Conference Session Evaluation 2021

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Course Code: 1a

Presenters:

1. Chap Attwell, MD, MPH

2. Liz Stewart, APSI

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Demonstrate the utility of working with the superficial layer of the group connective tissue via the creation of a mutually agreed-upon framework for the workshop.
2. Identify the core ingredients of working with body language in the group setting.
3. Define the two working models--the neurobiology of body language and the anatomy of connective tissue--which we propose integrating in direct application to decoding body language in group work.
4. Identify body language as observable into three distinct observable layers: voice tone and pitch; gestures/postures; and collective body movements amongst multiple members.
5. Integrate the observable group as a whole phenomena with shared language--naming, translating, distinguishing, explaining, and clarifying-- to explore deeper if seemingly hidden/unconscious communications amidst our group process.
6. Expand the didactic model of our group process to create a model of the mind and its take-away applications for our participants’ personal and professional lives.

Course Code: 2a

Presenter: George Bermudez, PhD, PsyD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe two differences between the conventional approach to working with dreams and the social dreaming (SDM) paradigm.
2. Define two concepts out of the following related to social dreaming: group self or social state dream, forward edge of social dream, self-object function of communal home and moral witnessing function of social dreams.
3. Identify two resistances related to social linking and moral witnessing of “culturally imposed trauma”.
4. Identify two essential techniques for leadership/facilitation of a social dreaming matrix.
5. Describe the value of social dreaming in accessing the social unconscious for optimal citizenship and democracy

Course Code: 3a

Presenters:

Kouang Chan, MS, JD
Duke Fisher, MA
Nina Harris, BA, CA
Deborah Sharp, LCSW-S, CGP
Brelynn Thomas, MSSW
Amy Wolfgang, MA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify one way that Restorative Practices can be used within organizations.
2. Identify two ways that Restorative Practice can enhance my group work.
3. Identify three techniques used within the Restorative Justice Circle that supported differences.
4. Identify two similarities and two differences between a Restorative Justice Circle and a Psychotherapy Group.
5. Identify two similarities and two differences between a Restorative Justice Circle and a 12 step Group.
6. Identify the ways that a talking piece is similar to sand tray figures.
7. Identify the ways that a talking piece can enhance communication in the circle.

Course Code: 4a

Presenters:

Darryl Pure, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
Lisa Stefanac, MBA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify group approaches relevant to business vs. psychotherapy.
2. Compare interpersonal dynamics with intrapersonal dynamics.
3. Experience exercises that aid interpersonal dynamics for business and organizational leadership.
4. Identify the value of data generating exercises for the work of the group.

Course Code: 5-5

Presenters:

Judith Coche, PhD, ABPP, CGP, LFAGPA
Greg Crosby, MA, LPC, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Apply theories of multiple intelligence and Yalom's Therapeutic Factors in Group Psychotherapy to specific cultures within our globe.
2. Conduct teaching key skills to citizens of different cultures through adaptation of key ideas
3. Revise teaching and clinical content to adapt to each culture to maximize effectiveness of universal group therapy principles described by Yalom, Coche, and Crosby in academic writings.

Course Code: 6-5

Presenters:

1. Bojun Hu, PhD

2. Lizhu Zhao, MA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the ways in which the participant utilizes or avoids the support of other members’ words and bodies for support and connection.
2. Describe the congruence/discordance in one’s verbal communication and bodily posture/emotional expression/sound expression.
3. Experiment and practice grounded ways of bodily expression/movement and verbal expression.
4. Identify cultural variations in the use of one’s body and one’s words.

Course Code: 8

Presenters:

Karsten Kueppenbender, MD, CGP
Mendel Horowitz, MS, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Detect race/ethnic/cultural dialogues in group psychotherapy.
2. Describe race/ethnic/cultural identity as a key element in group psychotherapy.
3. Demonstrate dealing with and facilitating emotionally charged difficult race/ethnic/cultural dialogues in group psychotherapy.
4. Evaluate and discuss cultural ethical boundaries in group therapy race dialogues.
5. Describe group psychotherapists as role models.

