Thursday, February 21

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M.-1:15 P.M.

Workshop 7

The Place of theory in our Interventions as Group Leaders

Chair:    

David A. Altfeld, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Co-Director, Supervisory Training Program, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, New York

Theoretical orientations are useful structures for guiding leader interventions. Group-as-a-whole, object-relational, intersubjective, modern analytic, as well as others, may each assist in how we attend. Let's engage this array of opportunities together and examine what part theory may play in our moment by moment choices as leaders.

demonstration-sharing of work experiences-didactic-experiential

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Specify an intervention that a particular theoretical approach might lead you to make in group.
2. Identify a moment in group when theory had little or nothing to do with your group intervention.
3. Identify which theoretical commitments have been guiding your choices as leaders.
 

Course References:

1. Kennard, D., Roberts, J., and Winter, D.A. (1993). A workbook of group-analytic interventions. London and New York: Routledge.
2. Rubenfeld, S. and Dluhy, M. (2004). Self-psychological and relational advances in group therapy. Group, 238, 245-258.