63rd Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Thursday, February 23

 

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:30 – 8:30 A.M.

 

Session 201: The Large Group

This session is also being held on Friday (1:45-2:45 pm) and Saturday (2:30-5:45 pm)
Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA 

 

Session 202: First Steps in AGPA: Two Group Therapists-in Training Reflect upon their First AGPA Experience

J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; David Dybdal, M.D., Ph.D.; Karin Hodges, B.A.

 

Session 203: Ethical Aspects of Money in Group Psychotherapy
Eleanor Komet, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Robert Pepper, CSW, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 204: Interpersonal Developmental Scales for Assessment & Outcome in Child, Adolescent & Adult Groups

Saul Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Richard Berke, Ph.D.

 

Session 205: The Best Groups are Safe Groups:  Dealing With Threats of Violence in Group Psychotherapy

Marian Yeager, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; Paul Ian Steinberg, M.D., FRCPC

 

Session 206: Trauma Group for Children and Adolescents Revisited (Trauma Protocol Follow-Up Event)

Saul Scheidlinger, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; Seth Aronson, Psy.D., CGP

 

Thursday, March 10
Conference Opening Plenary
8:45 – 10:15 A.M.

 

The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce:  Report on a 25-Year Study
Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D.

 

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

 

Workshop 1a:  The Writer in Group
Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 2a:  The Large Group: Exploring Theory and Leadership Styles
Carol Lark, Ph.D., ATR-BC, CGP; Robert Lipgar, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA; Orit Nuttman-Shwartz, Ph.D., CGP; Kevin Power, M.A.; Lauren Storck, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 3a: Effective Leadership:  Choices and Decision-Making
Harold Bernard, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Samuel James, Ed.D., ABPP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 4a: A Modern Analytic Approach to Working with Immediacy
Elliot Zeisel, Ph.D., M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 5a:  Helping the Helpers: A Training on AGPA's New Service Delivery Protocol for Mental Health Providers and Caregivers (Trauma Protocol Follow-Up Event)

Michael Andronico, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Trish Cleary, M.S., LCPC-MFT, CGP; Felicia Einhorn, M.S.W., CGP; Madelyn Miller, CSW, CGP; Emanuel Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Henry Spitz, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Margaret Yard, Ph.D.

 

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

 

Session 301: The Group Leader's Presence:  Vulnerability and Involvement

Nina Fieldsteel, Ph.D., FAGPA (Chair & Discussant);

Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC; Martin Livingston, Ph.D., CGP; Phyllis Wright, M.S.W.

 

Session 302: Developing Group Interventions in College Counseling Centers

Joshua Gross, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Patricia Alford-Keating, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Anne McEneaney, Ph.D.; Steven Van Wagoner, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 303: Evidence-Based Group Practice: Contrasting Perspectives on Empirically Supported, Practice Guidelines and Empirically Calibrated Approaches

Gary Burlingame, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; William Piper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Brent Slife, Ph.D., Bernhard Strauss, Ph.D.; Elke Zuercher-White, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP

 

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

 

Workshop 6: Beginning a New Group-Steps to Prepare Leader & Patients

Gregory MacColl, CSW, CGP

 

Workshop 7: Counter transference Resistance in Involuntary Groups:  The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Steven Henne, M.A., LPC, CACIII

Jeffrey Price, M.A., LPC, LAC, CGP

 

Workshop 8: Ethics in Group Psychotherapy: Perhaps Not So Simple

Eleanor Komet, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

D. Thomas Stone, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 9: Projective Identification Goes to the Movies

Joseph Shay, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 10: Lost in Translation:  The Supervisory Process

Eleanor Counselman, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 11: Exploring Anti-Group Forces in Training Groups

David Altfeld, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 12:  The Experiential Model:  Incorporating Psychodrama Procedures with Verbal Group Therapy

David Kipper, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 13: How to Work with Different Personality Adaptations

Vann Joines, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 14: The Body Knows, The Body Reveals

Nanine Ewing, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 15: Psychopharmacology For the Group Therapist

Robert Zeszotarski, M.D., CGP

 

Workshop 16: Group Therapy With Cognitively Impaired Individuals: Enhancing The Probability of Participation

Sharan Schwartzberg, Ed.D., OTR, FAOTA

 

Workshop 17: The Division Into "Us" and "Them" as a Universal Social Structure

Miriam Berger, M.A.

