67th Annual Conference

Saturday, February 27

Afternoon Workshops

1:30 - 4:00 P.M.

Workshop 92

Learning/Teaching Group Leadership & Process by Interacting with 'Twelve Angry Men'

Chair:

Edmund F. Kal, M.D., CGP, Clinical Associate Professor, UCSF-Fresno Campus; Department of Psychiatry, Fresno, California

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

This workshop shall be an experiential method for participants to discover for themselves the dynamics of groups and the skills of influencing them by acting as "quasi-participant" observers of this 1957 Henry Fonda movie classic about the conflicts in the course of a jury's deliberations. We shall repeatedly interrupt the movie at critical junctures to share and discuss our observations and insights as well as role-playing alternative scenarios suggested by workshop participants.

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Learning Objectives:

Attendee will be able to:

1. Analyze how the personal goals of at least 3 jury members influence each others' behaviors.

2. Describe at least 2 typical group-roles displayed by jury members.

3. Identify at least 3 successful techniques employed by the official/de facto "leader" of the jury group.

Course References:

Berne, E. (1973). Structure and Dynamics of Organizations and Groups. Random House Group.

MacKenzie, K. R. (1997). Time-managed Group Psychotherapy. American Psychiatric Press. Washington, DC.

Powles, W. E. (2007). Reflections on 'What is a Group?' International Journal of Group Psychotherapy,v.5l n.1.