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69th Annual
Conference
Friday, March 9
8:30 – 9:45 A.M.
Anne and Ramon
Alonso Presidential Plenary Address
Supported by contributions to the
Group Psychotherapy Foundation
The Many
Layers of Hope in Group Psychotherapy
Featured
Speaker and Incoming AGPA President: Kathleen Hubbs Ulman, PhD, CGP,
FAGPA
Everyday market pressures, demands for evidence-based treatments
and theoretical differences can distract us from our core belief
in the basic healing qualities of all types of groups. One of
the fundamental therapeutic qualities of group is the
restoration of hope. Groups offer unique opportunities to
transform loss and trauma into realistic hope by providing a
safe tolerant environment and a leader who can bear hopelessness
and despair. However, sometimes group leaders experience their
own distress or, as we have seen with recent disasters, group
leaders experience trauma as well as the group members. How can
a stressed or traumatized leader hold onto hope for group
members? This talk will address the central role of groups in
transforming despair into hope for both members and leaders and
in sustaining group leaders in times of stress.
Dr. Kathleen Hubbs Ulman is Assistant Professor of
Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and the
Director of the Center for Group Psychotherapy, Massachusetts
General Hospital. She is the Chairperson of the NSGP Foundation and
a Past President of NSGP. Dr. Ulman has also been a member of
the Board of Directors of the American Group Psychotherapy
Association and Co-Chair of the Community Outreach Task Force. She
has led psychotherapy groups for over 30 years in both clinic and
private practice settings. She has served as a faculty member in the
Group Training Program of the Northeastern Society for Group
Psychotherapy where she has supervised, taught classes and led
training groups. Dr. Ulman is also a Co-Founder of the Boston
Threshold Group (Northern Ireland Group Psychotherapy Conference).
Dr. Ulman has presented nationally and internationally and published
articles on a variety of aspects of group therapy.
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