65th Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Friday, February 22

 

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:15 – 8:15 A.M.

 

Session 210: Be It Ever So Humble...The Controversial Issue of Group Psycho-therapy in the Home Office Setting

Robert Pepper, CSW, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 211: Facilitating Transition from a Supervisee to a Supervisor as a Separation-Individuation Step in Group Therapy Training in the Third and Fourth Year of Psychiatric Residency Training

Elaine Cooper, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Nelly Katsnelson, M.D., CGP; Adi Loebl, M.D.; Rachel Mandel, M.D.; Adrianna Shuster, M.D.; David Stern, M.D.

 

Session 212: Advising "Twelve Angry Men" About Their Group Process

Barbara Finn, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Edmund Kal, M.D., CGP

 

Session 213: Psychopharmacology for Group Therapists

David Brook, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 214: Psychologically-Informed Public Health Preparedness: Unique Challenges and New Opportunities for Group Psychotherapists in their Communities

Mark Dembert, M.D., MPH

 

Session 215: A Safe Place to Be or No Place for Me?

Karin Hodges, M.S.

 

Session 216: Suicide Intervention: Large-Scale Debriefing with High School Students in Iran

Massomeh Namavar, Ed.D., CGP

 

Session 217: You're Not the Boss of Me: Working with Resistance in Supervision Groups

Josh White, MA, LPC, CGP

 

 

Friday, February 22

Presidential Address

8:30 - 9:45 A.M.

 

The Mystery and Magic of the Group: What Happens Here That Happens No Where Else?

Connie Concannon, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Friday, February 22
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M. & 2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

         

Workshop 37a: The Exploration of the Dynamics of Attachment in Adult Life

Una McCluskey, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 38a: Fostering Passion and Vibrancy Utilizing Modern Analytic Techniques in the Co-Led Group

Jeanne Bunker, LCSW, CGP; Jay Erwin-Grotsky, LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 39a: Promoting Affect Development within an Integrated Model of Group Psychotherapy

Paul Kaye, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 40a: Discovering and Playing with Parts of the Self Using Group Empathic Imagery

Mark Lawrence, M.D.

 

 

Friday, February 22
Morning Open Sessions
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

 

Session 307: Eliciting Passion: The Group Therapist's Use of Self

Richard Billow, Ph.D., ABPP, Chair; Barbara Cohn, Ph.D., ABPP, FAGPA; Bernard Frankel, Ph.D., BCD, ABPP, FAGPA; Earl Hopper, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 308: Surviving  the Suicide of a Group Member

Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Siobhan O'Neill, M.D., Chair; Karsten Kueppenbender, M.D., CGP

 

Session 309: Group Development and Interventions in College Counseling Centers

Chad Johnson, Ph.D., Chair; Pamela Ashe, Ph.D.; Mark Beecher, Ph.D.; Kristen Davis-John, Ph.D.; Rita Drapkin, Ph.D.

 

Friday, February 22
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

 

 

Workshop 41: Therapeutic Ideals and Therapists' Humanity: Guilt, Shame and Secrets

Esther G. Stone, M.S.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 42: Desire, Metaphor, Stories and Doubt in Group Therapy

Scott Conkright, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 43: Through the Rabbit Hole: Creativity and Play in Groups

Lise Motherwell, Ph.D., Psy.D., FAGPA; Gretchen Schmelzer, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 44: Sitting in the Power Seat: Perspectives on Countertransference and Counterresistance in Involuntary Groups

Steven Henne, M.A.; Jeffrey Price, M.A., LPC, LAC, CGP

 

Master Workshop 45: Supervision Groups: The Power of Parallel Process

Barry Wepman, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 46: Application of Self Psychology to Groups

Joyce Lowenstein, Ph.D.; Bruce Wine, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 47: Training Leaders of Psychoeducational Groups

Nina Brown, Ed.D., LPC, NCC, FAGPA

 

Workshop 48: The Deeper Psychology of Home: Where We Come From, Where We Live Now

Peter J. Taylor, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 49: Form, Content and Relationships--The Dynamic Interplay in LivingDance~LivingMusic™

Danielle Fraenkel, Ph.D., ADTR, NCC, LCAT, LMHC; Jeffrey Mehr, MA

 

Workshop 50: Using Personality Adaptations as a Guide in Group Therapy

Vann Joines, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 51: Eating Disorders: The Group as a Conduit to Healing

Patricia Kyle Dennis, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 52: Sex, Lies, Affairs and Group Therapy

Emily Brown, M.S.W.

