61st Annual Conference
Thursday,
February 26
Morning Workshops
10:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
Workshop 11
Designing, Marketing, Starting, and
Maintaining Fee-For-Service Groups
Chairs:
Karen Johnson,
Psy.D., Principal, Clinician Coach,
Birmingham, Alamaba
Darryl Pure,
Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA,
Coordinator, Group
Psychotherapy,
Northwestern
University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
Open to participants with less than four years of
group psychotherapy experience
Clinicians wishing
to include group therapy in their practices often hesitate not
knowing where to begin. In this workshop, participants will be
taught a nuts-and-bolts approach to designing, starting, and
marketing groups. Members will be given materials which will serve
as a step-by-step, how-to guide for choosing the type of group,
target client population, and referral sources most suited to
achieving their goals. They will also learn how to effectively
market groups to referral sources and potential clients.
didactic-sharing of work
experiences-experiential-demonstration
Course References:
1. Ackley, D. (1999). Breaking Free of Managed Care. Guilford
Press.
2. Rutan, J. & Stone, W. (1984).
Psychodynamic Group
Psychotherapy. Collamore, Lexington.
3. Yalom, I. (1995).
Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy.
ed. 4. Basic Books.
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