69th Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Friday, March 9

 

 

Friday, March 9

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:15 – 8:15 A.M.

 

Session 206: Psychiatry and the Law 101: Risk Management in the Internet Age (Psychiatry SIG Breakfast Meeting)

Ruth Geller, MD, MEd, Chair

Michele Beier, JD

David Cash, JD, LLM

 

Session 207: The “Existential Givens” as Frame for Eating Disorder Intervention Groups

Susan Cooper, PhD

 

Session 208: The Development of Common Ground for the Promotion of Group Psychotherapy in Europe: EGATIN (European Group Analytic Training Institutions Network) and its Evolution, 25 Years in the Making

Heribert Knott, MD

Zoe Voyatzaki, MA

 

Session 209: The Use of the Game of the Mexican Lottery as an Effective Tool in the Process of Group Therapy

Jose Cherbowsky, PhD, MFT

 

Session 210: Ubumwe (Unity): Working with Genocide Survivors and Perpetrators in Rwanda

Tiffany Masson, PsyD

Melanie Spain, MA

 

Friday, March 9

Early Morning Colloquies

7:15 - 8:15 A.M.

 

Colloquy 4: Developing Professional Discussion Groups

Gregory MacColl, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Colloquy 5: Outcomes Six Months after Terminating a Long-Term Group of Patients with Psychosis

Janja Mihoci, MSc

Marjeta Blinc Pesek, MD

 

Colloquy 6: G.A.M.E. On: Starting and Facilitating a Group for College Students on the Autism Spectrum

Katy Kopp Miller, PsyD

Michelle Patriquin, MA

 

 

Friday, March 9
 Anne and Ramon Alonso Presidential Plenary Address

8:30 – 9:45 A.M.

 

The Many Layers of Hope in Group Psychotherapy

Kathleen Hubbs Ulman, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

 

 

All-Day Courses
Friday, March 9
10:00 A.M.– 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

 

C3. We All Bleed: Finding Common Ground in a Biased World

Director:

Siddharth Ashvin Shah, MD, MPH

 

Faculty:

Cindy Miller Aron, MSW, CGP

Razia Kosi, LCSW-C

Nina Thomas, PhD, ABPP, CGP

 

C4. Training in Group Psychotherapy Supervision

Directors:

Harold Bernard, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DLFAGPA

Henry Spitz, MD, CGP, DFAGPA

 

C5. Integrative Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy

Director:

Greg Crosby, MA, LPC, CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Two-Day Courses

Friday, March 9, 10:00 A.M.– 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:45 P.M. and

Saturday, March 10, 9:00 – 11:30 A.M. & 1:30 – 5:15 P.M.

 

C9.  Trauma Group Training across Time, Populations and Cultures

Directors:

Robert Klein, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DLFAGPA

Suzanne Phillips, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Faculty:

Richard Beck, RCSW, BCD, CGP, FAGPA

Alfred Garwood, MB, ChB, LRCP, MRCS, MInstGA

Dianne Kane, DSW, LCSW, CGP

Maureen Underwood, ACSW, CGP

Fernando Valadez, MD

 

 

Friday, March 9
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 – 5:00 P.M.

         

Workshop 33a: Functional Subgrouping in Systems-Centered Small and Median Groups

Yvonne Agazarian, EdD, CGP, FAPA, DLFAGPA

 

Master Workshop 34a: The Common Ground of Mind: Mentalization and Dissociation in Group Therapy

Robert Berley, PhD, CGP

Karis Klassen, MA

K. Brynolf Lyon, PhD, CGP

 

Workshop 35a: Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction

Jeffrey Roth, MD, CGP, FAGPA

Deborah Schwartz, MD, FRCPC, CGP

 

 

Friday, March 9
Morning Open Sessions
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

 

Session 307: Fantasy and Visions: Complements and Contrasts of Object Relations and Jungian Approaches to Group Psychotherapy

Elaine Cooper, MSW, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Chair

Stewart Aledort, MD, CGP, FAGPA

Justin Hecht, PhD, CGP

 

Session 308: Mapping Theory to Technique: Where the Model Meets the Method

Joseph Shay, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Chair

Richard Billow, PhD, ABPP, CGP

Eleanor Counselman, EdD, CGP, LFAGPA

Earl Hopper, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Priscilla Kauff, PhD, CGP, DFAGPA

