64th Annual Conference

Saturday, March 10

Afternoon Workshops

2:15-5:30 P.M.

Workshop 87        

Faring Well Through Farewell

Chairs:

Jeffrey Mendell, M.D., CGP, Medical Director, Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, Allegany County Healthy Department, Cumberland, Maryland

Marsha Vannicelli, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

This experiential workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to experience the impact and explore the meaning of endings in their own lives , as well as in the groups that they lead, as they come up against the particular end boundary of the final segment of the five-day conference.

experiential, sharing of work experiences, demonstration, didactic

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Describe salient aspects of termination, grieving and loss as it relates to their own personal experience.
2. Enumerate the complicated feelings associated with endings.
3. Describe the work that gets done as people are faced with the task of saying goodbye.
4. Prepare their patients more effectively for the work of termination.

Course References:

1. Schermer, V. and Klein, R. (1996). Termination in Group Psychotherapy from the Perspectives of Contemporary Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 46(1), 99-115.

2. Fieldsteel, N. (2005). When the Therapist Says Goodbye. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 55(2), 24.

3. Vannicelli, M. (2005) .Commentary: On Therapist Initiated Termination. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 55(2), 311.