61st Annual Conference Sessions and Workshops

Thursday, February 26

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

Session 201: The Large Group

This session is also being held on Friday (1:45-2:45 pm) and Saturday (2:30-5:30 pm)
Earl Hopper,Ph.D.,CGP, FAGPA; Meg Sharpe, BA (Hons), M.Inst GA, CGP 

 

Session 202: Trial by Fire: Lessons Learned by a First-Time Group Therapist

Karin Hodges, B.A.; Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 203: Integrative Time-Limited Group Treatment for Bulimia Nervosa
Joseph Kobos, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Helen Riess, M.D.

 

Session 204: Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents who have Learning Disabilities

Faye Mishna, M.S.W., Ph.D.; Barbara Muska, BSW, M.S.W.

 

Session 205: Through the Looking Glass: Mourning and Healing via a Group Experience in Bosnia

Elinor Dunn Grayer, M.S.W., Ph.D., BCD, CGP, Chair; Janet Sullivan, M.A., NCPsy.A., CMT

 

Session P 206: Understanding How Traumatic Loss Affects Families and How Support Groups Can Help

Seth Aronson, Psy.D., CGP, Chair;  Toby Chuah-Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP; Saul Scheidlinger, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA; Maureen Underwood, ACSW, CGP

 

Session P 207: “Helping the Helpers” Theory and Practice of Post Traumatic Stress Treatment in Groups

Emanuel Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Thursday, Februrary 26
Conference Opening Plenary
8:45 – 10:15 A.M.

Joining a Group’s Task: The Discovery of Hope and Respect
Edward Shapiro, M.D.

Thursday, February 26
All-Day Workshops
10:30 A.M.– 1:30 P.M. & 3:00 – 6:00 P.M.

Master Workshop 1a: Beyond Anxiety to Hope and Respect
Frances Bonds-White, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 2a: Fostering Growth in Women Group Leaders: Issues in Female Development
Hylene Dublin, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 3a: Couples Therapy and Couples Group Therapy: Issues of Selection and Therapy
Ian Alger, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

Barbara Feld, M.S.W., CSW, CGP

 

Workshop P 4a: Mental Health Response to Disaster: What Happens in the Community?
Claude Chemtob, Ph.D.; Randi Cohen, ACSW, M.S.W., M.A., CGP; Marylene Cloitre, Ph.D.; Angela Diaz, M.D.; John Draper, Ph.D.; Spencer Eth, M.D.; Adam Gurvitch; Jessica Klaitman, M.S.W.; Randy Lehrer, M.S.W., CGP; Madelyn Miller, CSW, CGP; April Naturale; Ami Orava; Kelly Ryan; Michael Zeiss;

 

Thursday, February 26
Morning Open Sessions
10:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Session 301: Issues of Hope and Hopelessness in Group Psychotherapy

Harold Bernard, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA; Nancy Edwards, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA; Ronnie Levine, Ph.D., CGP; Martin Livingston, Ph.D., CGP;Phyllis Mervis, D.S.W., M.S.W, CGP

Session 302: Why Did "The Sopranos" Bring "Friends" to "The West Wing"?

Joseph Shay, Ph.D., CGP; Lisa Motherwell, Psy.D., CGP; J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Elizabeth Shapiro, Ph.D.

 

Session P 303: Healing Trauma Through the Creative Arts: Special Projects for Adolescents

Seth Aronson, Psy.D., CGP; Toby Chuah-Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP; Diana Feldman; Maureen Underwood, ACSW, CGP

Thursday, February 26
Morning Workshops
10:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Workshop 5: Revisiting the Family Romance: A Countertransference Workshop

Alice Byrne, M.S.W., CGP; Lois Kennedy,

Psy.D.; Jerome Leff, M.S.W., CGP; Emanuel

Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 6: Your First Step - Starting a Group

Lena Furgeri, ACSW, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 7: “Here & Now and There & Then” - Paradoxes Present in Group Psychotherapy

Robert Carlson, M.Div., M.S.W., CGP

 

Master Workshop 8: Social Dreaming Matrix Workshop (Part1)

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

Seymour Rubenfeld, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 9: The Wizard of Oz as Group Therapist: Invoking our Imaginative Processes

Bruce Bernstein, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 10: Teaching Group Psychotherapy at a University

Scott Simon Fehr, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 11: Designing, Marketing, Starting, and Maintaining Fee-For-Service Groups

Karen Johnson, Psy.D.

Darryl Pure, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 12: Integrating Psychodrama with Family Systems Therapy

Christopher Farmer, M.D.

Marcia Geller, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 13: Using Expressive Movement and Body Awareness to Explore Countertransference Dilemmas of the Group Therapist

Suzanne Cohen, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 14: Life Coaching in Groups: Working with Strengths

Judith Silverstein, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 15: Treating Narcissism in Groups: Opportunities & Hazards

Raymond Battegay, M.D., FAGPA

Leonard Horwitz, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 16: Hope for Connection: Bulimic Symptoms and Interpersonal Struggle

Cindy Miller Aron, M.S.W., CGP

 

Workshop 17: Structured Developmental Play Therapy Groups for School-Aged Children & Adolescents: A Model for Enhancing Social Relatedness & Self Esteem

Robert Milich, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 18: Men Fearing Men: Developing Male Intimacy

Rick Tivers, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 19: Short-term Group Therapy for Complicated Grief

William Piper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Rene Weideman, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 20: An Integrated Humanistic Approach to Outpatient Group Therapy for Sex Offenders

Sheri Bauman, Ph.D.

