61st Annual Conference Sessions and Workshops

Friday, February 27

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:30 – 8:30 A.M.

Session 208: Master’s Circle: The Immersion of Self in Group

Richard Beck, RCSW, BCD, CGP; Isaac Youcha, M.S.W.

 

Session 209: Fearful Images of the Group Leader

Barry Helfmann, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA; Maria

Elena Lisac, Ph.D.,CGP

 

Session 210: The Shy Single- A Short-Term Focused Group

Bonnie Jacobson, Ph.D., CGP

Session 211: Uncovering the Roots of Emotional Abuse in Group Therapy's Dynamic Process

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

 

Session P 212: The Broken Organization: After Trauma

Kenneth Eisold, Ph.D.

 

Session P 213: Clinician Support in the Wake of Disaster: Creating Connection, Community, and Continuity

Madelyn Miller, CSW, CGP

Friday, February 27
Presidential Plenary Address
8:45 – 10:15 A.M.

At the Core: How We Steer Our Course

Robert Klein, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Friday, February 27
All-Day Workshops
10:30 A.M.– 1:30 P.M. & 3:00 – 6:00 P.M.

Workshop 41a: Goalsetting, Lifegetting:  A Systems-Centered(tm) Approach

 

Workshop 42a: RoundTable Theatre: Creating Hope and Respect through Group Improvisation

 

Master Workshop 43a: The Pair and the Person:  A Group Analytic Approach to Therapy for Intimacy and its Problems

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

Session 307: Live Supervision of a Group at Impasse

Anne Alonso, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA;Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA; David Hawkins, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Beatrice Liebenberg, M.S.W., DFAGPA

 

Session 308: The Role(s), Person and Ethical Considerations of the Leader/Conductor in the Larger Group

Haim Weinberg, M.A.; Mark Ettin, Ph.D.,

CGP; Carol Vandiver Lark, Ph.D.; Robert

Lipgar, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Stanley Schneider,

Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 309: Sport Psychiatry: What Great Athletic Coaches Can Teach Us About Leading Better Groups

Ronald Kamm, M.D.;  Kevin Callahan; Paul Grafer; Dean Meminger; Nancy Williams

Friday, February 27
Morning Workshops
10:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Workshop 44: The Group Leader's Tasks

Judith Simon, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop 45: Is there a Healer in the House?

Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 46: Through the Space Between Us: Recognizing Healthy Relational Needs in Group Psychotherapy

Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D.

 

Master Workshop 47: Social Dreaming Matrix Workshop (Part 2)

Mary Dluhy, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA.

Seymour Rubenfeld, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 48: The Next Chapter: Making Successful Transitions

Alan Bernstein, M.S.W.

 

Workshop 49: Wild Civility - Working with Erotic Feelings in Group Therapy and Supervision

Melissa Black, Ph.D., CGP; Dale Godby, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 50: Working Relationally in Group:  Articulating the Prearticulate

Richard Billow, Ph.D.

 

Master Workshop 51: Synthesis: Body and Mind

Nanine Ewing, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 52: Group Therapy for Psychotic Patients

Nick Kanas, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 53: Group Therapy of Substance Abuse

David Brook, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

Philip Flores, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 54: Healing Power of Women's Groups: Do Women Love Too Much?

Anne Oakley, Ph.D.; Judith Schoenholtz-

Read, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 55: Turning Teenage Troublemakers into Cooperative Group Members

Elizabeth Olson, M.S.W.

 

Workshop 56: Managing Cancer and Life:  Reflections on Thirty Years of Group Therapy with Cancer Patients

Samuel Klagsbrun, M.D., CGP

 

Workshop 57: Moving into Organizational and Coaching Practice

Isaiah Zimmerman, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop P 58: How to Use Training to Support Service Delivery Workers Involved in Trauma Work

Felicia Einhorn, M.S.W., CGP

Henry Spitz, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop P 59: Hope and Despair in Traumatized Organizations

 Susan Gantt, Ph.D., CGP; Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Howard Kibel, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Jeffrey Kleinberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Christer Sandahl, Ph.D.; Gerda Winther, M.A.

 

Workshop P 60: Innovative Group Interventions for Specific Needs-The Response of NYFD to the Devastation of 9/11

Claire Cammarata, CSW; Paul Greene,Ph.D.; Dianne Kane, D.S.W.; Margaret Patterson, Ph.D.; Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., CGP

Friday, February 27

Lunch-Time Large Group Session
1:45 – 2:45 P.M.

