Chair:  

Elinor Dunn Grayer, M.S.W., Ph.D., BCD, CGP, Clinical Social Work, California Institute for Clinical Social Work, Encino, California

Presenter:           

Janet Sullivan, M.A., NCPsy.A., CMT, Senior Music Therapist, Gracie

Square Hospital, New York, New York

A presentation of  a summer 2002 experience with a team of American and Italian therapists leading a group in Tuzla Bosnia with both adults and children utilizing the model of short-term dynamic groups and both expressive and verbal techniques.

Course References:

1. Herman, J. (1997). Trauma and Recovery: The aftermath of violence- from doemstic abuse to

    politcal teror. New York: Basic Books (sections on torture and politcal violence and the use of

    group to heal).

2. Sudetic, C. (1999). Blood and Vegeance: One Family’s True Story of the War in Bosnia.

3. Sullivan, J. (2003). The Therapeutic Community Sing: Music therapy in patient group process,

    Group, 27(1), 31-39.