67th Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Friday, February 26

 

 

Friday, February 26

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

 

Session 206: Radical Responsibility: Ethical and Clinical Benefits of the Therapist's Professional Will

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

 

Session 207: The Psychiatrist as Group Therapist: Does It Make a Difference? (Psychiatry SIG Breakfast Meeting)

George Max Saiger, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 208: Group Development and Outcome for a Running Therapy Group

Bryan Duncan, Ph.D., Susan Duncan, Ph.D., Nicole Gilinsky, B.S.

 

Session 209: Treating High-Risk Adolescents:  The Trainees Experience

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

 

Session 210: The Earth as a Classroom: Using Groups to Help Children Participate in Rebuilding their Community after the Chinese Earthquake

Emily Zeng, Psy.D.

 

Session 211: Group Work with Gay Men who Use Crystal Meth: Filling the Void

Kurt Mohning, M.S.W., CGP, Lisa Rivitz, LCSW, CADC

 

 

Friday, February 26

Early Morning Colloquies

7:15 - 8:15 A.M.

 

Colloquy 5: Water, Water Everywhere: Using Awareness of Group Dynamics for Professional Replenishment

SaraKay Smullens, M.S.W., BCD, CFLE, CGP

 

Colloquy 6: Self and Identity in Conflict Resolution: Reflective Functioning and the IDR Cycle

Elizabeth Bader, J.D.

 

Colloquy 7: Psychotherapy Groups for the More Cognitively Intact Long-Term Care Resident

Kenneth Martin Schwartz, M.D., FRCPC

 

Colloquy 8: Serving Our Veterans: Creating and Running Innovative VA Groups

Wendy Vincent, M.A., M.S.; Anders Goranson, M.S., Laura Johnson, Psy.D., Meghan Rooney-Johnson, Psy.D.

 

Colloquy 9: A Trip around the Umbrella, the Apache (The Native American) and the Mermaid: The Use of the Mexican Lotto ("Loteria Mexicana") in the Group Therapy Process

Jose Cherbowsky, Ph.D.

 

 

Friday, February 26

Presidential Plenary Address

8:30 - 9:45 A.M.

 

Reaching Out, By Reaching In
Jeffrey L. Kleinberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Friday, February 26
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

         

Master Workshop 37a: States of Intersubjectivity: Member, Leader, Group

Richard Billow, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP

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

 

Workshop 38a: The Median Group

Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D., Dannielle Kennedy, Ph.D., Jeffrey Roth, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 39a: The Benefits of the Clinical Marriage: A Case for Co-Therapy

Chera Finnis, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA Eugene Kidder, M.Div., CGP, Barbara Kidder, M.A., Dan Raviv, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 40a: Group Psychotherapy Applications for Returning Veterans

Shirley Glynn, Ph.D., Barbara Niles, Ph.D., Melissa Wattenberg, Ph.D.

 

 

Friday, February 26
Morning Open Sessions
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

 

Session 307: Research SIG Open Session

Jennifer Johnson, Ph.D., Chair; Gerardine Curtain, Ph.D., Richard O'Neill, Ph.D.,  William E. Piper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Lorie A. Ritschel, Ph.D., Zipora Shechtman, Ph.D., Chiu Ying-Hsiang, MS, 

 

Session 308: Affect in Groups: A View through Different Lenses

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

 

Session 309: Dialogue and Mutual Respect: The Interplay of Religious and LGBTQ Issues in Group

Mark Beecher, Ph.D., Chair; Pat Alford-Keating, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, Chad Johnson, Ph.D., Gary Adams, Ph.D., Carlos Taloyo, Ph.D.

 

 

Friday, February 26
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

 

Workshop 41: “The Nice Group,” The Conscious and Unconscious Agreements to Avoid Conflict

Judith Schaer, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 42: Sexual Feelings? What Sexual Feelings? Therapist Erotic Countertransference in Group Therapy

Nancy Kelly, Ph.D., LCSW, CGP, Robert Murphy, M.A., LPC, LMFT

 

Workshop 43: The Over-Functioning Therapist: How Do You Know when “Enough” is Too Much?

Jeanne Bunker, LCSW, CGP, DeLinda Fox, LCSW, CGP

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

 

Workshop 44: Souldrama: Accessing our Spiritual Intelligence: Let Go of My Ego!

Connie Miller, TEP, NCC, LPC

 

Workshop 45: Knowing and Being Known: Considerations for the Use of Self

Robin Good, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 46: What I Did Not Know I Knew: Using Writing in Group to Recapture Lost Memories

Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 47: Training Students to Maximize Opportunities for Empathy in Groups

Alexis Abernethy, Ph.D., CGP, Sean Michael Love, M.A., Joseph Thomas Tadie, M.A., Bikat Tilahun, M.A.

