64th
Annual Conference
Saturday, March 9
All-Day Workshops
8:45 –12:00
P.M. & 2:15-5:30 P.M.
Workshop
72a
Contrasting Models:
Social Constructivism,
Systems Centered Therapy
TM,
and Self
Psychology
Chairs:
Louisa Livingston, Ph.D., CGP,
Sydnor Sikes, Ph.D., ACP, CGP,
Fred Wright, Ph.D.,
Three clinicians conceptualize and
lead consecutive demonstration groups based on their respective
orientations. Participants sample the differing theoretical models,
volunteering and/or observing the groups.
Wright, representing a social constructivist perspective, emphasizes
the centrality of immersion in group life, consequent development of
shared meanings, and collective identity. Livingston’s
self-psychological orientation emphasizes individual developmental
needs and encourages member interaction, simultaneously exploring
their unique subjectivity and deepening affective experience. Sikes
presents Systems Centered Therapy TM, Agazarian’s innovative
approach that creates change by developing systems within the group
(individual, subgroup, group-as-a-whole). Afterwards, leaders and
participants will compare and contrast models and discuss group
process.
didactic,
demonstration, experiential
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1.
Point to differences among the models
presented in regard to theory and/or techniques on any 3 aspects
(such as leader’s role and behavior, group member’s verbal and
nonverbal demeanor, importance of developmental model, goal of
therapy, etc.).
2. List 2 similarities among or
between the models presented.
3. Explain why repairing an empathic
rupture strengthens the self, in your own words, or using self
psychological terminology.
4. Describe how the process of
subgrouping creates therapeutic change by developing the systems
within the group (individuals, subgroups, and group-as-a-whole )
from simple to complex.
5.
Appreciate the multi-faceted significance for the development of
identity and relational competence of successful involvement in a
therapy group.
Course References:
1. Agazarian, Y. and Gantt, S.
(2000).
Autobiography of a Theory. London: Jessica Kingsley.
2. Agazarian, Y. (l997).
Systems-Centered Therapy for Groups. London: The Guilford Press.
3. Livingston, M. and Livingston, L.
(2006). Sustained Empathic Focus and the Clinical Application of
Self-Psychological Theory in Group Psychotherapy. International
Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 56, 67-85.
4. O'Leary,
J. and Wright, F. (2005). Social constructivism and the
group-as-a-whole. Group. 29(2), 257-276.
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