67th
Annual Conference
Saturday, February 27
Afternoon Workshops
1:30 -
4:00 P.M.
Workshop
103
Creating and Expanding Your Group Psychotherapy Practice
Chair:
Participants in
this workshop will learn ways to create, streamline, and expand their
existing and proposed group psychotherapy practices. We will
extrapolate as needed to diverse populations, settings and
theoretical modalities. Topics will include preparing the
patient, selection composition, problem patients, recordkeeping,
co-therapy, the contract (agreement), boundaries, fee issues,
electronic considerations, and marketing strategies.
sharing of work
experiences-didactic-experiential-demonstration
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Sharpen his/her
skills in preparing patients for group psychotherapy;
2. Recognize and
attend to boundary issues;
3.
Prepare and
complete group psychotherapy contract.
4. Identify
marketing strategies.
Course References:
Hoffman, Leon J.
(1999). Preparing the Patient for Group Psychotherapy (Ch.6) in A
Guide to Starting Psychotherapy Groups, Price, John R., Hescheles,
David R., and Price, A. Rae (eds), Academic Press, a Division of
Harcourt, Inc., San Diego.
Weiner, Myron F.
(1984). Techniques of Group Psychotherapy. American Psychiatric
Press, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Yalom, I.D.
(1995). The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. 4th ed.
Basic Books, New York. |