 

The Large Group

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:30-8:30 am) and Saturday (2:30-5:30 pm)
Earl Hopper, Ph.D.,CGP, FAGPA; Meg Sharpe, BA (Hons), M.Inst GA, CGP 

 

Friday, February 27

Poster Sessions
1:45 – 2:45 P.M.

Poster Session 5: Coping Skills for Families with Chronic Illness

Glenda Insabella, Ph.D.; Evie Lindemann,

M.A., MFT

 

Poster Session 6: Leading Multi-Family Groups of Families with a Small Child

James Murphy, M.D., M.Div., CGP

 

Poster Session 7: Creating an Elder Community of Volunteers: The Development of a Senior Peer Counseling Program

Helen Balis, LCSW

 

Poster Session 8: Course Design and Participant Evaluation of a Psychoeducation Group on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression

Ann Koranda, M.S., CNS, LADC, CGP

 

Poster Session 9: Projective Identification and Scapegoating in Group Psychotherapy

Joseph Kelly Moreno, Ph.D.

Friday, February 27
Afternoon Open Sessions
3:00 – 6:00 P.M.

Session 310: Evoking and Integrating Strong Affect:  Two Approaches, Two  Improvisation Demonstration Groups

Geraldine Alpert, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Dannielle Kennedy, Ph.D.; Elliot Zeisel, Ph.D., M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 311: Current Research in Group Psychotherapy

Shawn Taylor, Ph.D;.Bernhard Strauss, Ph.D.

 

Session P 312: Protocol for Responding to Organizations Following a Catastrophe

Priscilla Kauff, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Jeffrey

Kleinberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Isaiah Zimmerman,

Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Friday, February 27
Afternoon Workshops
3:00 – 6:00 P.M.

Workshop 61: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy: An Effective Model When You Only Have One Session

Neal Spivack, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 62: The Use of Stage Theory from a Developmental Perspective

Paul Kaye, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 63: Authorizing Women: Analysis of the “Bitch” Transference

Christine Kieffer, Ph.D., ABPP, FAGPA

Jeffrey Roth, M.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop 64: Resistance?  What Resistance?  Working with Resistance and Countertrans-ference in Involuntary Groups

Steven Henne, M.A., LPC, CAC III

Jeffrey Price, M.A., CAC II

 

Workshop 65: The Unwitting Exposure of the Group Therapist

Kathleen Hubbs Ulman, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Master Workshop 66: Competition:  The Underbelly of Group Psychotherapy

Gil Spielberg, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Robert Unger, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Master Workshop 67: Zeitgeist: Time, Timing and Anniversary Reactions in the Practice of Group Psychotherapy

Phyllis Cohen, Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP

Werner Knauss, DIPL.PSYCH.

 

Workshop 68: Taming the Heart: Affect Regulation in Meditation and Group Psychotherapy

Jeannine Jacques, M.S.W., DCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 69: Managing Dual Relationships While Practicing Ethical and Flexible Group Psychotherapy

Barbara Squire Ilfeld, M.S.N., RNCS, CGP

 

Workshop 70: Six Cameras in Search of a Group: The Use of the Movie “Group” as a Resource in the Training of Group Therapists

Robert Berley, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 71: Countertransference in Psychodrama

David Kipper, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 72: Psychomotor: A Mind/Body Integrative Model for Group Therapy

Sandy Canfield, NCC, CCMHC, LMHC

Deborah Willbur, LCSW, BCD, CGP

 

Workshop 73: Tracking Talk:  Communication Patterns in the Phases of  Group Development

Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 74: Dog-Assisted Group Psychotherapy for Adolescents

Paul Kymissis, M.D., FAGPA

Avril Lindsay, CSW

 

Master Workshop 75: Treatment of Substance-Abusing Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Individuals

Judith Gringorten, RCSW, CGP

 

Workshop P 76: Helping Children and Families Cope with Traumatic Loss

Maureen Underwood, A.CSW, CGP

Nicci Spinazzola, ED.S., LMFT, LPC, CGP

 

Workshop P 77: A Fresh Approach to Understanding Post Traumatic Stress and Its Innovative Application in Group Work with Veterans

Robert LeLieuvre, Ph.D.; Reverend William Mark, M.Div.; Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., CGP; Carolee Verdeur Rada, Psy.D.;Donald Wexler, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop P 78: Disaster Relief CGPs:  Processing Our Experiences

Trish Cleary, M.S., LCPC-MFT, CGP

 

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Dance Party

Friday, February 26
9:00 P.M.

Kameleon

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