Avi Berman, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 18: Early Identifications with Opposite-Gender Parental Figures and its Subtle Effects on our Work as Group Leaders

Dan Raviv, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 19: The Reptilian Brain in Distressed Couples:  Creating A Safe Environment

Donald Ferguson, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 20: Integration of Evidence-Based Modules in Groups for Adolescents with Dual Diagnosis

Fern Cramer Azima, Ph.D., DFAGPA

 

Thursday, March 10

Afternoon Open Sessions
3:00 – 6:15 P.M.

 

Session 304: Live Supervision of a Group at Impasse

David Hawkins, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA,, Chair; Anne Alonso, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA; Elizabeth Shapiro, Ph.D.

 

Session 305: Infant Research and Attachment Systems Applied to Adult Group Psychotherapy

Irene Harwood, M.S.W., Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP,FAGPA, Chair; Arthur Gray, Ph.D.; Una McCluskey, Ph.D.; Denise Zalman, LCSW

 

Session 306: Practice Guidelines & Evidence-Based Research

John McIntyre, M.D., Chair; Bernard Arons, M.D., FAGPA; Darrell Regier, M.D.

 

Thursday, March 10
Afternoon Workshops
3:00 – 6:15 P.M.

 

Workshop 21: Managing Love and Hate in Group           Settings

Ronnie Levine, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 22: Instilling Hope in Group Patients:         Strategies for Promoting a Curative Factor

Jeffrey Kleinberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 23: Haunting Experiences: Ghostly Matters Throughout Our Lives

Bruce Bernstein, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 24: Authenticity and Self-Disclosure in Group Analysis

Arnold Rachman, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop 25: Organizational Consultation

Isaiah Zimmerman, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 26: The Soul is in the Details: The Phenomenological Therapy Group

Bernhard Kempler, Ph.D., ABPP

 

Workshop 27: Body-Oriented Group Psychotherapy

Scott Baum, Ph.D., ABPP

Elaine Tuccillo, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 28: Attachment and Immediacy in Group Therapy

Barbara Kuerer Gangi, Ph.D., CSW, CGP

 

Workshop 29: Integrating Systems-Centered (R) Practice with Happiness/Success Research

Richard O' Neill, Ph.D., FAClinP, CGP

 

Workshop 30: Group-As-A-Whole Theories

Mark Ettin, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 31: Finding Your Personal Best as an Adolescent Group Therapist

Seth Aronson, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA

Gloria Batkin Kahn, Ed.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 32: The Power of Women's Groups: Women Claiming Their Desire and Passion

Anne Oakley, Ph.D.

Judith Schoenholtz-Read, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 33: Group Therapy in Culturally Diverse Patient Populations

Alexis Abernethy, Ph.D., CGP; Maria Elena Lisac, Ph.D., CGP; Shivani Nath, M.S., Nolan Penn, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Siddharth Shah, M.D., MPH

 

Workshop 34: Sexual Health, Eroticism and Intimacy in Group Psychotherapy

Doug Braun-Harvey, M.A., CGP

Joel Frost, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 35: Psychodrama for Short-Term Inpatient Hospitalization

Samuel Klagsbrun, M.D., CGP

Lawrence Winters, BPS

 

Workshop 36: A Training Course for Intervening With Uniformed Service Personnel in the Aftermath of Disaster (Trauma Protocol Follow-Up Event)

George Everly, Jr., Ph.D.; Darryl Feldman,

PH.D., CGP; Dianne Kane, DSW, CGP;

Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., CGP

 

Friday Sessions and Workshops

 

Saturday Sessions and Workshops