66th Annual Conference
Friday, February
20
Afternoon
Workshops
2:30
- 5:00 P.M.
Workshop
54
The
Group Therapist’s New Clothes: Unexpected Exposure During
Therapeutic Moments in the Life of the Group Leader
Presented
under the auspices of the AGPA Women's SIG
Chair:
Mary Jago
Krueger M.S.Ed., CGP, Senior Clinical Psychotherapist, Youth and
Family Counseling, Cary, Illinois
This workshop
will explore the adventure of those spontaneous, unexpected moments
in group that can lead to therapeutic change. We will examine ideas
for managing and understanding the transparency of the leader
through boundaries, self-disclosure and counter-transference using
clinical examples, the sharing of experiences and exploration of
process.
demonstration-experiential-sharing of work experiences-didactic
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will be able to:
1. Understand how
spontaneous therapist transparency impacts the work of the group.
2. Identify
alternative interventions or responses to unexpected material.
3. Explore various
situations that may illicit counter-transference reactions and ways
to manage responses.
4. Increase
therapeutic comfort level with being more transparent through taking
more positive risks and decreasing shame.
Course References:
1.Fehr, S. (2008)
101 Interventions in Group Therapy. New York: The Hawthorn Press.
2. Josselson, R.
(2007) Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another. New York:
Jason Aronson.
3. Maroda, K.
(1991). The Power of Countertransference. England:
John Wiley
and Sons, Ltd.
4. Motherwell L.,
Shay J. (Eds.) (2005). Complex Dilemmas in Group Therapy: Pathways
to resolution. New York: Brunner/Routledge. |
