62nd Annual Conference

Chairs:

Rosalind Forti, L.IC.S.W., M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, Private Practice, Ludlow, MA

Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D., CGP, Professor, Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, NH

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience

Endings in group are potentially meaningful and complicated for client and therapist.  This workshop addresses ethical issues around termination, including abandonment, dual relationships, privacy, confidentiality, boundaries, finances, and informed consent, and transferential and countertransferential aspects that make them more compelling.  Short and long term groups, planned and unplanned terminations, and child and adult populations are included.

Sharing work experiences-didactic-experiential-demonstration

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Discuss potential ethical issues around termination.

2. Distinguish between ethical and clinical issues.

3. Identify strategies for dealing with countertransference around ethical issues in termination.

 1.  Corey, G., Williams, G.T., & Moline, M.E. (1995). Ethical and legal issues in group counseling.  Ethics and Behavior, 5 (2), 161-183.

2.  Schafer, R. (1973). The termination of brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. II: 135-148.

3.  Surowiecki, J. (2004). The financial page: Board stiffs.  The New Yorker, March 8, 30.