64th Annual Conference

Thursday, March 10

All-Day Workshops

9:00 A.M.-5:45 P.M.

Workshop 3a

The Promise of Group Psychotherapy, Medication, and Interpersonal Neurobiology

Chairs:         

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California

Kenneth Pollock, Ph.D., CGP, Director of Group Psychotherapy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York

Group therapy and medication change brains, minds, and lives. Interpersonal neurobiology can provide a comprehensive, understandable framework for clients and clinicians. Workshop participants will practice integrating this powerful heuristic into pre-group preparation for patients whose prior treatment was solely pharmacological. Highlighting the richness of cross discipline co-therapy, participants will share and refine strategies for combining medications and group therapy.

experiential, sharing of work experiences, didactic, demonstration

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Describe how interpersonal neurobiology frames the combination of medication and group psychotherapy.
2. Solve practical problems of combined-treatments.
3. Utilize combined treatments, as a way to introduce patients to group therapy and to exploit a wider range of group psychotherapy opportunities
 

Course References:

1. Siegel, D. (1999). The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience. New York: Guildford.
2. McIntosh, D., Stone, W., and Grace, M. (1991). The Flexible Boundaried Group: Format, techniques, and patients' perceptions. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 41, 49-64.
3. Cox P., Ilfeld F., Squire Ilfeld B., Brennan C. (2000). Administrators and Group Therapists Collaborating in Group Program Development. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 56:1. 4-28.