66th Annual Conference
Friday, February 20
Afternoon
Workshops
2:30 – 5:00
P.M.
Workshop
40
How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evidence Based Group
Therapy: Reprised with an Ongoing Web Based Consultation Group
Presented
in cooperation with the National Registry of Group Psychotherapists
and the
AGPA Science to Services Task Force
Chairs:
Joseph C.
Kobos, Ph.D.,ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Director/Professor, University of Texas Health
Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
Molyn
Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC, CGP, Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
This workshop
with an ongoing web based consultation group is designed to provide
participants training on the implementation of group therapy
utilizing an evidence-based, best practices approach based on AGPA's
Practice Guidelines for Group Psychotherapy (www.agpa.org).
Participants will introduce their work setting, practice style and
recent clinical challenges and therapeutic dilemmas. Each
participant will formulate individual learning objectives for the
workshop and ongoing web-based consultation. Participants are
required to commit both to the workshop and participation in the
ongoing web based consultation over a three-month period.
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Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will be able to:
1. Describe the
basic elements of an evidence-based approach to implementing
contemporary group therapy.
2. Recognize
personal, systemic, group process and group development issues which
affect the implementation of group therapy.
3. Apply the best
practice model to address therapeutic challenges and impasses.
4. Evaluate
ongoing consultation for one’s professional work in a combined
workshop and web-based format.
Course References:
1. Galinsky, M.,
Schopler, J., and Abell, M (1997). Connecting Group Members through
Telephone and Computer Groups. Health & Social Work, 22 (3):
181-188.
2. Practice
guidelines for Group Psychotherapy www.agpa.org.
3.
Leszcz, M., Yalom, D. (2005). The Theory and
Practice of
Group Psychotherapy. 5th Edition. Basic Books, New York. |
