65th Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Thursday, February 21

 

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

 

Session 201: The Large Group

Chair: Felix de Mendelssohn, M.S.W.

This session is also being held on Friday (1:30-2:30 pm) and Saturday (2:15-5:30 pm)

 

Session 202: The Art of Mindfulness: Healing through Groups

Joseph Tarantolo, M.D., CGP, Chair; Michele Denise Ribeiro, Ed.D.; Miriam Margaret Beatrice Ribeiro, M.S.W.

 

Session 203: The Abject Self: Abjection as an Enactment of Powerlessness

Kathleen Adams, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 204: Fathers and Daughters: Passion, Power and Politics

Shelley Korshak, M.D., CGP

 

Session 205: Re-Empowerment from Ancestral PTSD: Wisdom Traditions in Group Therapy

Hillel Swiller, M.D., FAGPA, Chair; Suzan McVicker, MA; Teresa Ortiz, M.S.W., LCSW

 

Session 206: Do You Remember Me? Working with Individuals with Cognitive Impairment in Your Groups

Sharan Schwartzberg, Ed.D., OTR/L, FAOTA, Chair; Mary Barnes, BS, OTR/L

 

Session 207: Sexual Intimacy: Lost and Found in Group

Allan Elfant, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Sarah Brandel, Ph.D.; Trish Cleary, LCPC-MFT, CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 208: Group Therapy Goes to School

Connie Concannon, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Laverne MacInnis, MS, LCMHC, CGP

 

Session 209: The Challenge of Creating Groups in an Urban Community Mental Health Setting

Monica Thompson Campbell, Ph.D.

 

 

Thursday, February 21
Conference Opening Plenary
8:30 – 9:45 A.M.

 

I Versus We: The Developmental Origins of Security and Insecurity in Groups--An Attachment Perspective

Jeremy Holmes, M.D.

 

Thursday, February 21
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M.– 1:15 P.M. & 2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 1a: Shakespeare, the Dream, Modern Neuroscience and the Group Therapist in the 21st Century

Walker Shields, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 2a: Co-Therapy: Harmonizing Two Distinct and Equal Partners

Barbara Kidder, M.A.; Eugene Kidder, M.Div., CGP

 

Workshop 3a: The Group and the Other: An Intense Exposure to Lacanian Theory and its Application to the Psychoanalytic Group

Macario Giraldo, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 4a: Sexual Desire, Intimacy and Love Conflicts Resolved Through Couples Group Therapy

Barbara Feld, CSW, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA; Philip Luloff, M.D., CGP

 

 

Thursday, February 21
Morning Open Sessions
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

 

Session 301: Fear and Loathing in Groups

Joseph Shay, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Lise Motherwell, Ph.D., Psy.D., FAGPA; J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

 

Session 302: The Treatment of Political Persecution: Victims, Perpetrators and Organizational Responses

Harold Bernard, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; Nina Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP; Leanh Nguyen, Ph.D.; Michael Gelles, Psy.D., Panelists; Howard Kibel, M.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Discussant

 

Session 303: Power and Change in Group Systems: Positive and Negative Outcomes

Fern Cramer Azima, Ph.D., DFAGPA, Chair; Bonnie Buchele, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA; Francis Bonds-White, Ed.D., FAGPA; Jeffrey Kleinberg, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Isaiah Zimmerman, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

 

Thursday, February 21

Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

 

Workshop 5: Ethical and Legal Issues in Group Psychotherapy

Rebecca MacNair-Semands, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 6: Using Forbidden Affects in Group: The Leader's Desire and Aggression
Andrew Eig, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 7: The Place of Theory in our Interventions as Group Leaders

David Altfeld, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Master Workshop 8: Patient Challenges: Supportive or Interpretive Therapist Responses in Complicated Grief Groups

William Piper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Rene Weideman, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 9: The Power of Psychodrama: A Strength Based Approach for Connection, Hope and Healing

Merle Cantor Goldberg, LCSW-C, BCD

 

Workshop 10: Individual Work in Groups: It's More Than You Think

Shari Porter Jung, LMSW, M.S.S.W.; Marti Kranzberg, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 11: "My Name is...And I'm a Food Addict"

Deborah Schwartz, M.D., CGP

 

Master Workshop 12: The Runaway Honey: Working with the Narcissistic Inability to Form a Mature Relationship

Phyllis Cohen, Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 13: The Writer Meets the Internal Reader in the Group

Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 14:  Beyond Process: Techniques that Reduce Defenses and Develop Group Climate

Zipora Shechtman, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop 15:  Cognitive Behavior Therapy Groups for Children: Fostering Resilience and Social Skills

Mary Alvord, Ph.D.; Judy Grados, Psy.D.