 

Session 309: The Japanese Disasters: Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Fern Cramer Azima, PhD, CGP, DLFAGPA, Chair

Seth Aronson, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA

Yumiko Ogawa, PhD

Masami Yamamoto, MA

 

 

Friday, March 9
Morning Workshops
10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

 

Workshop 36: Accelerating Group Development

Art Raisman, PhD, CGP

 

Workshop 37: The Art of the Sell-Selling Group Therapy to Clients

Scott Alexander Kaplan, PhD

 

Workshop 38:

CANCELLED

 

Workshop 39: Strong Group Foundations: Teaching Group Therapy Using Structured Exercises

Paul Damian Cox, MD, CGP

Joan Koenig, RN, MA, CGP

Kenneth Pollock, PhD, CGP

Brian Rothberg, MD

 

Master Workshop 40: How to Conduct Group Consultation Using a Distance Learning Format

Sherrie Smith, LCSW-R, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 41: Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Developing Effective Co-Leader Partnerships

Allan Sheps, MSW; Joan-Dianne Smith, MSW

 

Workshop 42: Lacanian Desire in Groups

Scott Conkright, PsyD, CGP

 

Workshop 43: Object Relations Theory, Attachment Theory, and Belonging (AGPA & EGPS Continuous Group)

Bonnie Buchele, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA

 

Workshop 44: Positive Psychodrama: Seeking the Genius Within

Merle Cantor Goldberg, LCSW-C, CGP

 

Workshop 45: Cancelled

 

Workshop 46: LivingDance™: Connection, Not Perfection

Danielle Fraenkel, PhD, BC-DMT, NCC, LCAT, LMHC, CGP

 

Workshop 47: Living in Harmony: How Communal Singing leads to Feeling Grounded and On Common Ground

Geraldine Alpert, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 48: A Stage II Trauma Group Working with Reenactments

Catherine Classen, PhD

Felisa Shizgal, MEd

 

Workshop 49: Weight Matters: Cutting Edge Group Approaches to Dysregulated Eating

Fran Weiss, LCSW-R, BCD, DCSW, DPNAP, CGP

 

Workshop 50: Men and Women: Meeting on Common Ground

Hylene Dublin, MSW, LCSW, CGP, LFAGPA

Paul Kaye, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 51: Adolescent Group Psychotherapy in the Age of Facebook- Clinical Dilemmas and Possibilities

Thomas Hurster, MSS, CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Friday, March 9

Lunch-Time Open Session
12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
 

The Large Group

Thor-Kristian Island, MD

Siri Johns, OT

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:15-8:15 am) and Saturday (1:30-4:00 pm)

 

 

Friday, March 9

Afternoon Open Sessions
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

Session 211-5: The Psychodynamic Group Therapist as Social Scientist

Les Greene, PhD, CGP, LFAGPA

 

Session 212-5: The Four Levels Game: A New Approach for Facilitating Therapeutic Change in Groups

Refaat Mahfouz Mahmoud, MD, MSc

Mohamed Taha, MD

 

Session 213-5: Easing the Pain: Group Therapy for Young Adults with Chronic Health Conditions

Wendy Freedman, PhD

Natalie Ishak, LMSW

 

 

Friday, March 9

Afternoon Open Sessions
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.

 

Session 214-5: Groups in College Counseling Centers: Facilitating Innovative Professional Development Trainings

Leann Jill Terry, PhD, Chair

Eri Suzuki Bentley, PhD, CGP

Jennie Sharf, PhD

Huan Jacqueline Ye, PhD

 

Session 215-5: Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Youth: Finding Common Ground and Building a Survivor Identity through Groups

Pamela Guthrie, PsyD, Chair

Julie Lawrence, LCSW

Rachel Lloyd, MA

 

Session 216-5: To Change and Not To Change: Using Functional Subgrouping to Contribute to the Organizational Development of AGPA

Robert Hsiung, MD, Chair

Howard Kibel, MD, CGP, DLFAGPA

Richard O'Neill, PhD, CGP

Darryl Pure, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 


 Friday, March 9
Afternoon Workshops
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 52-5: Labels in Group Therapy: Information, Identity, Unconscious Bias?

