61st Annual Conference Sessions and Workshops

Saturday, February 28

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

Session 214:  Strategies for Working with Children and Parents of High-Conflict Divorce

Judith Coche, Ph.D., FAGPA; Pam Ankowitz,

M.S.W.,Marilyn Kotcher, LCSW, Andrew

Robins, Ph.D.; Lindsay Schenkel, M.A.; Andrea

Siegel, Ph.D.

Session 215: Isolated and Confined Environments: Applications to Group Therapy

Nick Kanas, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 216: Group Therapy for Caregivers with Chronically Ill Family Members

Hindy Nobler, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Diane Marie Fischer, M.A.

 

Session 217: Collaborative Game Playing: Creating a Comprehensive Group Psychotherapy Program within a Managed Care Environment

Howard Markus, Ph.D., CGP; Elizabeth

Driscoll, CSW; Andrea Fedoruk, M.S.W., CGP;

James Meyer, Ph.D., CGP; Joseph Russo,

Psy.D., CGP; Lynne Smith Wheeler, M.S.Ed.,

CAS

 

Session 218: Mourning and Melancholia and the Group Treatment of a Borderline Patient

Connie Concannon, M.S.W., FAGPA

Geoffrey Shaskan, M.S.W., CGP

 

Session P 219: Helping the Helpers: Summary, Feedback and Future Directions

Michael Andronico, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Felicia

Einhorn, M.S.W., CGP; Madelyn Miller, CSW,

CGP; Emanuel Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA;

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

Saturday, February 28
All-Day Workshops
9:00 A.M.– 12:00 Noon & 2:30 – 5:30 P.M.

Workshop 79a: Psychodrama of a Marriage Revisited

Rene Marineau, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 80a: Sustaining an Empathic Focus on Inner Experience: How a Self-Psychological Approach Can Access Hope and the Healing Process

Louisa Livingston, Ph.D., CGP

Martin Livingston, Ph.D., CGP

 

Master Workshop 81a:Body-Oriented Group Psychotherapy

Scott Baum, Ph.D., FaclinP

Elaine Tuccillo, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop P 82a: Group Treatment of Survivors, Witnesses and Family Members

Richard Beck, RCSW, BCD, CGP

Bonnie Buchele, Ph.D., ABPP, GP, DFAGPA

Estelle Rauch, LCSW, M.S.S., CGP

Saturday, February 28
Morning Open Sessions
9:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon

Session 313: Exploring Unspoken Desires:  Discussing Sexual and Erotic Health in Group Psychotherapy

Douglas Braun-Harvey, M.F.T, CGP; Patricia Alford-Keating, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Marti Kranzberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Robert Unger, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Milton Wainberg, M.D., CGP

 

Session 314: The  Many Voices of Empathy: A Peer Supervision Group

Fern Cramer Azima, Ph.D., FAGPA; Frances Bonds-White, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Leonard Horwitz, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Walter Stone, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA

 

Session 315: The Crisis of Hatred

Ken Eisold, Ph.D.; Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D.,

CGP, FAGPA; Susan Gantt, Ph.D., CGP; David

Kipper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Louis Ormont,

Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Saturday, February 28
Morning Workshops
9:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon

Workshop 83: Facilitating The Transition from Individual to Group: Co-Sponsored Event Critical to the Healing Process

Joanne Coleman, M.S.W.

Helene Lockman, M.S.W.

 

Workshop 84: Dead or Alive:  The Therapists Effect on Vitalizing the Group Process

Sara Emerson, LICSW, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

Steven Krugman, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 85: Managing Love and Hate in Group Settings

Ronnie Levine, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 86: Sharing Group Dreams: Enriching the Group Experience and Deepening Bonds

Herbert Rabin, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Karen Shore, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 87: Therapist Self-Disclosure in Group Psychotherapy

Michelle Collins, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 88: Framing Dynamic Group Interventions from a Buddhust Perspective

Francis Kaklauskas, M.A.; Susan

Nimmanheinda, M.S.W., CGP; William Sell,

M.A., CGP

 

