63rd Annual Conference

Friday, February 24

Early Bird Open Sessions

7:15 A.M. – 8:15 A.M.

Session 216           

Group Analysts in the Trenches: Taking Modern Group Process into the Schools

Presenter:         

Toby Chuah Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, Director, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, New York, New York

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 key modern group concepts will be described, discussed, modeled and experienced: contracting, bridging, immediacy, joining, symbolic communication, progressive communication, induced feelings, aggression, parallel process and co-leadership.

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Detect and effectively respond to early resistances in groups with children and adults in school settings.

2. Detect, understand and effectively utilize 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 school groups with children or adults.

Course References:

1. Chuah, T. & Jakubowicz, S. (1999). Enriching the Experience of Teaching Through Understanding and Using Countertransference Feelings. Modern Psychoanalysis, 24(2), 211-231.

2. Ormont, L. (1992) What the Therapist Feels. The Group Therapy Experience: From theory to practice. New York: St. Martin's Press. 51-82.

3. Palmer, P. (1998). A Culture of Fear: Education and the disconnected life. The

Courage to Teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life. San Francisco:

Jossey-Bass. 35-60.