64th
Annual Conference
Saturday, March 9
All-Day Workshops
8:45 –12:00
P.M. & 2:15-5:30 P.M.
Workshop
72
Passionate Groups and
Powerful Medications: Co-Therapy in Medication Groups
Presented under the auspices of the
AGPA SIG for the Treatments of Severely and
Persistently Mentally Ill
Chairs:
Paul D. Cox, M.D., CGP,
Associate Professor, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California
Joan M. Koenig, RN, M.A., AGC, CGP,
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York
Kenneth M. Pollock, Ph.D., CGP,
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College,
Valhalla, New York
The workshop will emphasize the
growth opportunities inherent in medication groups for patients and
for therapists. Medication groups are inherently integrative of
pharmacological and psychological treatments. After briefly
orienting people to what we do in medication groups, we will spend
the bulk of the time exploring the challenges inherent in
integration as they show up in co-therapy between leaders coming out
of different disciplinary traditions.
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Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Plan a medication group using the unique
strengths and training of each co-leader.
2. Prepare a patient for a medication group by explaining its
inherent integrative opportunities.
3. Compare and contrast the different mechanisms for healing
available in a medication group.
Course References:
1. Cox PD, Ilfeld FE, Squire Ilfeld B,
Brennan CS: Administrators and Group Therapists Collaborating in
Group Program Development, International Journal of Group
Psychotherapy, Vol. 56 No. 1, p 4-28; 2000.
2. McIntosh, D., Stone, W. N., &
Grace, M. (1991). The flexible boundaried group: Format, techniques,
and patients' perceptions. International Journal of Group
Psychotherapy, 41,49-64.
3. Yalom, I. (1995).
The Theory and
Practice of Group Psychotherapy. New York: Basic Books. |