Jennifer McLain, MD

 

Workshop 53-5: The Quicksand Amidst the Common Ground: Working with the Outsider in Group

Andrew Eig, PhD, ABPP

 

Workshop 54-5: The Mourning After, the Death of a Group Member

Alice Byrne, MSW, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 55-5: For the Love of Group: Developing Group Therapy Knowledge and Skills in Psychology Training Programs

Steven Hines, PsyD

Tevya Zukor, PhD, CGP

 

Workshop 56-5: Inviting the Unconscious: Using the Arts in Group Supervision

Karen Estrella, PhD

Denise Malis, MFA, MA, LMHC, ATR

 

Workshop 57-5: Enchantment Groups: Fairy Tales and Dreams

Bette Kiernan, MA, MFT

 

Workshop 58-5: Using the Group in Cognitive Group Therapy

Robert Schachter, EdD

 

Workshop 59-5: Integrating Projections Using Encounter: A Gestalt Approach

Bruce Aaron, MSW, LCSW

 

Workshop 60-5: Dual Attention: The Art of Brining Mindfulness into Group Psychotherapy

Margo Steinfeld, LCSW, MA, CGP

 

Workshop 61-5: Dialectical Behavior Therapy and DBT-Informed Group Facilitation for People with Co-Occurring Disorders (Mental Health and Substance Misuse Issues)

Claudia Arlo, LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 62-5: Duo Therapy: “Doing Group” with Two People

Steven Wruble, MD

 

Workshop 63-5:  Group Psychotherapy for Complex Trauma – An Interactive Model of Understanding and Treating Survivors of Domestic Violence

Bente Lømo

Mette Jensen Skålholt

 

Workshop 64-5: Experiencing, Understanding, and Making Use of Deep Feelings: The Lessons of Youth in Group Therapy

Peter Burchard, PhD, MSW

 

Workshop 65-5: Social Interaction Groups for Children, Preadolescents, and Adolescents: What Does Sex Have to do With It?

Andrea Grunblatt, PhD, CGP

 


 Friday, March 9
Afternoon Workshops
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.

 

Workshop 66-5: Not Again!! The Compulsion to Repeat Bad Relationships and How Group Therapy Can Help

Mary Nicholas, LCSW, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 67-5: Dealing with Character and Irrepressible Pain in Group Treatments

James Tyler Carpenter, PhD, ABPP, FAACP

 

Workshop 68-5:  Grieving Loss and Death through Group Relationships and Metaphor

Donna DiCello, PsyD

Lorraine Mangione, PhD

 

Workshop 69-5: Teaching about Trauma: The Classroom Group Context as a Frame for Safe, Reflective Learning 

Madelyn Miller, LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 70-5:  Multi-Culturalism, Cross-Culturalism, and Multi-Nationalism

Sarit Shay, MSW

Orit Nuttman Shwartz, PhD

 

Workshop 71-5: Battling Therapist Burnout-An Art Therapy Experience

Renee Van Der Vennet, PhD, LPC, ATRBC, LMHC, CGP

 

Workshop 72-5: Treating the Psychotic Element in Everyday Group Thinking

Clive Hazell, PhD

Diana Semmelhack, PsyD

 

Workshop 73-5: Family Genograms: Sharing Common Ground

Frédéric La Belle, MFA, MFT, CGP

 

Workshop 74-5:  IMAGO: Restoring Ruptures in Connection

Carol Kramer, MSW, CSW

 

Workshop 75-5:  Practicing Cultural Awareness: “Honor” in Group Trauma Therapy with Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Turkey

Aslihan Sayin, MD

Leyla Welkin, PhD, CGP

 

Workshop 76-5: Developing a Social Skills Training Group for Children and their Parents

Cathi Cohen, LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 77-5:  Social Skills Groups for Kids (Children and Adolescents) on the Spectrum

Jo Hariton, PhD, CGP

Andrew Robins, PhD

 

Workshop 78-5:  Psychoeducational Groups in a Hospice Bereavement Program

Jeffrey Barg, MSS

Terence Carroll, MSS, CGP

Maureen Erdlen, MSS, MLSP

 

 

Friday, March 9

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Dance Party

9:00 P.M.

 

 

Thursday, March 8:

Saturday, March 10: