Thursday Conference Session and Workshops

64th Annual Conference

Sessions and Workshops

Thursday, March 8

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:15 – 8:15 A.M.

Session 201: The Large Group

Chair: Michael Stiers, Ph.D., CGP; Leaders:

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

This session is also being held on Friday (1:30-2:30 pm) and Saturday (2:15-5:30 pm)

Session 202: The Significance of Patients' Drawings and Paintings in Group Psychotherapy

Revaz Korinteli, M.D.

Session 203: Body and Earth in Group Therapy

Charlotte Howard, Ph.D.

Session 204: Psychopharmacology for Group Psychotherapists

David Brook, M.D., CGP, LFAGPA

Session 205: Using Forbidden Affects in Group Therapy: The Leader's Desire and Aggression

Rosemary Segalla, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Andrew Eig, Ph.D.

Session 206: You Can Never Go Home Again, You Will Never Stop Trying: The Promise of Joining a Professional Organization

Karin Hodges, M.S., Chair; Theodore Ellenhorn, Ph.D.; Dagmar Kaufmann, M.A.

Thursday, March 8
Conference Opening Plenary
8:30 – 9:45 A.M.

The Social-Psychological Aspects of Traumatic Experiences: Comments on the Healing Process

Anna Ornstein, M.D.

Thursday, March 8
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M.– 1:15 P.M. & 2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

Master Workshop 1a: Three Personal and Interpersonal Uses of Dreams in Groups

Robi Friedman, Ph.D.

Workshop 2a: RoundTable Theatre: The Promise of Group Improvisation
Elizabeth Berney, M.A., Ph.D.; Joseph Mancini, Jr., M.S.W., Ph.D., MSOD, CGP, CCHt

Workshop 3a: The Promise of Group Psychotherapy, Medication and Interpersonal Neurobiology

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP; Kenneth Pollock, Ph.D., CGP

Thursday, March 8
Morning Open Sessions
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Session 301: Supervising Group Therapists: What is Most Important?

Harold Bernard, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; David Altfeld, Ph.D., CGP, LFAGPA; Elaine Cooper, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Sherrie Smith, LCSW-R, CGP, FAGPA

Session 302: Echoes of Katrina: Effects on Therapists and the Community

Fern Cramer Azima, Ph.D., DFAGPA, Chair; Doug Greve, M.D., CGP, LFAGPA; Jeffrey Kleinberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; D. Thomas Stone, Jr., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Karen Travis, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

Session 303: Group Work with Adolescents in Various Contexts

Saul Scheidlinger, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; Seth Aronson, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA; Craig Haen, M.A., RDT, CGP; Thomas Hurster, M.S.S., CGP; Gloria Batkin Kahn, Ed.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA; Elaine Leader, Ph.D., CGP; Judith Tellerman, Ph.D., CGP

Thursday, March 8

Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Workshop 4: The Negative Impact of Advice Giving in the Psychodynamic Group Setting

Janet Resnick, Ph.D., M.A., M.S.

Workshop 5: Membership or Merger, Individuation or Repudiation: The Development of the Self in the Group

Robert Berley, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 6: The Integrity of Here: Clinical Musings on the Comings and Goings in Groups
Julie Anderson, Ph.D., CGP

Master Workshop 7: Adoption as a Metaphor/Reality for Feelings and Fantasies of Alienation

Alice Byrne, CSW, CGP; Lois Kennedy, Psy.D.; Jerome Leff, M.S.W., BCD; Emanuel Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 8: Therapist Responses to the Patient Challenges to the Therapist

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

Workshop 9: Promoting Affect Development Within an Integrated Model of Group Psychotherapy

Paul Kaye, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 10: Co-Therapy: Harmonizing Two Distinct and Equal Partners

Barbara Kidder, M.A.; Eugene Kidder, M.Div., CGP

Workshop 11: What's it Worth? Money Matters in Group

Michael Hegener, M.A., LPC, CGP

Workshop 12: Challenging and Clarifying: Art and Action Methods in Group Therapy Training

Carol Lark, M.A., Ph.D., ATR-BC, CGP

Workshop 13: "Facing" Ourselves and Each Other in Our Groups

Pamela Torraco, M.S.W.

Workshop 14: Dancing with the Unconscious

Nanine Ewing, Ph.D., ADTR, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 15: Eating Disorders: The Group as a Conduit to Healing

Patricia Kyle Dennis, Ph.D., CGP; Anne Slocum McEneaney, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 16: The Reptilian Brain in Distressed Couples: Creating a Safe Environment

Don Ferguson, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 17: Group Therapy with Cognitively Impaired Individuals

Mary Barnes, B.S., OTR/L; Sharan Schwartzberg, Ed.D., OTR/L

Workshop 18: Early Identifications with Opposite-Gender Parental Figures and its Subtle Effects on our Work as Group Leaders

Dav Raviv, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 19: SOS: A Strengths-Based Group Model for Kids K-12

Katherine Synatschk, Ph.D.; Patricia Tollison, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 20: The Group Therapist as Corporate Trainer

Rick Tivers, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP

Thursday, March 8

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

Session 304: Facilitating Secure Attachment and Preventing the Insecure Disorganized Attachment, at Least

Irene Harwood M.S.W., Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Arthur Gray, Ph.D.; Emanuel Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Session 305: Video of Object Relations Group Psychotherapy

Stephen Saeks, Ph.D., Chair; Ramon Ganzarain, M.D., DFAGPA; Marianne Robinson, M.S.W., CGP, Discussant

Session 306: Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Group Psychotherapy

Richard Billow, Ph.D., Chair; Barbara Cohn, Ph.D., ABPP, FAGPA; Darryl Feldman, Ph.D., CGP; Bernard Frankel, M.S.W., Ph.D., BCD, FAGPA; David Hescheles, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA

Thursday, March 8
Afternoon Workshops
2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

Workshop 21: A Group Dialogue About Values and Ethics

Eleanor Komet, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; D. Thomas Stone, Jr., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Master Workshop 22: Therapeutic Ideals and Therapists' Humanity: Secrets, Shame and Guilt

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

Workshop 23: Regression in the Service of Training: The Role of Mentors in the Development of the Psychotherapist

David Dybdal, M.D., Ph.D.; Karin Hodges, M.S.

Workshop 24: Identifying the Instinctive Behavioral Attachment Systems

Una McCluskey, Ph.D.

Workshop 25: Locker Room Power: Group Therapy Principles in a Non-Traditional Setting

Cindy Miller Aron, M.S.W., CGP

Master Workshop 26: On Psychological Writing: Getting it Published