Chairs:            

David Brook, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Professor of Psychiatry at New York

University School of Medicine, New York, New York

Philip Flores, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Clinical Group Supervisor, Emory

University, Atlanta, Georgia

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

The workshop will explore a variety of group treatment approaches for substance abuse/addiction. The theory and techniques of several approaches used in a variety of treatment settings throughout the life cycle will be discussed, and will include modified psychodynamic group psychotherapy, interpersonal group psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral group therapy, time-limited approaches, the transtheoretical stages of change, multiple family group therapy, and self-help approaches.      didactic-sharing of work experiences-demonstration-experiential

Course References:

1. Brook, D. & Spitz, H.  (2002). The Group Therapy of Substance Abuse. New York: Haworth

    Medical Press.

2. Brook, D. (Ed.) (2001). Group therapy and substance abuse. International Journal of Group

    Psychotherapy, 51, 3-122. (Special Issue).

3. Flores, P. (1997). Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations. (Second Edition). New

    York: Haworth Press.