66th Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Friday, February 20

 

Friday, February 20

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:15 – 8:15 A.M.

 

Session 208: Planning for the Unexpected: When the Group Therapist has to Cancel (Law & Ethics CEUs)

Ann Steiner, Ph.D., MFT, CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 209: Intolerable Pain and Aggressive Enactments in Group Treatment

Myrna Frank, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 210: Laying a Solid Foundation --the Financial Nitty Gritty

Peter Cole, M.S.W., Daisy Reese, LCSW

 

Session 211: Facilitating Transition from a Supervisee to a Supervisor (Psychiatry SIG Breakfast Meeting)

Nelly Katsnelson, M.D., CGP, Chair; Yener Balan, M.D., Sandhya Dubey, M.D., Michael Kornberg, M.D., Adi Loebl, M.D., Rachel Mandel, M.D., Adriana Shuster, M.D., Lauren Snow-Royce, M.D., David Stern, M.D.

 

Session 212: Transition Issues in Returning Military Personnel

Janet Lial, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP

 

Session 213: Existential Aspects of the Group Program for Adults with Traumatic Experiences

Witold Simon M.D., Ph.D.

 

Session 214: Treatment of High-Risk Adolescents in Closed Setting Probation Schools

Walter Stone, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; Judith Gable, M.S.W., LCSW, Beth Walton MFT

 

Friday, February 20

Early Morning Colloquies

7:15-8:15 A.M.

 

Colloquy 5: The Functional Group Model: How, When & Why?

Mary Alicia Barnes, B.S., OTR/L

 

Colloquy 6: Innovations in Applying Group-as-a-Whole Work to the Treatment of Severely Mentally-Ill Clients:  Building Self-Efficacy and Cohesiveness and Using Creativity Effectively

Emma Church, M.A., Clive Hazell, Ph.D., Diana Semmelhack, Psy.D., CGP

 

Colloquy 7: Dealing with Difficult People

Peggy Cook, B.A.(Hons)

 

Friday, February 20

First Annual Anne and Ramon Alonso

Plenary Address

8:30 - 9:45 A.M.

 

Strong Group Foundations: Building Healing Communities

J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

 

 

Friday, February 20
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

         

Workshop 33a: Promoting Affect Development within an Integrated Model of Group Psychotherapy

Paul Kaye, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 34a: Is Your Trauma Showing?:  The Re-Creation of Unconscious Traumatic Experience Between Co-Leaders

Lorraine Wodiska, Ph.D., CGP, Barbara Wood, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 35a: Neurobiology and Marriage: A Group Program

Donald Ferguson, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 36a: LivingDance~LivingMusic: Generating Integrated Relationships to Self and Others

Danielle Fraenkel, Ph.D., ADTR, NCC, LCAT, LMHC, CGP, Jeffrey Mehr, M.A.

 

 

Friday, February 20
Morning Open Sessions
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

 

Session 307: Levels of Intervention in Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy

Philip Flores, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Stewart Aledort, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Sara Emerson, M.S.W., LICSW, CGP, FAGPA, Elliot Zeisel, Ph.D.. CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 308: You Say Tomaytoes and I Say Tomahtoes! -- A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue

John Schlapobersky, M.S.W., Chair; Phyllis Cohen Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA; Howard Kibel M.D.,CGP, DLFAGPA; Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC, CGP

 

Session 309: Group Development and Interventions in College Counseling Centers

Joshua Gross Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Dallas Jensen, Ph.D., Anthony Joyce, Ph.D., Anne McEneaney, PhD, CGP

 

Friday, February 20
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

 

Workshop 37: Strong Group Foundations: Teaching Group Therapy Using Structured Exercises

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP, Joan Koenig, M.A., FNP, CGP, Kenneth Pollock, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 38: What Just Happened? Dealing with the Unexpected in Group Therapy

Eleanor Counselman, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA, J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience.

 

Workshop 39: Ethical and Legal Issues in Group Psychotherapy

Rebecca MacNair-Semands, Ph.D., CGP

 

**Due to a scheduling conflict Workshop #40  has been moved to Friday afternoon (2:30-5:00 pm)**

Workshop 40: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evidence Based Group Therapy: Reprised with an Ongoing Web Based Consultation Group

Joseph Kobos, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC, CGP

 

Workshop 41: Three Faces of Community: From Selfobject through Intersubjectivity to Mutual Recognition

Mary Dluhy, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA, MaryAnn Dubner, Ph.D., CGP, Rosemary Segalla, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 42: The Group as a Hall of Mirrors: A Powerful Force in Illuminating the Awareness of the Defenses

Sima Ariam, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 43: Confrontation and Empathy

Fern Cramer Azima, Ph.D., CGP, DLFAGPA

 

Workshop 44: The Use of Psychotherapy with Bowen’s Family Systems Therapy

Christopher John Farmer, M.D., Marcia Geller, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 45: Strong Foundations:  The Marriage of Group and EMDR

Katie Steele, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 46: Psychoeducational Group Therapy for Women who are Overeating and Gaining Weight

Patricia Kyle Dennis, Ph.D., CGP

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience.

