An Experiential Introduction

Edward Shapiro, M.D.

 

Workshop 84: Using the Power of the Moment in Understanding the Past

Gail Brown, M.A.

 

Workshop 85: Group Treatment For Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Their Non-Offending Caregivers

Jennifer Ayres, Ph.D., Tara Shuman, Psy.D.

 

Workshop 86: Special Techniques with Narcissistic Patients

Raymond Battegay, M.D., FAGPA, Leonard Horwitz, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

 

Workshop 87: Who Says I Can't Drink: Working with Unresolved Substance Abuse

Jeannie Little, M.S.W., CGP

 

Workshop 88: Developing Social Skills Training Groups for Children

Cathi Cohen, LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 89: Beyond the Grave: Adult Treatment of Adolescent Parental Loss

Mary Sussillo, CSW, BCD

 

Workshop 90: Group Psychotherapy for Success-Avoidant Men

Robert Weinstein, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Ellen Wright, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 91: Integrated Couples Therapy: Interanalytic Couples Therapy, Attachment Treatment & Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Walter Brackelmanns, M.D.

 

Workshop 92: Community Outreach Strategies for AGPA Affiliates

Randi Cohen, ACSW, M.A., CGP

Diane Feirman, CAE

 

Saturday, March 12
Group Psychotherapy Foundation Luncheon
12:30 – 2:15 P.M.

Way Off Broadway!

 

Saturday, March 12
Afternoon Open Session
2:30 – 5:45 P.M.

 

Session 316: The Large Group

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:30-8:30 am) and Friday (1:45-2:45 pm)

Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Saturday, March 12
Afternoon Workshops
2:30 – 5:45 P.M.

 

Workshop 93: Communication Patterns in the Phases of Group Development

Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 94: Here and Now: The Therapist Contribution to Immediacy and/or Disengagement in the Group

Sara Emerson, LICSW, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 95: Termination: Getting to the Good in Goodbye

Jeffrey Mendell, M.D., CGP

Marsha Vannicelli, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 96: The Triadic Interaction of Aggression, Projection, and Boundaries in Group Process

Sheila Cummings, Ph.D., CGP; Lisa Lindsay,Ph.D.; Lisa Willis, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 97: Making Research Work for You: A Practical Practice Guide

Judith Coche, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 98: Synergistic Group Therapy: Integrating Spirituality and Energy Psychology

Henry Grayson, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop 99: Co-Therapy Led Group Psychotherapy: Countertransference, Conflict and Cohesion

Barbara Kidder, M.A.; Eugene Kidder,

M.Div., CGP

 

Workshop 100: The Use of Axiodrama, Psychodrama and Sociodrama in Relation to National and International Conflicts, Including War

Rene Marineau, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 101: The Group Therapist's Dance of Prosperity

Peter Cole, LCSW; Daisy Reese, M.S.W.

 

Workshop 102: The Five Cycles of Emotional Abuse: A Personal/Professional/Political Continuum: Origin, Implications and Treatment Through Group Therapists

SaraKay Smullens, M.S.W.

 

Workshop 103: Helping Children and Families Cope with Traumatic Loss (Trauma Protocol Follow-Up Event)

Craig Haen, M.A., RDT, CGP; Nicci Spinazolla, Ed.S., LMFT, LPC, CGP; Maureen Underwood, ACSW, CGP

 

Workshop 104: A Modern Psychoanalytic Approach to Adolescent Group Psychotherapy

David Kahn, M.D., CGP

 

Workshop 105: Intervention with Couples: The Effective Application of Group Principles (Trauma Protocol Follow-Up Event)

Dianne Kane, DSW, CGP; Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., CGP

 

Thursday Sessions and Workshops

 

Friday Sessions and Workshops