Marcario Giraldo, Ph.D., CGP

Ayana Watkins-Northern, Ph.D.

This session is also being held on Friday (12:45-1:45 pm) and Saturday (1:30-4:00 pm)

Session 202: As Good As It Gets: Group Training For Psychiatric Residents When Dual Relationships Cannot Be Avoided

Charles S. Pohl, M.S.W., Chair; Seamus Michael Bhatt-Mackin, M.D., Russell Paul Hopfenberg, Ph.D., CGP, Wendy Taylor, M.S.W., M.F.T.

Session 203: Use of Focal Conflict Theory  in a Role Training Group

Cecelia Winkelman, Ph.D.

Session 204: Finding Common Ground: Effective Treatment for Self-Harming and Suicidal Clients

Session 205: Infusing Group Therapy Programs in University Counseling Centers with Multiculturalism: Challenges and Triumphs

Scott Cypers, Ph.D., Chair; Hue-Sun Ahn, Ph.D., Kristen Davis-John, Ph.D., Pejcharat Harvey, Ph.D.

Thursday, February 25
Annual Anne and Ramon Alonso Plenary Address

8:30 – 9:45 A.M.

Mental Health: An Endangered Concept Individually and Communally

Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.

Thursday, February 25
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M.– 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

Master Workshop 1a: The Inevitable Impact of the Psychotherapist’s Life Narrative on Group Work

Allan Elfant, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, LFAGPA

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy experience.

Workshop 2a: Dissociative Processes and Mentalization in Group Therapy

Robert Berley, Ph.D., CGP; Karis Klassen, M.A., K. Brynolf Lyon, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 3a: Is Your Trauma Showing?  The Recreation of Unconscious Traumatic Experience between Co-Leaders

Lorraine Wodiska, Ph.D., CGP, DLFAGPA; Barbara Wood, Ph.D.

Workshop 4a: The Ties that Bind: Letting Go and Holding on in Bereavement Groups

Mary Sussillo, LCSW, BCD, CGP

Thursday, February 25
Morning Open Sessions
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

Session 301: Developing Group Interventions in College Counseling Centers

Michele Ribeiro, Ed.D., Chair; Lillian Chiang, Ph.D., Trent Davis, Ph.D., Brandon Phillips, Psy.D., Susan Walker, Ph.D., Erica Liu Wollin, Psy.D.

Session 302: Exploring The Group Therapist's Subjectivity

Richard Billow, Ph.D. ABPP, CGP, Chair; Bernard Frankel, Ph.D., LCSW, ABPP, FAGPA, Karen Shore, Ph.D., CGP

Session 303: Using a Stage Play to Illustrate Principles of Psychodynamic Group Therapy

Molly Donovan, Ph.D., CGP, Robert Evans Schulte, M.S.W., CGP, Co-Chairs; Maryetta Andrews-Sachs, M.A., CGP, John Dluhy, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Hallie Lovett, Ph.D. CGP, Rosemary Segalla, Ph.D., CGP, Paul Timin, M.S.W., Rob Williams, M.S.W., CGP

Thursday, February 25

Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

Workshop 5: Creating Your Own Style of Leadership

Neal Spivack, Ph.D., CGP

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience.

Workshop 6: Philosophical Underpinnings of Psychotherapy and the Vicissitudes of Intellect and Affect

Marc Schramm, Psy.D., CGP

Workshop 7: Fight, Flee or Engage: Working with Aggression in Groups

Joseph Acosta, M.A., CGP

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience.

Workshop 8: So You Never Gave a Workshop: Banishing Professional Stage Fright and Creating New Possibilities

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

Workshop 9: East Meets West: Meditation in the Group Process

Joseph Tarantolo, M.D., CGP

Master Workshop 10: Psychoanalytic Supervision Group

Priscilla Kauff, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy experience.

