69th Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Saturday, March 10

 

 

Saturday, March 10

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:45 – 8:45 A.M.

 

Session 217: Stirring the Pot: Some Clinical and Ethical Implications of Boundary Crossings in Group Psychotherapy (Ethics CE credits)

Robert Pepper, LCSW, PhD, CGP

 

Session 218: The Thematic and Free Drawings in Group Psychotherapy

Revaz Korinteli, MD, FAGPA

 

Session 219: Intuitive Eating: Using Group Therapy to Make Peace with Food

Rachel Eddins, MEd, LPC, CGP

Jana Rosenbaum, LCSW, CGP

 

Session 220: Thou Shalt Not: How Religion and Religious Trauma Affect Therapists and Clients

Alyson Stone, PhD, CGP

 

Session 221: Girl Talk: A Group Especially for Adolescent Girls

Rachel Collins, MS, NCC

 

Saturday, March 10

Early Morning Colloquies

7:45 - 8:45 A.M.

 

Colloquy 7:  Use of Humor and Selected Systems-Centered Therapy Concepts in Geriatric Group Therapy

Roberta Jellinek, PhD

 

Colloquy 8: Clinicians versus Researchers: Can We All Just Get Along?

Francis Kaklauskas, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA

 

Colloquy 9: Small-Town Group Therapy and the AGPA Annual Conference: Talk about Group as Common Ground!

Michael Harris, MA, LPC, LAC, CGP 

 

 

All-Day Courses

Saturday, March 10
9:00 A.M.– 11:30 A.M. & 1:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

C6. Addictions as an Attachment Disorder

Director:

Philip Flores, PhD, ABPP, CGP, LFAGPA

 

C7. Principles of Group Psychotherapy (Part 2)

Director:

Diane Montgomery-Logan, MA, CGP

 

Faculty:

Eleanor Counselman, EdD, CGP, LFAGPA

Travis Courville, LSCW, CGP, FAGPA

Joshua Gross, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Karen Travis, MSW, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Saturday, March 10
All-Day Workshops

9:00 – 11:30 A.M. & 1:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 79a:  Becoming Who We Are In Groups: A Jungian Approach to Depth Psychotherapy in Groups Justin Hecht, PhD, CGP

 

Master Workshop 80a: The Growing Edge of Knowing: Affect, Attunement, and Mutuality in Group Psychotherapy

Richard Billow, PhD, ABPP, CGP

Victor Schermer, MA, LPC, FAGPA

 

Workshop 81a: Embodying the Therapeutic Stance: Lessons Learned from Somatic Experience

Roger Saint-Laurent, PsyD, SEP, CGP

Peter Taylor, PhD, SEP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 82a: Running a Diverse Men's Group: Knowledge, Awareness, Skills

Michael Andronico, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Peter Donnelly, PhD 

 

 

Saturday, March 10
Morning Open Sessions
9:00 – 11:30 A.M.

 

Session 310: Louis R. Ormont Lecture--The Leaders Use of Self:  A Modern Analytic Approach to Working in the Intra-Psychic and Interpersonal Realm

Elliot Zeisel, PhD, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 311:  Current Research in Group Psychotherapy

Zipora Shechtman, PhD, FAGPA, Chair

Sapna Bansil, OTS

Mary Barnes, BS, OTR/L

Maly Danino, MSc

Paige Freeseman, MS

Leslie Inenaga, OTS

Marilyn Lanza, DNScCS, ARNP, FAAN

Steinar Lorentzen, MD, PhD

Mindy Pearson, MS

Sharan Schwartzberg, EdD

Bernhard Strauss, PhD

Megan Wall, OTS

Rainer Weber, DiplPsych

Sean Woodland

 

Session 312:  Evidence-Based Practice in Groups with Children and Adolescents

Tony Sheppard, PsyD, CGP, Chair

Andrew Cleek, PsyD

Craig Haen, MA, RDT, CGP

Karin Hodges, PsyD

Andrew Pojman, EdD, CGP

 

 

Saturday, March 10
Morning Workshops
9
:00
A.M.– 11:30 A.M.

 

Workshop 83: Working through Early Life Experiences: A Dynamic Approach to Modifying Interpersonal Adult Peer Relationships

Alexander Broden, MD, DLFAPA, CGP

Michelle Maidenberg, PhD, MPH, LCSW-R, CGP

 

Workshop 84:  Oppression, Freedom and Recognition in the Group: Group-Leader Interaction

Ido Peleg, MD

 

Workshop 85:  Rules are Made to be Broken: But Who, What, Where, When and How?

Lorraine Wodiska, PhD, ABPP, CGP

 

Workshop 86:  Effective and Efficient Supervision: Doing It in Group

Arthur Gray, PhD

 

Workshop 87:  Indicators of Potential Toxicity in Training Groups: A Case Study

Nina Brown, EdD, LPC, NCC, FAGPA

 

Workshop 88:  Focused Brief Group Therapy: An Integrated, Assessment-Informed Model for Brief Group Work

Nicholas Gehle, PsyD

Angela Harris, PsyM

Jennifer Lotz, PsyM

Martyn Whittingham, PhD

 

Workshop 89: The Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets: Psychodrama and Somatization

Jacob Gershoni, LCSW, CGP, TEP

 

Workshop 90: Cancelled

 

Workshop 91:  Move and Be Moved by the Psyche

Nanine Ewing, PhD, LMFT, BCDMT, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 92:  New Trauma Treatments for Groups

Henry Grayson, PhD, LFAGPA

 

Workshop 93: Affairs Resolved through Couples and Group Therapy: Establishing Safe Common Ground

Barbara Feld, MSW, BCD, CGP, FAGPA

Philip Luloff, MD, CGP

 

Workshop 94:  Developing Group Interventions in College Counseling Centers: Dialogues on Diversity

Anne Slocum McEneaney, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Michele Ribeiro, EdD

Christopher St. Germain, PhD

Stephanie Shippen, MS

M. D'Andre Wilson, PhD

 

Workshop 95: The Impact of Different Leadership Styles on Organizations (AGPA Leadership Track)

Darryl Pure, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Saturday, March 10

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Luncheon and Performance
11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Gospel for Teens

 

 

Saturday, March 10
Afternoon Open Session
1:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

Session 313: The Large Group

Thor-Kristian Island, MD

Siri Johns, OT

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:15-8:15 am) and Friday (12:45-1:45 pm)

 

 

Saturday, March 10
Afternoon Workshops
1:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 96: The Sounds of Silence: A Modern Analytic Approach to Resistances in Group

Michael Hegener, MA, LPC, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 97: All's Well that Ends Well

Jeffrey Mendell, MD, MPH, CGP

Marsha Vannicelli, PhD, CGP, LFAGPA

 

Master Workshop 98: Enhancing the Skills of the Group Supervisor

Stanley Teitelbaum, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 99: Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment in Adult Life

Una McCluskey, PhD

 

Workshop 100: Your Therapist's Professional Will - If Not Now, When? (Ethics CE Credits)

Ann Steiner, PhD, MFT, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 101:  Scapegoating in Group Therapy: Integrating Girard's Mimetic Theory and Agazarian's Systems-Centered Approach

Alexis Abernethy, PhD, CGP

Lisa Finlay, MA

Scott Garrels, PhD

 

Workshop 102:  Fascinating Rhythms: Exploring Alternative Paths of Communication. Finding Our Way to Group Cohesion through Art, Movement and Meditation

Lena Friedman, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, CGP

Neil Friedman, MsEd

 

Workshop 103:  Hunger and Longing: A Mind/Body Approach to Intimacy

Mitchel Adler, PsyD, CGP

 

Workshop 104:  SoulDrama® Group: Let Go of My Ego

Connie Miller, TEP, NCC, LPC, MS

 

Workshop 105: East Meets West: Meditation, Group Process and Healing Preoedipal Wounds

Joseph Tarantolo, MD, CGP

 

Workshop 106:  Expressing the Unexpressed: Helping Couples Attain Emotional Fluency

Lee Kassan, MA, CGP

Lynn Pearl, PhD, CGP

 

Workshop 107:  Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll: Finding Common Ground in Working with Issues of Aging Through the Use of Words and Movement

Andreah Barker, MA

Kenneth Martin Schwartz, MD, FRCPC

William Shapiro, PsyD, CGP

 

Workshop 108: Couples in Conflict: Using Play Reading to Explore Group Dynamics in Two Families Contending with an Act of Violence by their Children

John Dluhy, MD, CGP, FAGPA

Rob Williams, MSW, CGP

 

 Thursday, March 8:

Friday, March 9: