61st Annual Conference

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

Workshop 44
The Group Leader's Tasks

 

Chair:              

Judith Simon, Ph.D., FAGPA, Private Practice, Los Altos, California

 

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience

 

This workshop will address the multitude of therapist tasks in a psychodynamic group: managing group composition, crises, anger and resistances; facilitating members' participation; protection; boundary maintenance, fee collection, therapist absences, communication with individual therapists.                                      

didactic-sharing of work experiences-demonstration-experiential

 

Course References:

 

1. Simon, J. (1992). "The Group Therapist's Absence and the Substitute Leader,".

    International Journal of Group Psychotherapy.

2. Ormont, L. (1990). The Craft of Bridging. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy.

3. Rosenthal, L. (1976). Resolution of Group Destructive Resistances. Modern

Psychoanalysis.