61st Annual Conference

Friday, February 27
Morning Open Sessions
10:30 A.M. -1:30 P.M. 

Session 307

Live Supervision of a Group at Impasse

 

Chair:              

Anne Alonso, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts                     

 

Panelists:           

Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice, Wellesley, Massachusetts

David Hawkins, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Private Practice, Chapel Hill, North

Carolina

Beatrice Liebenberg, M.S.W., DFAGPA, Private Practice, Chevy Chase, Maryland

The presentation will explore the variety of problems associated with groups at impasse. Following a scripted demonstration group, the therapist's experience will be presented to two different supervisors. Participants will have the opportunity to observe differences in supervisory style in addressing dynamics associated with what generates the impasse, how the clinician experiences the impasse, and the supervisor's role in resolving the impasse.

 Course References:

1. Alonso, A.(1985). The Quiet Profession: Supervisors of Psychotherapy. New York: Macmillan.

2. Rutan, J. & Stone, W. (2001). Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy. New York: The Guilford

    Press.

3. Lewis, H. (Ed.). (1987). The role of shame in symptom formation. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum

    Associates.