 

Workshop 16: Using Group Therapy to Help Adolescents with Co-Occurring Disorders: Combined Mental Health and Addictive Disorders

Marvin Clifford, Ph.D., LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 17:  Imago Relationship Therapy: Growth and Healing in the Relational Paradigm

Rebecca Sears, M.Div., LPC

 

Workshop 18: Creating Thriving Private Practice Psychotherapy Groups

Leon Hoffman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 19: Modern Group Process: An Antidote to Aggression and Attrition in Schools (Kindergarten - University)

Toby Chuah Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 20: Amid Chaos: The Role of the Mental Health Professional

Dianne Kane, D.S.W., CGP; Randy Lehrer, LCSW; Gerald McCleery, Ph.D.

 

Thursday, February 21

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

 

Session 304: Current Research in Group Psychotherapy

Jennifer Johnson, Ph.D., Chair; Mandy Blott, MA; Gerardine Curtin, Ph.D.; Jeffrey Elder, Ph.D.; Melissa Greene, Ph.D.; Marilyn Lanza, Ph.D.; Heather Schloss, MA; Zipora Shechtman, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Session 305: Impasse in Group Psychotherapy: An Opportunity

Sara Emerson, M.S.W., LICSW, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Stewart Aledort, M.D., CGP; Phil Flores, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA; Elliot Zeisel, Ph.D., LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Session 306: The Co-Creation of Leadership: The Interface Between Psychotherapy Groups and Large Group Political Processes

Robert Klein, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Stanley Schneider, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Rosemary Segalla, Ph.D., CGP; Hala Taweel, Ph.D.; Panelists; Cecil Rice, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Victor Schermer, M.A., LPC, CAC, CGP, FAGPA, Discussants

 

Thursday, February 21
Afternoon Workshops
2:45 – 6:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 21: Passionate Engagements: Creating Experience-Near Interventions

Richard Billow, Ph.D., ABPP

 

Workshop 22: Personal Experience: A Neglected Component of our Professional Identity

Jerome S. Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 23: How to Teach the Principles of  Group Psychotherapy Course

Judith Cochι, Ph.D., ABPP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 24: The Need to be Liked: Implications for Group Therapists and Members

Jeffrey Hudson, M.Ed., LPC, CGP, FAGPA; Andrea Pully, M.Ed., LPC, CGP

 

Workshop 25: Searching for Common Ground: Working with Politicized Groups in Divided Communities

David Chrislip, BA, MS, MPA

 

Workshop 26: A Beginner's Guide to Utilizing Role Play in Therapy and Training Groups

Craig Haen, MA, RDT, LCAT, CGP

 

Workshop 27: Transpersonal Group Psychotherapy

John Frederick Hiatt, M.D.

 

Master Workshop 28: Dance with the Unconscious

Nanine Ewing, Ph.D., ADTR, CGP, FAGPA,

 

Workshop 29: The Dynamic Interplay of EMDR and Group Psychotherapy

Katie Steele, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 30: Family Passions and Politics: Mother-in-Law / Daughter-in-Law

Patricia Doyle, Ph.D., CGP; Charlotte Kahn, Ed.D., CGP

 

Workshop 31: The Raging Adolescent: Containment, Confrontation and Compassion

Andrew Pojman, Ed.D., CGP

 

Workshop 32: Group Psychotherapy Experience with Seniors: Different Therapy and Therapeutic Changes at Different Age Levels

Tybe Diamond, M.S.W.; Hindy Nobler, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 33: Exploring Male Intimacy

Jamie Moran, LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 34: Terrorism Wins? - Xenophobia, Hate Crimes, Community Trauma and the Group Therapy Response

Siddharth Ashvin Shah, M.D., MPH

 

Workshop 35: The Psychodynamics of Power and Politics in School Settings

Neil R. Friedman, M.S.; Roberta Slavin, Ph.D., CGP

 

Master Workshop 36: Shadow Families: Transference and Countertransference Reactions When Issues of Adoption Are Present

Miriam Iosupovici, M.S.W.; Maurine Kelber Kelly, Ph.D; Mary Jago Krueger, M.S.Ed., CGP

 

Friday Sessions and Workshops

 

Saturday Sessions and Workshops