 

Workshop 48: Mirroring in Groups: Providing a Sustaining and Nurturing Environment for Conflict Resolution

Sima Ariam, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 49: Microaggressions as Narcissistic Injury

Nina W. Brown, Ed.D., LPC, NCC, FAGPA

 

Workshop 50: Group Process in the NOW

Judye Hess, Ph.D., CGP

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

 

Master Workshop 51: Integrating CBT and Psychodrama: Theory and Practice in Group

Thomas Treadwell, Ed.D., TEP

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

 

Workshop 52: Hunger and Longing: A Mind-Body Approach to Intimacy

Mitchel Adler, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 53: Innovative Group Treatment Applications of Interpersonal Neurobiology to Sustain Couples in the New Decade

Darryl Feldman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, Gloria Batkin Kahn, Ed.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 54: A Group Model for Improving Self-Regulation in Kids K-12: Calming Minds and Behavior

Katherine Synatschk, Ph.D., Patricia Tollison, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 55: Coming Out Of Hiding: Giving Up Addiction

Randy Lehrer, LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 56: Exploring Reunions – Connections that Endure Beyond Pomp and Circumstance

Joan-Dianne Smith, M.S.W., RSW

 

 

Friday, February 26

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

 

The Large Group

Macario Giraldo, Ph.D., CGP

Ayana Watkins-Northern, Ph.D.

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

 

 

Friday, February 26

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

 

Session 310: The Therapeutic Impact of Therapist Self-Disclosure in Groups

Bonnie Buchele, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; Shoshana Ben-Noam, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA, Louisa Powell Livingston, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 311: The Social Unconscious: Theory and Practice

Dieter Nitzgen, M.A. Dip.Ed., Chair; Stephanie Fariss, JD, LCSW, Marina Mojonic, M.A., Carla Penna, M.A.

 

Session 312: The International Financial Crisis: Implications of Treatment and Organizational Life

Fern Cramer Azima, Ph.D, DLFAGPA, Chair; Harold Bernard, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, David Gutmann, Ph.D., Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Lisa Mahon, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 


Friday, February 26
Afternoon Workshops
2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 57: Beyond Theory: Can We Throw Out the Book?

Irene Harwood, Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, Marvin Kaphan, M.S.W., CGP

 

Workshop 58: The Intersection of Ethical and Clinical Issues: Group Leadership in 2010

Rebecca MacNair-Semands, Ph.D., CGP

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

 

Workshop 59: A Therapist Friendly Approach to Evidence Based Group Psychotherapy

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

 

Workshop 60: What You Don't Know Could Hurt You: Secrets in Group Psychotherapy

Oona Metz, LICSW, CGP

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

 

Workshop 61: How Old is your Therapist?

Beatrice Liebenberg, M.S.W., CGP, DFAGPA, Kathryn Liebenberg, Psy.D.

 

Workshop 62: Aggressive Enactments and Intolerable Pain in Group Therapy: Embracing Conflict to Create New and Transformative Solutions

David Dybdal, M.D., Ph.D., Myrna Frank, Ph.D.. CGP

 

Workshop 63: How to Design, Market, Organize, and Lead a Psychoeducational Group

Patricia Kyle Dennis, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 64: Dancing with the Unconscious

Nanine Ewing, Ph.D., ADTR, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 65: Mindfulness in a Changing World: Group Experiences in the Present Moment

Ruth Geller, M.D., M.Ed., Steven Hickman, Psy.D.

 

Workshop 66: Healing the Wounded Healer: Trauma, Resilience and Transformation!

Marcia Nickow, Psy.D., CADC, CGP, Deborah Schwartz, M.D.

 

Workshop 67: Using Psychodrama to Learn and Practice Family Systems Therapy

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

 

Workshop 68: Sustaining Couple Relationships through Couples Group Therapy: A Resource in our Stressfully Changing World

Barbara Feld, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA, Philip Luloff, M.D., CGP, FAPA

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

 

Workshop 69: Men with Out of Control Sexual Behavior:  Elements of a Sexual Health Model for Group Treatment

Doug Braun-Harvey, M.A., MFT, CGP, Michael Vigorito, M.A.

 

Workshop 70: Building Communities for Kids

Tony Sheppard, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 71: Therapeutic Self Disclosure (TSD), Boundaries, and Heterosexism: An Exploration of Issues facing LGBT Therapists Working Within the LGBT

Brian Brown, M.A., John Campbell, LCSW, CGP, Amber Siler-Knogl, M.A.

 

Workshop 72: Beyond Nagging and Begging: Overcoming Organizational Resistance to Internal Group Referrals in College Counseling and Other Agency Settings

Linda Muldoon, Ph.D., CGP, Susan Walker, Ph.D.

 

 

Friday, February 26

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Dance Party

9:00 P.M.

 

 

Thursday Sessions and Workshops

 

Saturday Sessions and Workshops