T. Gregory Kopp, Psy.D.

 

Workshop 21: Social Skills Training for Children and Concurrent Parent Groups: An Integrative Model for Improving Peer Relationships

Leslie Bogen, J.D., Ph.D.; Barbara Flye,

Ph.D.; Jo Hariton, M.S.W.., Ph.D., CGP;

Andrew Romibs, Ph.D.

 

Workshop P 22: Understanding Their Culture: Critical Considerations for Intervention with Uniformed Personnel

 Malachy Corrigan, M.S., R.N., M.S.N.; Darryl Feldman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP;Bill Genet, M.S.; David Hescheles, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA; Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., CGP; Richard Servino; Alice Tarpley, Ph.D., Col (Rtd.); Nina Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP;

Thursday, February 26
Poster Sessions
1:45 – 2:45 P.M.

Poster Session 1: Getting Older

 Anne Corre, R.N., MPH; Albert Krackow, B.A.

 

Poster Session 2: Kid’s Konnection: Using Group to Address the Needs of School-Aged Children When a Parent has Cancer

Shari Baron, M.S.N., RN, CS, CGP;

Kathleen Seaver Coyne, M.S.S., LCSW

 

Poster Session 3: Aggression, Projection, and Boundaries: Parallel Process in a Multi-Level System

Sheila Cummings, Ph.D., CGP; Lisa Lindsay,

Ph.D.; Lisa Willis, Ph.D.

 

Poster Session 4: The Mind of Bariatric Surgery-Group Possibilities

Merle Goldberg, LCSW, BCD, CGP

 

Thursday, February 26
Afternoon Open Sessions
3:00 – 6:00 P.M.

Session 304: Working Relationally in Group Abandonment in the Transference-Countertransference

Richard Billow, Ph.D.; Andrew Eig, Ph.D.; Holly White Gotta, M.S.W., CGP; Marianne Robinson, M.S.W.; Lisa Stern, Ph.D.; Fred Wright, Ph.D.

 

Session 305: Diversity in Aging:  Group Work with Three Different Populations

George Saiger, M.D., CGP, FAGPA; Yael

Danieli, Ph.D.; Rosa Dominguez, M.S.W.,

LCSW; Joel Frost, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA; Molyn

Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC

 

Session P 306: Philanthropic Responses to Tragedy: What Have We Learned

Harold Bernard, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA;

Robert Klein, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Emary

Aronson; Alan Goodman; Helene Lauffer;

Jack Rosenthal

Thursday, February 26
Afternoon Workshops
3:00 – 6:00 P.M.

Workshop 23: Respecting Boundaries and Gender Differences Towards Facilitating Safe Intimacy in Group

Martha Liebmann, CSW, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 24: 'The Nice Group' The Group Leaders Avoidance of Anger & Conflict

Judith Schaer, CSW, M.S.W., CGP

 

Workshop 25: When Patients Criticize the Leader! Ouch!!! Ways to Survive and Tell About It!

Gregory MacColl, CSW, CGP

 

Workshop 26: True Confessions: The Struggles of the Group Therapist in a Tightly Knit Community

Richard Miller, LICSW

 

Workshop 27: Healing Existential Shame and Despair

Virginia Crespo, M.S.W., CSW, ACSW

Carl Goldberg, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 28: Co-Therapy Relationship as Agency in Conduct of Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy

Barbara Kidder, M.A.

Eugene Kidder, M.Div., CGP

 

Workshop 29: Group Supervision: A Solution for Us, Our Clients and Our Communities

Mary Pender Greene, ACSW, CGP

 

Master Workshop 30: Anti-Group Forces in Training Groups

David Altfeld, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 31: 12-Step Psychodrama Model

Louise Lipman, CSW, TEP, CGP

 

Workshop 32: Hakomi Therapy: Skills in Groups

Gregory Johanson, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 33: The Instinctive Attachment System and Group Interaction: Affect Attunement, Identification, Arousal and Regulation

Una McCluskey, D.Phil.

 

Workshop 34: Tomboys, Sissies and Other Outsiders: Working with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth

Marti Kranzberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 35: Mother-Daughter Relationship Through the Group’s “Halls of Mirrors”

Shoshana Ben-Noam, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 36: Men and Women in Competition for Intimacy: Jealousy, Envy, or Enjoyment?

Leyla Navaro, M.A

Steven Van Wagoner, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 37: Ethics in Group Psychotherapy

Eleanore Komet, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

D. Thomas Stone, Jr., M.D., CGP

 

Workshop 38: Leadership Assumptions in Promoting Effective Work Teams

Samuel James, Ed.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop P 39: Approaches to Early Intervention Strategies in the Face of Disaster

David Hescheles, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA;Darryl

Feldman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Wenona Barnes, Ph.D.,

CADC, CEAP, RT; Cherie Castellano, M.A., CSW,

LPC, AAETS;George Everly, Jr., Ph.D.;Gene

Moynihan, Jr., CSW, BCD, CASAC;Alice Tarpley,

Ph.D., Col (Rtd.)

 

Workshop P 40: Caring for the Caregivers in a Traumatized School Community – A Model Intervention Plan Gleaned from Experiences Post-9/11

Toby Chuah-Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP

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