61st Annual Conference

Workshop P 78
Disaster Relief CGPs:  Processing Our Experiences

Chair:             

Trish Cleary, M.S., LCPC-MFT, CGP, Private Practice, Chevy Chase, Maryland

The Certified Group Psychotherapists running post 9/11 Disaster Relief groups will have the opportunity to process and reduce stress responses experienced in the year plus work containing the trauma of others, identify vicarious traumatization phenomena in trauma groups, and experience the curative power of group.         experiential-sharing of work experiences-didactic-demonstration

Course References: 

1. Klein, R. and Schermer, V.  (eds.)  (2000) Group Psychotherapy for Psychological Trauma.  New

    York: Guilford Publications. 

2. Livingston, M. (1999). Vulnerability, tenderness and the experience of self-object relationship: A

    self psychological view of deepening curative process in group psychotherapy. International

    Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 49, 19-40.

3. Pearlman, L. A., & Mac Ian, P. S. (1995)  Vicarious traumatization:  An empirical study of the

    effects of trauma work on trauma therapists.  Professional Psychology:  Research and Practice,

    26(6), 558-565.