Master Workshop 89: Supervision of the Psychoanalytic Process

Clemens Loew, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 90: Redecision Therapy, Personality Adaptations

Vann Joines, Ph.D., CGP

 

Master Workshop 91: Infant Observation Research Applied to Intersubjectivity/Self Psychology and Motivational Systems

Irene Harwood, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 92: Applying Chaos Theory in the Psychotherapy Group

Michael Frank, M.A., MFT, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 93: Listening Within: A Cognitive-Behavioral Model Using Gestalt Principles

Jacqueline Dierks, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 94: Newer Approaches to Treating Narcissistic/Borderline Couples: Introducing the “V” Spot

Joan Lachkar, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 95: Harm Reduction Group Treatment of Substance Abuse and Dual Diagnosis

Jeannie Little, M.S.W., CGP

 

Workshop 96: The Role of Dissociation in Post-Traumatic Stress Phenomena

William Rothwell Mark, M.Div., Carolee

Verdeur Rada, Psy.D.; Donald Wexler, M.D.,

CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 97: Group Therapy for Success-Avoidant Men

Robert Weinstein, Ph.D. CGP

Ellen Wright, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 98: Filial Therapy-A Short-Term Group Approach to Work with Parents and Children

Michael  Andronico, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 99: The Division Into “Us and Them” as a Universal Social Structure

Avi Berman, M.A.; Miriam Berger, M.A.

 

Workshop P 100: Impact of Trauma on the Adolescent Group

Seth Aronson, Psy. D., CGP

Gloria Batkin Kahn, Ed.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop P 101: Presentation of the Protocol (Working Template for Intervention In the Aftermath of Natural Disaster, War, Terrorism)

Darryl Feldman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., CGP;  Nina Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP

Saturday, February 28
Group Psychotherapy Foundation Luncheon
12:15 – 2:15 P.M.

Chicago City Limits

Saturday, February 28
Afternoon Open Sessions
2:30 – 5:30 P.M.

Session 316: The Large Group

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:30-8:30 am) and Friday (1:45-2:45 pm)

Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Meg Sharpe, BA (Hons), M.Inst GA, CGP

Saturday, February 28
Afternoon Workshops
2:30 – 5:30 P.M.

Workshop 102: The Good Ending: When Sad is Satisfying

Jeffrey Mendell, M.D., CGP

Marsha Vannicelli, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 103: The Theater of Symbolic Communication: Act I-Money

Patti Cox, Ph.D., CGP

Michael Hegener, M.A., LPC, CGP

 

Workshop 104: Using the Power of the Moment in Understanding the Past

Rafe Blaugrund, Ph.D.; Gail Brown, M.A.

 

Workshop 105: Authenticity and Self-Disclosure in Group Analysis

Arnold Rachman, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop 106: Power, Gender and the Erotic in Group Psychotherapy

Allan Elfant, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Jennifer Harp, Ph.D., RN, CS, CGP

 

Workshop 107: The Healing Power of Peer Groups for the Therapist

Joseph Fallon, Jr., Ph.D., CGP

Margaret Postlewaite, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 108: How to Teach the “Principles of Group Psychotherapy Course”

Robert Weber, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 109: The Interpersonal Approach to Group Psychotherapy

Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC

 

Workshop 110: Inpatient Psychodrama Under Time Pressure

Charles Coleman, CSW

Rebecca Walters, M.S., TEP

 

Workshop 111: Healing Movements: Body-Centered Group Therapy BIODANZA

Susan Bello, Ph.D., ATR

 

Workshop 112: Group Art Therapy Through the Spontaneous Art Method

Krista Soste, MC, M.A., CSAC, CGP

Eugenia Sutcliffe, Ph.D., BC, ATR

 

Workshop 113: Adolescent Group Therapy: Containing and Managing Trauma, Chaos, and Uproar

Andrew Pojman, Ed.D.

Judith Tellerman, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 114: The Management of Dynamic Process in DBT Skills Groups: How to Stay While Surfing on a Sunamic of Affect

Michael Hollander, Ph.D.

Thursday Sessions and Workshops

Friday Sessions and Workshops