Course Code: 9

Presenter: Dominick Grundy, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Challenge the common assumption that exploring erotic feelings belongs in individual psychotherapy, not in group.
2. Discriminate behavior in group interaction which may be motivated either by underlying erotic feelings or by undue anxiety about erotic arousal.
3. As group leader, recognize the power of underlying erotic feelings and guide group process so as not to disregard them or retraumatize members with history of sexual abuse.

Course Code: 10

Presenters:

Shemika Brooks, PsyD, CGP
Nathasha Hahn, PhD
Shelby Weltz, PsyD

Course Objectives:

1. Explain the actual or potential negative impact of microaggressions.
2. List five examples of microaggressions (statements, actions, and/or inactions) in the context of group counseling spaces.
3. Identify the role that increased awareness plays in reducing microaggressive behavior.
4. Describe the ways in which the impact of microaggressions, rather than the intent, result in interpersonal harm.
5. Discuss the ways in which the intersection of member identity and group composition impact the felt experience of microaggressions.

Course Code: 11

Presenter: Barney Straus, MSW, MA, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Explain how to effectively incorporate novel activities into process-oriented groups.
2. Describe how to use metaphoric transfer of learning to heighten therapeutic impact of the group.
3. Select specific activities based on the stage of development and primary purpose of a particular group.

Course Code: 12

Presenters:

1. Lynn Lawrence, MS, MSW

2. Lynne Bamat Mijangos, RN, MSW, MFA, MS

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify at least one group in their practice in which close reading (or “looking”) and reflective writing might be incorporated to aid in group process.
2. Describe how multiple points of view in a text contributes to the development of intersubjectivity.
3. Choose a text and practice crafting a prompt for a new or ongoing group.
4. Reflect on “discoveries” made in today’s writing.

Course Code: 13

Presenters:

1. Bill Roller, MA

2. Xu Yong, MD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Apply with confidence and assertiveness the group dynamics necessary to create a Strategic Subgroup that supports conscientious behavior.
2. Discriminate between sociocentric and egocentric leadership on the part of the Task Leader.
3. Re-direct the scapegoating process and actively resist aggressive scapegoating both inside and outside the group boundary.
4. Differentiate between the necessity for the Task Leader to stop aggressive scapegoating and the requirement to help integrate the Scapegoat Leader into the group as a whole.
5. Identify the group norms that facilitate collaborative leadership in the completion of a project of ethical significance.
6. Enumerate the specific norms that drive group communication forward and those forces that restrain group communication.

Course Code: 14

Presenter: Christopher Wagner, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a working knowledge of MI concepts and practices.
2. Describe key issues in adapting MI to group therapy.
3. Define the four phases of MI groups.
4. Summarize the various practice exercises used in MI groups.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the various key ways of shaping group conversations toward change.

Course Code: 15

Presenters:

Ken Schwartz, MD, FRCPC
Shayne Vitemb, MA, LMFT, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify importance of both hope and action in coping with health issues.
2. Appraise one’s own personal feelings with respect to issues of aging and medical disability and its impact on working with this population.
3. Identify three practices/techniques that facilitate the psychological healing process in older adults with medical problems.
4. Apply a series of questions emphasizing the value of understanding both ourselves and clients as it relates to our clinical work with a challenging population of older adults.
5. Discuss the challenges associated with both consideration of retirement and retirement itself.

Course Code: 16

Presenters:

Laura Kasper, PhD, CGP
Meena Denduluri, MD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the design of a currently practiced model of brief interpersonal groups.
2. Describe one example of evidence supporting interpersonal groups and time limited therapies.
3. Explain how to use the IIP-32 and OQ-45 in setting goals for a short-term interpersonal group.
4. Explain how a group contract can be used in facilitation of an interpersonal group.
5. Identify three characteristics of patients who would be appropriate for referral to a time-limited group.

Course Code: 17

Presenters:

Natalie Haziza, MA, M.Phil
Ari Pehkonen, LCSW

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe unique considerations and challenges clinicians might face when starting a gender identity group for adults.
2. Describe how groups can be utilized to aid in the exploration of gender identity in adulthood.
3. Name unmet needs of gender-diverse adults in outpatient mental health clinics.
4. Describe ways to expand group offerings for gender-diverse populations to include gender identity groups for middle adulthood.
5. Apply ideas presented in the workshop to meet needs of diverse populations.

Course Code: 18-5

Presenter: Russell Hopfenberg, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe response generalization (induction) and its relevance to group psychotherapy.
2. Summarize “cultural behavior” and its relevance to resistance in group psychotherapy.
3. Explain the connection between Pavlovian conditioning and emotional difficulties as well as their amelioration in psychodynamic group psychotherapy.

Course Code: 19-5

Presenters:

Geoffrey Kane, MD, MPH
Suzanne Brennan Nathan, PsyD, LICSW, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. List six words (categories, labels) related to substance use disorders that can fuel bias and therefore are best avoided by professionals and the public.
2. Compare the impact on treatment outcomes of addiction treatment programs that specify client behavior during and after treatment (including behavior in groups) with those of programs that individualize their expectations.
3. Describe two methods for avoiding bias and maintaining person-centeredness in groups.
4. Identify two practices that can prepare you to be person-centered when interacting with clients.

Course Code: 20-5

Presenters:

1. Heather Holtman, EdD

2. Serena Tchania, MA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. State how a Positive Psychotherapy support group for depression reduces college student’s fear of stigma.
2. Describe concepts of positive psychology used to structure the Depression Support Group.
3. Identify activities used to create a Positive Psychotherapy Depression Support Group.

Course Code: 21

Presenter: Benjamin White, LCSW, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify unconscious processes that are relevant to human-caused climate change.
2. Describe intersections between climate change and other social justice issues.
3. Describe their own emotional contribution to the issue of climate change.
4. Differentiate between various modes of climate engagement and the factors involved in their relative efficacy.
5. Summarize the relevance of psychological and emotional processes to climate change.
6. Identify ways to improve the efficacy of climate engagement through the use of group processes.

Course Code: 22

Presenter: Marti Kranzberg, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify & describe cultural identities.
2. Describe experience of listening fully to others' narratives.
3. Identify how identities impact work as group therapists.

Course Code: 23

Presenter: Lorraine Wodiska, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Offer a general definition of nonverbal communication.
2. List four types of body language seen in an online group.
3. Name what is missing in nonverbal communication when conducting online group psychotherapy.
4. Describe how animals assist us in understanding nonverbal communication.
5. Educate group members about how to use nonverbal communication when conducting online group therapy.

Course Code: 24

Presenter:

1. Mark Beecher, PhD, ABPP, CGP

2. Gary Burlingame, PhD, CGP, DFAGPA

3. Michael Buxton, PhD

4. Hiu Wai Yoko Caldwell, PhD

5. Kara Cattani, PhD

6. Derek Griner, PhD, ABPP, CGP

7. Kristina Hansen, PhD, CGP

8. Klint Hobbs, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the three flows of compassion (toward self, toward others, from others).
2. Explain the concept of the tricky brain and the three emotion systems (drive, threat, soothing).
3. Identify ways to regulate body systems using soothing rhythm breathing, imagery, and other mindfulness activities.
4. Practice implementing compassion building exercises commonly used in a CFT group.

Course Code: 25

Presenter: Nina Brown, EdD, LPC, NCC, DLFAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define and describe psychoeducational groups and how these differ from clinical groups.
2. List the major components for planning a psychoeducational group.
3. Identify major concerns and problems encountered by leaders of psychoeducational groups.

Course Code: 26

Presenters:

Heather Frank, PsyD, CGP
James O’Hern, LCSW, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define induced feelings.
2. Identify and utilize the observing ego to distinguish between historical and present feelings.
3. Formulate interventions based on the leaders understanding of induced feelings.
4. Differentiate objective from subjective feelings.
5. Identify emotions that participants may unconsciously discourage in their groups.

Course Code: 27

Presenter: Nick Kanas, MD, CGP-R, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Discuss the effectiveness of group therapy for patients with psychosis.
2. Describe clinical strategies for leading groups for patients with psychosis.
3. Explain how to apply groups for patients with psychosis in the learner's own treatment setting.

Course Code: 28

Presenter: Andrew Susskind, LCSW, SEP, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. List the 5 stages of loss related to out-of-control compulsive or addictive behavior.
2. Describe 3 strategies to practice gratitude.
3. Explain the therapeutic benefits of grief recovery as it relates to long-term addiction recovery.

