67th Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Saturday, February 27

 

 

Saturday, February 27

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:45 – 8:45 A.M.

 

Session 212: Facilitating Transition from a Supervisee to a Supervisor

Nelly Katsnelson, M.D., CGP, Chair; Adriana Shuster, M.D.

 

Session 213: Stirring the Pot:  Some Clinical and Ethical Implications of Boundary Crossings in Group Psychotherapy

Robert Pepper CSW, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 214: From Combat to Collaboration

Betsy Ross, M.S.W., CGP, Catherine Kligler, Ph.D.

 

Session 215: The New Fathers Group: How Men Help Each Other Develop in their Roles as Parents

Bruce Linton, MFT, Ph.D.

 

Session 216: Radical Inclusion:  A Model for Working with Substance Users in Harm Reduction Groups

Anna Berg, M.A., Perri Franskoviak, Ph.D., Jamie Lavender, M.A., MFT
 

 

Saturday, February 27

Early Morning Colloquies

7:45 - 8:45 A.M.

 

Colloquy 10: The Use of Outcome Measures to Market Groups

Thomas Doughman, M.A.

 

Colloquy 11: Understanding How Attachment Theory and Interpersonal Theory Inform Group Stage:  Blending Intrapsychic, Interpersonal and Group-as- a-Whole

Kyle Barry, Greg Capriotti, Martyn Whittingham, Ph.D.

 

Colloquy 12: 'Living in the Middle': Themes of Ambivalence in a Transgender Support Group--Sustaining our World

Rebecca Goldstein, B.A., Reginald Nettles, Ph.D., Hilary Roscoe, M.Ed.

 

Colloquy 13: A Unique Approach to Navigating Life and Work Transitions: Blending Career Counseling and Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Group Process Successfully

Roni Blau, LCSW, Tina Hookom, M.S.W., LCSW, Joanne Webb

 

 

Saturday, February 27
All-Day Workshops

9:00 – 11:30 A.M. & 1:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 73a: The Mindful Therapist: Integrating Self-Reflection and Self-Regulation

Gaea Logan, M.A., Siddharth Shah, M.D., MPH

 

Workshop 74a: Judgement and Curiosity: Exploring Bion's K and -K

Lawrence Viers, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 75a: Transformational Leadership and the Power Lab

Lise Motherwell, Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, Gretchen Schmelzer, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 76a: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Theory, Process, and Interventions for Healing the Couple Relationship

Karen Shore, Ph.D., CGP

 

 

Saturday, February 27
Morning Open Sessions
9:00 – 11:30 A.M.

 

Session 313: Scapegoating in Group Therapy: Integrating Girard's Mimetic Theory and Agazarian's Systems-Centered Approach

Alexis Abernethy, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Alvin Dueck, Ph.D., Lisa Danner Finlay, M.A., Scott Garrels, Ph.D., Christopher Waters, M.A.

 

Session 314: To Speak Or Not To Speak: Is That The Question?: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue About The Therapist In The Group

John Schlapobersky, B.A., MSc., MembInst.G, Chair; Phyllis Cohen Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, LFAGPA, Howard Kibel, M.D., CGP, DLFAGPA; Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC, FAGPA

 

Louis R. Ormont Lecture

Session 315: Life Focus Communities

Erving Polster, Ph.D.

 

 

Saturday, February 27
Morning Workshops
9
:00
– 11:30 A.M.

 

Workshop 77: Using the Power of the Moment in Understanding the Past: A Modern Analytic Approach

Gail Brown, M.A., CGP

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

 

Workshop 78: Affect in Supervision

Eleanor Counselman, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA, Kathleen Ulman, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 79: Sustainable Programs:  Teaching Group Therapy Using Structured Exercises

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP, Joan Koenig, M.A., NP, CGP, Kenneth Pollock, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 80: Radical Responsibility: The Therapist's Professional Will (A Hands-On Law and Ethics Workshop)

