Chairs:
Connie
Concannon, M.S.W., CGP,
Associate
Clinical Professor, University of California, Department of
Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA,
Toby Chuah
Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP,
Director,
Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fair Lawn, NJ
David Dumais,
M.S.W., CGP,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fair Lawn, NJ
Jacqueline
Fish, M.S.W., CGP,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fair Lawn, NJ
Susan Frankel, M.S.W., CGP,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fair Lawn, NJ
Barbara Gangi,
M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fair Lawn, NJ
Lucy Holmes,
M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fair Lawn, NJ
Leslie Quinn,
M.S.W., Ph.D.,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fair Lawn, NJ
Private
Practitioners will discuss their transition to group facilitators in
school settings, working with teachers, counselors, and students
K-12th grade. School-based applications of modern group
concepts will be described, discussed and experienced: contracting,
bridging, immediacy, joining, progressive communication, induced
feelings, symbolic communication, aggression and parallel process.
didactic-experiential-sharing of work experiences
Learning Objectives:
The
attendee will be able to:
1. Describe how
to detect and effectively respond to early resistances in groups
with children and adults in school settings
2. Identify
feelings induced while leading groups with children and adults in
school settings.
3. Utilize
applications of modern group process to respond effectively to
expressions of aggression in working with groups of children or
adults in school settings.
References:
1. Chuah, T.
& Jakubowicz, S. (1999) Enriching the Experience of Teaching Through
Understanding and Using Countertransference Feelings. Modern
Psychoanalysis, 24/2, pp. 211-231.
2. Ormont, L.
(1992)
The Group Therapy Experience: From Theory to Practice. St.
Martin's Press, New York.
3. Palmer, P.
(1998)
The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a
Teacher's Life. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California.
