67th Annual Conference
Thursday,
February 25
Early Morning Colloquies
7:15 - 8:15 A.M.
Session
203
Use of Focal Conflict Theory in a Role Training Group
Presenter: Cecelia Winkelman, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
Drawing on both psychodynamic and psychodramatic theory, the paper
examines the tension between the trainees' desire to develop
themselves as therapists and the defensiveness that may block such
learning. Concepts such as tolerating uncertainty may conflict with
the trainees' wish to be helpful.
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will be able to:
1.
Explain the focal-conflict model.
2.
Appreciate defensiveness.
3.
Identify control as a block to empathy.
Course References:
Bramley, W. (1979).
Group tutoring. Concepts and case studies.
London: Kogan Page. (See pp. 70-73.).
Leveton, E. (2001).
A clinician’s guide to psychodrama (3rd ed.).
New York: Springer.
Whitaker, D.S., & Lieberman. (2008).
Psychotherapeutic change
through the group process. New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine Transaction.
(Original work published 1964). |
