64th Annual Conference
Friday, March 9
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M.-1:15
P.M.
Workshop 41
No Way
to Say Goodbye:
Disruptive Endings in the Life of Group
Chair:
Jennifer
Harp, Ph.D., CGP,
Private
Practice, State College, Pennsylvania
Sudden,
disturbing or traumatic endings in psychotherapy groups leave the
group, group members, and group leaders with a profound sense of
betrayal and disorientation. This experiential workshop will explore
the significant impact of such inevitable losses, as well as the
unexpected opportunities such events may hold for understanding,
healing, and growth.
experiential,
sharing
of work experiences, demonstration, didactic
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Explain the significance and inter-relationships of termination,
loss, sudden loss, and meaning-making in the developmental life of
the group.
2. Distinguish among various clinical approaches that are likely to
promote or discourage group adaptation and working through in the
midst of traumatic group loss.
3. Analyze own experiences with traumatic loss in a manner that
allows for greater effectiveness in clinical work and group
experience.
4. Describe and more fully understand own reactions and resistances
to loss, disruption, change, and group difficulty as an aspect of
self that has unique meaning and related meaning for the group.
Course
References:
1. Kauffman, J. (2002).
Loss of the Assumptive World: A theory of traumatic loss.
New York: Taylor & Francis.
2. Novick, J. (1997). Termination: Conceivable and
inconceivable. Psychoanalytic psychology. 14, 145-162.
3. Rice, C. (1996). Premature Termination of Group Psychotherapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 46, 5-23.
4.
Winnicott, D.
(1963, 1965). From Dependence Towards Independence in the
Development of the Individual. In D. Winnicott,
The Maturational
Processes and the Facilitating Environment. New York: International
Universities Press.
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