63rd Annual Conference

Sessions and Workshops

Friday, February 24

Don Turner, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Diane Reid, R.N., Ph.D., FAGPA; F. Theodore Reid, Jr., M.D., DFAGPA

Session 213: Laughter and Tears in Group Therapy

Robert Weber, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Session 214: What Should Group Therapists Know About Interpersonal Neurobiology?

David Brook, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Paul Cox, M.D., CGP

Session 215: The Power of the Human-Animal Bond in an Interactive Play Group

Kate Nicoll, M.S.W.

Session 216: Group Analysts in the Trenches: Taking Modern Group Process into the Schools

Toby Chuah Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP

Session 217: The Efficacy of Groups in Wellness and Recovery Models

Robert Klein, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Stephan Betz, Ph.D.; Richard DeGette

Friday, February 24

Presidential Address
8:45 – 9:45 A.M.

Beyond Survival: The Role of AGPA in the "Bowling Alone" World of the 21st Century

Elizabeth Knight, LMSW, CGP, FAGPA

Friday, February 24
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M.– 1:15 P.M. & 2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

Workshop 34a: RoundTable Theatre: Bridging the Differences Internally and Externally

Elizabeth Berney, Ph.D.; Joseph Mancini, Jr., M.S.W., DCSW, Ph.D., MSOD, CGP, CHT

Workshop 35a: Working with Differences Within and Between Groups: A Group Relations/Tavistock Model

Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D.; Dannielle Kennedy, LICSW, Ph.D.

Workshop 36a: When the Therapist Leaves: Meaning for Both Patient and Therapist

Nina Fieldsteel, Ph.D., FAGPA

Friday, February 24
Morning Three-Hour Open Sessions
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Session 307:  Demonstrating Functional Subgrouping

Carol Lark, Ph.D., ATR-BC, CGP, Chair;  Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA; Susan Gantt, Ph.D., CGP, ABPP; Robert Lipgar, Ph.D., ABPP, FAGPA

Session 308: Distressed but Not Doomed: Risk and Resilience in Children of Divorce

Session 309: Developing Group Intervention in College Counseling Center

Joshua Gross, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Robert Gleave, Ph.D., CGP; Miriam Iosupovici, M.S.W.; Anne Slocum McEneaney, Ph.D.

Friday, February 24

Morning Continuous One-Hour Open Sessions
 

Session 218: "What the Heck Just Happened to Me?" Helping New Trainees to Negotiate Flexible Boundaries in the AGPA Institutes (10:00 - 11:00 am)

David Dybdal, M.D.; Karin Hodges, M.S.; Elizabeth Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP

Session 219: Linked for Life: How Our Siblings Affect Our Lives (11:00 am - 12:00 noon)

Marvin Todd, Ph.D.

Session 220: Role Strain of Nurses Who Take Care of SARS Victims (12:00 noon - 1:00 pm)

Hsien-Hsien Chiang

Friday, February 24
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Workshop 37: Getting It On Paper

Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP

Master Workshop 38: Therapeutic Ideals and Therapists Humanity: Secrets, Shame and Guilt

Esther Stone, M.S.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 39: Social Dreaming Matrix (Part 1)

Mary Dluhy, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA; Seymour Rubenfeld, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 40: Therapist Responses to Patient Challenges in Group Therapy

William Piper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Rene Weideman, Ph.D.

Workshop 41: The Therapist's Professional Will: A Practice Necessity

Anne Steiner, Ph.D., FAGPA

Workshop 42: Integrating Martial Arts Principles of Grounding & Breathing into Group Psychotherapy

Natan HarPaz, Ph.D., ACSW, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 43: Dilemmas in Group Therapy: A Sharing Experience of Their Dilemmas

Etta Martin, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 44: Individual Stories Seeking Meaning in a Group Theme: A Systemic Group Therapy Model Using Drawings

George Gournas, M.D.; Mina Polemi-Todoulou, Ph.D.

Workshop 45: Healing the Healer

Randy Lehrer, M.S.W., CGP; Kenneth Rosenberg, M.D.

Workshop 46: Intensive Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy for Severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Throstur Bjorgvinsson, Ph.D.