Ann Steiner, Ph.D., MFT, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 81: How to be Yourself in a Democracy: Promoting and Sustaining Connection to Self and Others in a Time-Limited Group

Rhona Engels, LCSW, John Mulgrew, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP

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

 

Workshop 82: Tango: Risk and Connections (A metaphor for the Intersubjective Group Experience)

Connie Vitale, M.A., FAGPA

 

Workshop 83: “Meaning Makers Make It:” Co-Creating Meaningful Structures in Group Psychotherapy

Robin Gayle, Ph.D., MFT, Victor Schermer, M.A., LPC, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 84: Schema Focused/Lifetrap Group Psychotherapy: Treating the Challenging “Return Customers” for Psychotherapy

Raymond Koziol, Jr., Ph.D.

 

Workshop 85: Transpersonal Group Psychotherapy

John Frederick Hiatt, M.D.

 

Workshop 86: Gaining and Sustaining Stamina through Qigong

Linda Eisenberg, M.A., M.Ed., CGP

 

Workshop 87: Group Therapy for Schizophrenic Patients

Nick Kanas, M.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 88: Short Term Groups for Adolescents

Paul Kymissis M.D., FAGPA

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

 

Workshop 89: Men and Women:  Separate and Together Sustaining Our World

Hylene Dublin, M.S.W., LCSW, CGP, LFAGPA, Paul Kaye, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Saturday, February 27

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Luncheon
11:30 – 1:30 P.M.

 

 

Saturday, February 27
Afternoon Open Session
1:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

Session 316: The Large Group

Macario Giraldo, Ph.D., CGP

Ayana Watkins-Northern, Ph.D.

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:15-8:15 am) and Friday (12:30-2:30 pm)

 

 

Saturday, February 27
Afternoon Workshops
1:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 90: Pick Me! Pick Me! The Art and Science of Group Member Selection

Alice Faulkner, M.S.W., CGP, Christopher Vaughan, M.S.W., Ph.D.

 

Workshop 91: Making Time to Say Goodbye

Jeffrey Mendell, M.D., MPH, CGP, Marsha Vannicelli, Ph.D., CGP, LFAGPA

 

Workshop 92: Learning/Teaching Group Leadership & Process by Interacting with "Twelve Angry Men"

Edmund Kal, M.D., CGP

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

 

Workshop 93: Towards Authenticity - Beyond the Traditional Psychotherapy Outcome

Witold Simon M.D., Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 94: Body-Speech-Mind: An Experiential Group Approach to Clinical Supervision

Lauren Marie Casalino, M.A., Karen Kissel Wegela, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 95: Redecision Therapy: Combining Individual Work and Group Process

Vann Joines, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 96: Mindfulness Practice as Model for Group Therapy: Group Therapy as Mindfulness Practice for the Therapist

Steven Alper, M.S.W., LCSW

 

Workshop 97: LivingDance~LivingMusic™ and “Living Neuroscience”: Body Secrets™ to Sustaining our World

Danielle Fraenkel, Ph.D., ADTR, NCC, LCAT, LMHC, CGP

 

Workshop 98: Keeping the Flame Alive: Leading Successful Semi-Structured Short-Term Process Groups

Chad V. Johnson, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 99: Fathers and Daughters: The Promise of Intimacy

Shelley Korshak, M.D., CGP

 

Workshop 100: Nurturing Curious Minds in Child and Adolescent Group Therapists: Integrating Clinical and Research Agendas

Karin Hodges, Psy.D., Roberta Slavin, Ph.D., CGP, Zipora Shechtman, Ph.D., FAGPA

 

Workshop 101: LGBT Family of Origin and Families of Choice: A Psychodrama Workshop

Jacob Gershoni, LCSW, TEP, CGP

 

Workshop 102: The Community as the Group

Bruce Gilberg, Ph.D., MPA

 

Workshop 103: Creating and Expanding Your Group Psychotherapy Practice

Leon J. Hoffman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, LFAGPA

 

 

Thursday Sessions and Workshops

 

Friday Sessions and Workshops