64th Annual Conference

Thursday, March 8

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M.-1:15 P.M.

Workshop 11

What's it Worth? Money Matters in Group

Chair:         

Michael Hegener, M.A., LPC, CGP, Private Practice, Austin, Texas

Money is often an area of primary vulnerability in our lives.  As a symbol of the "transactions" of relationship, money can help us to understand ourselves and our patients. This workshop will help group therapists explore their own relationships with money and to assist their groups in translating this powerful form of communication.      

sharing of work experiences, didactic, experiential, demonstration

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify their “money type,” as an indication of their own relationship with money.
2. Compare and contrast their own relationship with money with that of their group members.
3. Define the concept of symbolic communication, and give examples of ways in which money can be used as a form of symbolic communication.

Course References:

1. Cohen, P. (1996). Symbolic Communication in Modern Group Therapy.  Modern Group, 1(1), 19-31.
2. Gans, J. (1999).  Money and Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 42(1), 133-152.
3. Forward, S. and Buck, C. (1994).  Money Demons:  Keeping them from sabotaging your relationships and your life.  New York:  Bantam Books.