Course Code: 29

Presenters:

1. Wendy Freedman, PhD, CGP

2. Leslie Klein, PhD

3. Katheryne Kopp Miller, PsyD, HSPP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Explain how to conceptualize disability and health status as multicultural experiences.
2. List common psychological struggles of individuals with disabilities or health conditions.
3. Identify common microaggressions directed toward people with disabilities and health conditions.
4. Name culturally-affirmative accommodations to make when working with clients with disabilities and health conditions.
5. Describe how to develop effective protocols for running therapy groups for clients with disabilities and health conditions.

Course Code: 30

Presenter: Fran Weiss, LCSW-R, BCD, DCSW, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify current thinking in the weight regulation field.
2. Describe the metaphor of food through the lens of attachment
3. Explain the scientific question and understanding of the term "food addiction" a la the Yale study vs. the popular belief of "food addiction"
4. Apply somatic work with experiential skills to your group repertoire
5. Create group strategies for affect regulation and working the "window of tolerance"

Course Code: 31a

Presenters:

Robin Dean, PsyD
Kathleen Isaac, PhD
Colette McLean, MSW, LCSW
Archandrea Owens, PhD
Rachelle Rene, PhD, BCB, HSMI

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Differentiate racial identity factors relevant to clients of color in each of four age groups (i.e. childhood, adolescence, college age, and adulthood).
2. Describe ways to engage in ongoing awareness of one's own racial identity location.
3. Identify ways in which transference and counter-transference issues arise as racial dynamics are explored in groups led by therapist of color.
4. Describe ways to engage in ongoing awareness of the racial identity location of group members.
5. Articulate the ways the experience of invisibility may impact leading groups with people of color.
6. Identify three interventions that can be utilized to prevent racial trauma within the group therapy space.

Course Code: 32a

Presenters:

Joan-Dianne Smith, MSW, RSW, FCGPA
Allan Sheps, MSW, RSW, CGP, FCGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the impact of the pandemic on close personal relationships.
2. Identify personal countertransference themes intensified by the pandemic experience, and explain how those responses might inhibit group intimacy.
3. List three examples of personal barriers that members might use to sabotage intimacy in groups
4. Identify the dynamics of difference and polarization and describe the necessary leadership functions to enable the group to achieve mutuality and become a mature working group.
5. Describe how group member fears can hold them back from reaching for connection in spite of their stated desire to do so.

Course Code: 33a

Chairs:

Suma Jacob, MD, PhD
Jeffrey Roth, MD, CGP, FAGPA
Janice Wagner, MSW, LICSW

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify splitting in the large study group.
2. Identify scapegoating in the large study group.
3. Identify projective identification in the large study group.
4. Identify basic assumption dependence in the large study group.
5. Identify basic assumption fight/flight in the large study group.
6. Identify basic assumption pairing in the large study group.
7. Identify basic assumption me-ness in the large study group.
8. Identify basic assumption we-ness in the large study group.
9. Describe the use of splitting in the generation of bias and marginalization.
10. Describe the use of scapegoating in the generation of bias and marginalization.
11. Describe the use of projective identification in the generation of bias and marginalization.
12. Describe the use of basic assumption dependence in the generation of bias and marginalization.
13. Describe the use of basic assumption fight/flight in the generation of bias and marginalization.
14. Describe the use of basic assumption pairing in the generation of bias and marginalization.
15. Describe the use of basic assumption me-ness in the generation of bias and marginalization.
16. Describe the use of basic assumption we-ness in the generation of bias and marginalization.

Course Code: 34a

Presenters:

Alice Brown, PsyD, CGP
Chris Dolin, LCSW

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Explain the use of the contract in the formation and ongoing process of the group.
2. Identify countertransference and use it to inform interventions.
3. Detect the many guises aggression takes in group and develop techniques to direct the aggression to the group's benefit.
4. Discuss the importance of attention to diversity in forming group interventions.
5. Describe the meaning and use of the resistance as a necessary defense mechanism.
6. Utilize the skills of bridging, working with immediacy and fostering intimacy into group practice.

Course Code: 35-5

Presenters:

1. David Songco, PsyD, CGP

2. Lindsey Randol, PsyD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. List effective strategies and technological nuances for teaching group psychotherapy online.
2. Describe parallels and differences between in-person experiential group training and virtual experiential training.
3. Analyze multicultural and diversity factors that arise in the teaching of group psychotherapy online.
4. Describe a [de]colonized approach to the online teaching of group psychotherapy.