Workshop 47: Group Therapy for Schizophrenic Patients

Nick Kanas, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 48: Transpersonal Group Psychotherapy

Workshop 49: Mini-Groups: An Underused Treatment Modality for Special Children

Jo Hariton, Ph.D., CGP; Saul Scheidlinger, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA

Workshop 50: Early Parental Loss (Childhood to Age 25): Integrating Task of Separation & Continuity

Mary Sussillo, LCSW, BCD

Workshop 51: Group Psychotherapy Experience with Seniors: Different Therapeutic Changes at Different Age Levels

Beryce MacLennan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Hindy Nobler, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 52: The One and the Many: Exclusive LGBT Groups and LGBT Group Members in Predominantly Heterosecual Groups

Pat Alford-Keating, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Douglas Braun-Harvey, MFT; Jamie Moran, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP

Friday, February 24

Lunch-Time Large Group Session
1:30 – 2:30 P.M.
 

The Large Group

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:15-8:15 am) and Saturday (2:15-5:30 pm)
Martha Gilmore, Ph.D., CGP; Haim Weinberg, M.A.;

Friday, February 24

Afternoon Three-Hour Open Sessions
2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

Session 310: On Treating the Group from Hell

Anne Alonso, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; Priscilla Kauff, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Session 311: Over the Influence, or Just Say Know: Three Approaches to Working with Addicted Patients

Robert Unger, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Jeannie Little, M.S.W., CGP; Jeffrey Roth, M.D., CGP, FAGPA; Jeffrey Foote, Ph.D.

Session 312: The Social Unconscious and the Large Group

Stanley Schneider, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Stephanie Fariss, JD, LCSW; Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Werner Knauss, Dipl.Psych.

Friday, February 24

Afternoon Continuous One-Hour Open Sessions
 

Session 221: Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse Group Psychotherapy: Different Patterns, Different Approaches (3:00-4:00 pm)

Cara Beames, M.A.; Noel Larson, M.S.W., Ph.D.

Session 222: Bridging Team-Building and Group Therapy: Using Physical Games and Activities to Enhance Trust and Support in Groups (4:00-5:00 pm)

Session 223: Trauma and the Body: Applying Principles of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in a Group for Female Trauma Survivors (5:00-6:00 pm)

Michael Gitberg, R.N., M.A.

Friday, February 24
Afternoon Workshops
2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

Workshop 53: A Life in Transition: What Can We Learn from the Caterpillar?

 Bruce Bernstein, Ph.D., ABPP, FAGPA

Workshop 54: Personal Change in the Later Phases of Group Development

Ariadne Beck, M.A., CGP

Workshop 55: Fairytale Themes: Living Symbols in Therapy Groups

Bernhard Kempler, Ph.D., ABPP

Workshop 56: Courage of the Group Therapist

Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 57: How to Teach the Principles of Group Psychotherapy Course

Jeanne Pasternak, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 58: Caught in the Black Pit of Depression: What Hurts, What Helps, What Heals

Phyllis Cohen, Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP

Workshop 59: How We Talk: Using a Communication Tool (SAVI) to Reduce Restraining Forces to Group Development and Integration of Differences

Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 60: The Art of Resilience

Workshop 61: Coping with Shame-the Analyst's and the Patient's: A Self Psychological Perspective

Louisa Livingston, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 62: Object Relations Group Psychotherapy

Ramon Ganzarain, M.D., FAGPA

Workshop 63: Personality Disorders Go to the Movies

Joseph Shay, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 64: The Pair and the Person: The Group Analytic Approach to Relationship Problems

John Schlapobersky, B.A., MSC

Workshop 65: Couple Group Therapy: Today's Overstressed and Overstretched Couples

Ian Alger, M.D., CGP, FAGPA; Barbara Feld, M.S.W., CGP

Workshop 66: Keeping Passion Alive: The Power of Women's Groups

Anne Oakley, Ph.D.; Judith Schoenholtz-Read, Ed.D., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 67: The Internalized Father

Isaac Youcha, LCSW

Workshop 68: The Group Therapist's Dance of Prosperity

Peter Cole, LCSW, ChFC; Daisy Reese, LCSW

 

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Dance Party

Friday, February 24
9:00 P.M.

All-Star Jukebox

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