 

Workshop 47: Writing and the Group: Sparking Creativity and Professional Growth

Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 48: Building Communities for Kids: Facilitating Process in Children's Therapy Groups

Tony Sheppard, Psy.D., CGP

 

Master Workshop 49: Using Group Processes in Retirement Transition Workshops

Robert Conyne, Ph.D., Lynn Rapin, Ph.D.

Open to participants with ten or more years of group psychotherapy experience.

 

Workshop 50: Group Therapist as Corporate Trainer

Rick Tivers, LCSW, BCD, CGP

 

Workshop 51: Facilitating Groups Using the Multicultural Resources Model

Gwenelle O’Neal, M.S.W., D.S.W.

 

Friday, February 20

Lunch-Time Large Group Session
12:45 – 1:45 P.M.

 

The Large Group

Felix de Mendelssohn, M.S.W.

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:15-8:15 am) and Saturday (1:30-4:00 pm)

 

Friday, February 20

Afternoon Open Sessions
2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

 

Session 310: Current Research in Group Psychotherapy

Jennifer Johnson, Ph.D., Chair; Jennifer Alonso, Gary Burlingame, Ph.D., CGP, Chris Chapman, Robert Gleave, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, John Ogrodniczuk, Ph.D., William Piper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Zipora Shechtman, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Session 311: Three Views of a Demonstration Group: Systems-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, and Interpersonal Neurobiology

Allan Elfant, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Susan Gantt, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Gaea Logan, M.A., Thomas Treadwell, Ed.D., TEP

 

Session 312: What About the Kids? A Children's Social Skills Group Program

Aynn Hartman, Ph.D., Chair; Carla D'Aiello, Psy.D., Dara Querimit, Ph.D., Michael Zarabi, Psy.D.


Friday, February 20
Afternoon Workshops
2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

 

**Due to a scheduling conflict Workshop #40 previously scheduled for Friday morning has been moved to Friday afternoon (2:30-5:00 pm)**

Workshop 40: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evidence Based Group Therapy: Reprised with an Ongoing Web Based Consultation Group

Joseph Kobos, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC, CGP

 

Workshop 52: The Group Odyssey: A Voyage into the Unknown

Lawrence Malcus, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 53: Together Through Song: The Power of Communal Singing to Create Connection and Elevate Mood

Geraldine Alpert, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Deborah Cross, M.D., CGP

 

Workshop 54: The Group Therapist’s New Clothes: Unexpected Exposure During Therapeutic Moments in the Life of the Group Leader

Mary Jago Krueger M.S.Ed., CGP

 

Workshop 55: Positive Psychodrama Revisited: Connection, Hope and Healing

Merle Cantor Goldberg, LCSW-C, FASGPP, CEDP

 

Workshop 56: How to Teach the “Principles of Group Psychotherapy” Course

Judith Cochè, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Master Workshop 57: In the Beginning: Working with Non-Verbal & Symbolic Communication in Group

Phyllis Cohen Ph.D., CGP, LFAGPA

Open to participants with ten or more years of group psychotherapy experience.

 

Workshop 58: Building Strong Foundations for Secure Attachment

Sarah Brandel, Ph.D., CGP, Trish Cleary, M.S., LCPC-MFT-ADC, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 59: Expressions of the Holding Capacity of the Group and Community in Bruce Springsteen's Music

Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 60: A Basic Course on Adolescent Group Therapy: Theory, Method, and Survival

Andrew Pojman Ed.D., CGP

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience.

 

Workshop 61: Sex and Death: Countertransference Considerations Regarding Aging and Older Adults

Marc Schramm, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 62: Group Work with LGBT Clients- A Psychodramatic Perspective

Jacob Gershoni, LCSW, TEP, CGP

 

Workshop 63: Creating Thriving Private Practice Psychotherapy Groups

Leon Hoffman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, LFAGPA

 

Workshop 64: Your Professional Will: Preparing for Unexpected and Inevitable Absences (Law & Ethics  CEUs)

Ann Steiner, Ph.D., MFT, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 65: Finding Common Ground: Organizational Development and Group Process Models

Diana Marit Kunkel, Ph.D., Landis Vance, Ph.D.

 

Friday, February 20

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Dance Party

9:00 P.M.

 

Chicago Catz

 

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