 

Master Workshop 53: The Transformative Power of Grieving in Group: Early Parental Loss (Childhood to Age 25)

Mary Sussillo, LCSW, BCD

 

Workshop 54: Politics and Passion of Intimate Relationships with Couples and Group Therapy

Darryl Feldman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Gloria Batkin Kahn, Ed.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 55: Trauma and the University Community: Effects, Response, Recovery

Anne McEneaney, Ph.D., CGP; Nina Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Teyva Zukor, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 56: Personal Stories Seeking Meaning in a Group Theme: An Illustration of a Systemic Model for Therapy and Training Using Drawings and Role Playing

Mina Polemi-Todoulou, Ph.D.; George Gournas, M.D.

 

 

Friday, February 22

Lunch-Time Large Group Session
1:30 – 2:30 P.M.

 

The Large Group

Felix de Mendelssohn, M.S.W.

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:15-8:15 am) and Saturday (2:15-5:30 pm)

 

Friday, February 22

Afternoon Open Sessions
2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

 

Session 310: The Group Therapy Revolution: Passion, Power and Politics

Judith Cochι, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Delane Casiano, M.D., Kevin McCarthy

 

Session 311: Using a Stage Play to Illustrate Principles of Transference in Psychodynamic Group Therapy

Molly Donovan, Ph.D., CGP; Robert Evans Schulte, M.S.W., CGP, Co-Chairs; Maryetta Andrews-Sachs, MA, CGP; John Dluhy, M.D., CGP, FAGPA; Mathew Fleming, Psy.D.; Sheela Kadedar, M.D.; Hallie Lovett, Ph.D., CGP; Tom Teasley; Barry Wepman, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 312: Bridging Two Worlds: A Panel of Senior Clinicians Consult for a Group of Adolescent Muslim Immigrants

Seth Aronson, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Craig Haen, MA, RDT, CGP; Thomas Hurster, MSS, CGP; Gloria Batkin Kahn, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA; Lama Khouri-Padova, M.S.W.;  Faye Mishna, Ph.D., CGP; Judith Tellerman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP

 

Friday, February 22
Afternoon Workshops
2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

 

Master Workshop 57: The Mentorship Experience: The Hope and Promise of Successful Group Leaders

Karen Travis, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 58: Dream Appreciation Group: Experiencing the Power of Working Together with a Dream

Karen Shore, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 59: The Power of Passion: From Fear of Longing to Longing as Bliss

Diane Montgomery-Logan, M.A., CGP

 

Workshop 60: The Practice of Mindfulness and its Affect on Group Process

William Sell, M.A., CGP

 

Master Workshop 61: The Therapist's Struggles with Power & Powerlessness in Group Psychotherapy

Natan HarPaz, Ph.D., ACSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 62: Money and Me: The Group Therapist's Personal and Professional Relationship with Money

Mary Nicholas, LCSW, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 63: From Contention to Conversation: Alternatives to "Yes, but..." Dialogues in Groups, Couples and Life

Claudia Byram, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 64: The Interplay of Passion and Power in the Individual, the Family Group and the Wider Culture

Christopher Farmer, M.D.; Marcia Geller, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 65: The Group as a Hall of Mirrors: A Powerful Force in Illuminating the Awareness of the Defenses

Sima Ariam, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 66: The Use of Guided Enactment Techniques to Enhance Group Exploration

Monica L. Callahan, Ph.D., TEP, CGP

 

Workshop 67: Vicarious Traumatization: A Group Model of Caring for Ourselves While We Care for Others

Carolyn Angelo, M.S.W.

 

Workshop 68: Group Work with Women over 50 in Transition: A Creative Approach

Ruth Neubauer, M.S.W.; Karen Van Allen, M.S.W.

 

Workshop 69:  From Gambler's Anonymous to Group Therapy, A Continuum of Group Process

Barney Straus, M.S.W., M.A., PCGC, CGP

 

Workshop 70: Passion, Politics and Culture in the Post 9/11 Era: Median Group Dialogue

John L. Johnson, Ed.D.; Rachel Lenn, Ph.D., CGP; Karen Stefano, M.A., LPC

 

Master Workshop 71: The Pair and the Person: A Group-Analytic Approach to Problems of Intimacy

John Schlapobersky, BA, MSc., Mem. Inst. G.A.

 

Workshop 72: Passionate Groups and Powerful Medications: Co-Therapy in Medication Groups

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP; Joan Koenig, RN, M.A., AGC, CGP; Kenneth Pollock, Ph.D., CGP

 

 

Friday, February 22

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Dance Party

9:00 P.M.

 

Phoenix

 

Thursday Sessions and Workshops

 

Saturday Sessions and Workshops