 66th Annual Conference
Thursday,
February 19
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Master Workshop
17
Strong
Foundations/Strong Relationships Built Through Couples Group Therapy
Chairs:
Barbara
Feld, M.S.W., CGP, Assistant Professor of Community
Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Philip B.
Luloff, M.D., CGP, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Mount
Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Open to
participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy
experience
This workshop
will demonstrate how Couples Group therapy can build, reinforce,
repair and strengthen the foundation of the interaction between
couples leading to a lasting loving and more fulfilling
relationship. Through use of a demonstration couples
group,
fish bowl technique, issues related to communication, intimacy,
sharing, and empathy will be addressed.
experiential-demonstration-sharing of work
experiences-didactic
Learning Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Identify those couples that need
conjoint couple therapy and those which will be better served by
couple’s group therapy.
2. Describe the major issues related to
communication difficulties in couple.
3. Evaluate and prepare couples for
couples group.
4. Experience empathic collaborative relating in
groups.
5. Identify different aspects of the
co-leader relationship.
Course References:
1.
Alger, I. (1976). Multiple couple therapy. In
P. Guerin (Ed.),
Family therapy, theory and practice (pp. 364–387). New York: Gardner Press. ltd
2.
Feld, B. (2003). Phases of Couples Group Therapy: A Consideration of
Therapeutic Action”, Group,23(1), 5-19.
3.
Feld,B. (June,2004). “Using Systems Thinking to Understand
Attachment in Couple and Couple Group Therapy”, Group, 28 (2).
4.
Feld, B. (1998). Initiating a Couples Group. GROUP,22, (4), 245-259.
5.
Kaslow, F., & Lieberman, E.J. (1981). Couples group therapy:
Rationale, dynamics and process. In
G. P. Sholevar (Ed.), The
handbook of marriage and marital therapy (pp. 374–362). New York:
Spectrum. |
