64th Annual Conference
Friday, March 9
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M.-1:15
P.M.
Workshop
54
Group
Analysts in the Trenches: Taking Modern Group Process into the
Schools
Chairs:
Toby Chuah-Feinson, Ph.D., CGP,
Director,
Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fairlawn, New Jersey
David
Dumais, M.S.W., CGP,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fairlawn, New
Jersey
Lucy
Holmes, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fairlawn, New
Jersey
Leslie
Quinn, Ph.D., CGP,
Senior
Facilitator, Adventures in Teaching and Counseling, Fairlawn, New
Jersey
Private
practitioners will discuss and demonstrate issues and dilemmas faced
in their transition to group facilitators in school settings,
working with teachers, counselors and students K-12th grade. School
based applications of key modern group concepts will be described,
discussed, modeled and experienced: contracting, bridging,
immediacy, joining, symbolic communication, progressive communication, induced feelings, aggression, parallel process and
co-leadership.
demonstration,
experiential, sharing of work experiences, didactic
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Detect and effectively respond to early resistances in groups
with children and adults in school settings.
2. Detect, understand and effectively utilize feelings induced while
leading groups with children and adults in school settings.
3. Utilize applications of modern group process to respond
effectively to expressions of aggression in school groups with
children and adults.
Course
References:
1. Chuah, T. and
Jakubowicz, S. (1999). Enriching the Experience of Teaching Through
Understanding and Using Countertransference Feelings. Modern
Psychoanalysis. 24(2), 211-231.
2. Chuah Feinson, T. (2006). Ghosts in the Classroom: A modern group
approach to consultation groups in schools. Group. Winter. 3 (in
press)
3. Ormont, L. (1992) What the Therapist Feels. The Group Therapy
Experience: From theory to practice. New York, St. Martin's Press. 51-82.
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