Workshop 11: Positive Psychodrama Revisited: Finding the Genius Within

Merle Cantor Goldberg, LCSW-C, CGP

Workshop 12: Complexity Theory and Art: Contributions to Group Psychotherapy

Allan Gelber, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 13: Together Through Song: The Power of Communal Singing to Create Connection and Elevate Mood

Workshop 15: Til Trauma Do Us Part: Helping Couples Heal in the Aftermath of Trauma and Combat Stress

Dianne Kane, DSW, CGP, Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 16: Privacy and the New Media: Ethical, Liability, and Practice Issues in Contemporary Adolescent Group Psychotherapy (Ethics CEUs)

Seth Aronson, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, Thomas Hurster, M.S.S., CGP

Workshop 17: Don't Just Sit There; Do Something!   Contrasting Psychotherapy Groups and Activities Therapy Groups for Older Adults

George Max Saiger, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Kenneth Martin Schwartz, M.D., FRCPC, Sharan Schwartzberg, Ed.D., OTR/L, FAOTA

Workshop 18: Bisexual Identity Development in Group

Cara Armstrong, Ph.D., Katie Griffin M.A., LPC, CGP

Workshop 19: The Impact of Different Leadership Styles on Organizations

Darryl Pure, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 20: Marketing and Networking Skill Building: Key to Thrive in a Changing World

Carol Dallinga, LCSW, CGP

Thursday, February 25

Afternoon Open Sessions
2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

Session 304: Interpersonal Neurobiology: Sustaining Our Minds and Relationships in Groups: MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) and SCT (Systems Centered Therapy)

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP, Chair;  Mitchel Adler, Psy.D., CGP Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DLFAGPA, Susan Gantt, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Steven Hickman, Psy.D.

Session 305: Love, Loathing, and Countertransference: Working with LGBTQ Group Members

Joel Frost, Ed.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Chair; Cara Armstrong, Ph.D., Charles Bittner, M.Div., M.A., CGP, Jeanne Bunker, M.S.S.W., CGP, Justin Hecht, Ph.D., CGP

Session 306: Conversations about Organizational Leadership

Eleanor Counselman, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; David Hawkins, M.D., CGP, DLFAGPA, Michael Hegener, M.A., L.P.C., CGP; Etta Martin, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA, J. Scott Rutan, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Sherrie Smith, LCSW-R, CGP, FAGPA

Thursday, February 25
Afternoon Workshops
2:30-5:00 P.M.

Workshop 22: Considering Life Changes in a Constantly Changing World

Bruce Bernstein, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 23: The Art of the Sell-Selling Group Therapy to Clients

Rufus Gonzales, Ph.D., Scott Kaplan, M.S., Tari Mellinger, Ph.D.

Master Workshop 24: Supervision Groups: Sustaining Our Practices, Sustaining Ourselves

Barry Wepman, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy experience.

Workshop 25: A Distance Learning Primer

Barbara Dazzo, LCSW, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Esther Stone, M.S.S.W., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 26: Sustaining Ourselves in a Large Group Experience: From Selfobject through Intersubjectivity to Mutual Recognition

Mary Dluhy, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA, MaryAnn Dubner, Ph.D., CGP, Rosemary Segalla, Ph.D., CGP

Workshop 27: Analytical Psychology and Spirituality: Finding Meaning in Group Experience

Stephanie Fariss, JD, LCSW, CGP

Workshop 28: Metaphor and Narrative in Group

Scott Conkright, Psy.D., CGP

Workshop 29: Mindfulness-Based Process Group Psychotherapy

Sarah Kallick, Psy.D., James O'Keefe, M.S., J.D., LCPC, CGP

Workshop 30: Plunging In, Splitting Off and Catching Affect: The Back-and-Forth of Boundary Crossings

Brigid Cahill, Ph.D., CGP, Sheila Cummings, Ph.D., Lisa Willis, Ph.D., CGP

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience.

Workshop 31: Who Says I Have to Stop Drinking: Harm Reduction Groups, Dual Disorders, and Ambivalence

Jeannie Little, LCSW, CGP

Workshop 32: Multiple Family Therapy: Groups for Change

Frédéric La Belle, M.F.A., CGP

Workshop 33: Couples Gone Wild: Top 10 Complications in Treating Couples

Joseph Shay, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

Workshop 34: Adolescent Group Therapy: Method, Madness and the Basics

Andrew Pojman, Ed.D., CGP

Workshop 35: Military Mental Health- Treatment Challenges in a Unique Environment

Capt. Paul Hammer, M.D., Capt. Edward Simmer, M.D., MPH, CGP

Workshop 36: Catch the World; Vicissitudes in an Intercultural Group

Maria van Noort, Psy.D.

Friday Sessions and Workshops

Saturday Sessions and Workshops