67th Annual Conference

Thursday, February 25

Afternoon Workshops

2:30 - 5:00 P.M.

Master Workshop 24

Supervision Groups: Sustaining Our Practices, Sustaining Ourselves

Chair:

Barry Wepman, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Faculty, Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC

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

Group Psychotherapy is a daunting practice. The supervision group can be a sustaining emotional force for the group psychotherapist. This intensive workshop will explore how the supervision group, using here-and-now methods, can harness the power of group to clarify therapeutic problems in ways that are both immediate and emotionally salient to the participants.

demonstration-sharing of work experiences-experiential-didactic

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Conduct supervision groups using an affectively-based model.
2. Identify the presence of parallel process in a supervision group.
3. Describe the treat-teach dilemma in supervision groups.
4. Identify the boundaries appropriate to supervision.

Course References:

Altfeld, D. A., & Bernard, H.S. (1997). An experiential group model for group psychotherapy supervision. In C. Edward Watkins (Ed.), Handbook of psychotherapy supervision (pp. 381-399). New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Moss, E. (1995) Group supervision: Focus on countertransference. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 45, 537-548.

Kleinberg, J. L. (1999) The supervisory alliance and the training of psychodynamic group psychotherapists. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 49, 159-180.