63rd Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Saturday, February 25

 

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

 

Session 224: Psychotherapy Groups in the Home Office Setting-Relevant Issues

Robert Pepper, CSW, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 225:  A Laughing Stock: Group Porcessing Using "Laughing Club" Mind-Body Methods

Siddharth Shah, M.D., MPH

 

Session 226: Cultural Diversity Training: Treating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Clients

Joel Frost, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Joseph Amico, M.Div.

 

Session 227: Great Teaching Ideas for Graduate Courses on Groups

Lorraine Wodiska, Ph.D.

 

Session 228: Inpatient Groups in an Age of Brief Treatment: Is There Time for a Group in the House?

Arnold Cohen, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Catherine Deering, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 229: Ethics in Group Psychotherapy: Recordkeeping and Professional Liability

Sherrie Smith, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Saturday, February 25
All-Day Workshops

8:45 A.M.– 12:00 P.M. & 2:15 – 5:30 P.M.

 

Workshop 69a: Sexual Transference and Countertransference: Hope and Dread

Scott Conkright, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 70a: Interpersonal Gestalt

Judye Hess, Psy.D., CGP

 

Saturday, February 25
Morning Continuous One-Hour Open Sessions
 

Session 230: The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women

(8:45-9:45 am)

Joan Lachkar, Ph.D.

 

Session 231: Interactions Between Large Online Groups (9:45-10:45 am)

Robert Hsiung, M.D.

 

Session 232: Psychoanalytic Group Treatment in the Boyer House Community (10:45-11:45 am)

Paul Alexander, Ph.D.; Edit Markoczy, Psy.D.; Amy Bandera, Psy.D.

 

Saturday, February 25
Morning Three-Hour Open Sessions
8:45 A.M. – 12:00 noon

 

Session 313: Using a Dramatic Play to Illustrate Relational and Group Dynamics

Robert Schulte, M.S.W., CGP, Chair; John Dluhy, M.D., CGP, FAGPA,; Philip Flores, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; David Hawkins, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA; John Thomas, M.D., M.S.W.; Thomas Wessel, Ed.D., CGP

 

Session 314: Language, Culture and Politics: How Gorups Influence and Shape Public Opinion

Bill Roller, M.A., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D.; David Victor Harris; Robin Lakoff, Ph.D.; Terry Allen Kupers, M.D., M.S.P.

 

Session 315: Spirituality and Group Therapy: Allies in Maturation

Kenneth Porter, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Dale Godby, Ph.D., CGP; Susan Nummanheminda, LCSW, CGP; Victor Schermer, M.A., LPC, CAC, CGP; Alexis Abernethy, Ph.D., CGP

 

Saturday, February 25
Morning Workshops
8:45
A.M. – 12:00 noon

 

Workshop 71: The Steering Problem: Navigating Among Competing Group Agendas

Neal Spivack, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 72: Bridging the Pain: Countertransference in Involuntary Groups

Steven Henne, M.A., LPC, LAC; Jeffrey Price, M.S.W., LPC, LAC, CGP

 

Workshop 73: Social Dreaming Matrix (Part 2)

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

 

Workshop 74: The Rites and Rights of Writing: On Contributing to the Group Psychological Literature

Les Greene, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop 75: Money and Me: The Group Therapist's Personal and Professional Relationship with Money

James Collins, LCSW; Mary Nicholas, LCSW, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 76: Integrating Individual and Group Psychotherapies: Bridging the Gap with EMDR

Katherine Steele, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 77: Jungian Approaches to Group Psychotherapy

Justin Hecht, Ph.D.; Robert Tyminski, D.M.H.

 

Workshop 78: Healing the Wounds of History: Theatre and Ritual in Intercultural Conflict Resolution

Armand Volkas, M.F.A., M.A., MFT, RDT/BCT

 

Workshop 79: Reflections on Self-Disclosure: Deepening Our Work or Losing Our Balance?

Margaret Postlewaite, Ph.D., CGP; Ona Robinson, Ph.D.; Peter Taylor, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 80: A Substance Called Food

Deborah Schwartz, M.D., CGP; Jeffrey Roth, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 81: Using Group Techniques to Manage Traumatic Situations

Mark Mittauer, M.D.; Edward Simmer, M.D., M.P.H., CGP

 

Workshop 82: Filial Therapy: A Short Term Group Approach to Work with Parents and Children

Michael Andronico, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 83: Therapist Led Support Groups for Cancer Patients

Shari Baron, M.D.N., R.N., CS, CGP

 

Workshop 84: Group Psychological First Aid: A Training Course for Utilizing the Group to Facilitate Psychological First Aid

George Everly, Jr., Ph.D., ABPP, FAPM; Darryl Feldman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Dianne Kane, D.S.W., CGP; Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 85: Virginia Stephens Woolf: 1882-1941 Finding One's Own Sense of Agency Through Groups: Who Do You Think You Are???

Joyce Dagnal Sheilds, APRN, BC, CGP

 

Saturday, February 25

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Luncheon
12:15 – 2:00 P.M.

San Francisco Taiko Dojo

 

Saturday, February 25
Afternoon Open Session
2:15 – 5:30 P.M.

 

Session 316: The Large Group

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:15-8:15 am) and Friday (1:30-2:30 pm)

Haim Weinberg, M.A.; Martha Gilmore, Ph.D., CGP

 

Saturday, February 25
Afternoon Workshops
2:15 – 5:30 P.M.

 

Workshop 86: The 3 R's in Relational Group Psychotherapy: Resistance, Rebellion, Refusal

Richard Billow, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 87: Enriching Emotional Experience through Group Work with Dreams: An Experiential Workshop

Karen Shore, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 88: Saying Goodbye: A Means to the End

Jeffrey Mendell, M.D., CGP; Marsha Vannicelli, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 89: The Sound of One Therapist Not Talking: The Buddhist View of No Self and its Implication on Group Dynamic Interventions

William Sell, M.A., CGP

 

Workshop 90: Identifying the Instinctive Behavioral Attachment Systems: Implications for Group Therapy

Una McCluskey, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 91: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: What it is, and How it Works

Patrick Thornton, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 92: Prevention of Insecure Disorganized Attachment with High Risk Traumatized Mothers

Irene Harwood, M.S.W., Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 93: "Here & Now and There & Then"-Paradoxes Present in Group Psychotherapy

Robert Carlson, M.Div., M.S.W., CGP

 

Workshop 94: Healing the Divide Between Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy

Mary Jo Armatruda, LPC, TEP, CGP; Louise Lipman, LCSW, CSW, TEP, CGP

 

Workshop 95:  Redecision Therapy in Action: The Experience of Change

Shari Porter Jung, LMSW-ACP, LMFT, CGP; Marti Kranzberg, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 96: An Interpersonal Approach for Group Therapy with Children: Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Practice

Scott Salathe, Psy.D.; Tony Sheppard, Psy.D., CGP

 

Thursday Sessions and Workshops

 

Friday Sessions and Workshops