61st Annual Conference

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

Workshop 102
The Good Ending: When Sad is Satisfying

Chairs:            

Jeffrey Mendell, M.D., CGP, Private Practice, Cumberland, Maryland

Marsha Vannicelli, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Associate Clinical Professor,

Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Salient aspects of termination and loss (and attendant sadness, regret and disappointment) will be experienced and elucidated through a structured format designed to help participants understand and make meaning of the process of saying good bye. This workshop, in the final, segment of this five day conference, will provide an opportunity for participants to experience the impact and explore the meaning of endings in their own lives, as well as in the groups that they lead, as they come up against this particular end boundary--the end of the conference. 

experiential-sharing of work experiences-didactic-demonstration

Course References:

1. Lothstein, L. (1993). Termination Processes In-Group Psychotherapy. In H. Kaplan &

    B.Sadock (Eds), Comprehensive Group Psychotherapy. 115-124, Philadelphia: Williams

    and Wilkins..

2. Schermer, V. & Klein, R. (1996). Termination in Group Psychotherapy from the

    Perspectives of Contemporary Object Relations Theory and Self-Psychology.

    International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 46(1), 99-115.

3. Vannicelli, M. (1992). Removing the Final Patient Roadblock: Termination. In: M.

    Vannicelli, Removing the Roadblocks: Group Psychotherapy with Substance Abusers and

    Family Members.