65th Annual Conference

Thursday, February 21

Afternoon Workshops

2:45 P.M.-6:00 P.M.

Workshop 21       

Passionate Engagements: Creating Experience-Near Interventions

Chair:         

Richard M. Billow, Ph.D., ABPP, Director, Group Program, Derner Inst., Adelphi U. Garden City, NY

The relational therapist fosters passion, or meaningful emotional group relationships, by engaging others in experience-near interactions. Participants will learn four types of therapeutic engagements: diplomacy, integrity, sincerity, and authenticity. These categories impact leader decisions regarding member-member, member-therapist, subgroup/whole group,and concrete/symbolic types of focus.
Sharing of work experiences-didactic-experiential-demonstration
 

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Expand and extend their understanding of relational theory.
2. Identify as well as experience the various modes of engagement: diplomacy, integrity, sincerity, and authenticity.
3. Increase their repertoire of therapeutic interventions in group situations 4. Increase awareness of legitimate and appropriate moves and countermoves to the therapist's interventions.
 

Course References:

1. Billow, R. (2003) Relational group psychotherapy: From basic assumptions to passion. London & NY: Jessica Kingsley.
2. Bion, W.(1977) Seven Servants: Four works by Wilfred R. Bion. NY: Aronson.

3. Grotstein, J. (2003) Introduction. In RMBillow, Relational group psychotherapy, pp. 13-28.