Course Code: 36-5

Presenter: Elisabet Wollsén, MSc, Psych

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Learn how to use creative techniques in own group work and supervision.
2. Become aware of the normative power in traditional language and settings.
3. Utilize own creativity through interaction in the workshop.
4. Discover your own potential artist.

Course Code: 37

Presenter: Angelo Ciliberti, PsyD, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify aliveness as a relational drive that is uncovered rather than artificially engineered.
2. Identify some of the common resistances to aliveness that emerge in group process.
3. Discuss different forms of resistance relative to online vs. in-person groups
4. Name common countertransference resistances that inhibit aliveness in groups.
5. Distinguish between resistances originating in fear versus repressed anger and the implications of this distinction in crafting effective interventions.
6. Formulate interventions for proactively responding to stagnation rather than defensively fleeing from it.

Course Code: 38

Presenter: Anna Graybeal, PhD, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define the concept of resistance from a modern analytic perspective.
2. Describe the basic science of climate change, including impacts to humans.
3. Identify and analyze resistance to thoughts and feelings about climate change.
4. Predict how working with emotional resistance may help us move our communities towards addressing climate change.

Course Code: 39

Presenter: Susan Beren, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define the SCT term “survival role.”
2. Define the relationship between anxiety and survival roles.
3. Identify the costs and benefits to your primary survival role during Covid-19.
4. Identify a method for reducing anxiety.

Course Code: 40

Presenter: Charlene Pratt, LCPC, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify sources of clinical errors, including transference reactions and enactments.
2. Explore their relationship with making mistakes, highlighting resistance and self-criticism.
3. Distinguish when humor is helpful in encouraging dialog.
4. Use redirection toward group leader to manage conflict and aggression.
5. Contrast methods for addressing errors and repairing ruptures.
6. Utilize these cycles of rupture and repair to strengthen the therapeutic alliance.

Course Code: 41

Presenter: Martyn Whittingham, PhD, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Discuss the role of the interpersonal circumplex in Focused Brief Group Therapy (FBGT).
2. Explain the role of screening and pre-group preparation in formation of the working alliance.
3. Evaluate which interpersonal styles are predictive of self-sabotage and premature dropout from group.
4. Evaluate how interpersonal styles create a functional or dysfunctional group dynamic.
5. Describe the role of inoculation in preventing premature termination.

Course Code: 42

Presenters:

1. Hanieh Abeditehrani, PhD

2. Thomas Treadwell, EdD, CGP, TEP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe how Blended Experiential model can be used to create a safe and secure environment where individuals can share their dilemma(s) without restraint.
2. Complete & interpret the Automatic Thought Record (ATR).
3. Identify automatic thoughts & focus on 'hot thoughts'. Discuss the meaning of automatic thoughts as they relate to core-beliefs and/or schemas.
4. Explain and implement the major psycho-dramatic techniques; role-playing, interview in role reversal, protagonist, auxiliary ego, doubling, concretizing and the empty chair techniques.
5. Identify Yalom’s primary four therapeutic factors of group therapy.

Course Code: 43

Presenters:

1. Carolyn Waterfall, MS, LPC, CGP

2. Rachel Stephens, PsyD, LCP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the similarities and differences between group therapy and consulting with individuals, groups, and organizations.
2. Apply specific knowledge and techniques to adapt their clinical skills to consult with individuals, groups and organizations.
3. Discuss how interpersonal neurobiology sets the stage for high performing teams.
4. Identify how self-awareness and effective self-regulation builds trust in organizations.
5. Demonstrate and describe a variety of self-regulations skills.
6. Discuss how self-regulation supports vulnerability and courage - two qualities critical to trust-building in organizations.
7. Implement communication skill building techniques in groups.
8. Apply these lessons to a situation in your organization (family, relationship) to enhance team performance.

Course Code: 44

Presenter: Lorraine Mangione, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. State several important themes seen in our current multicultural world in the realms of spirituality, religion, and finding meaning.
2. Describe at least two frameworks for learning about and incorporating spirituality and religion in one's thinking about oneself as a therapist and in one’s clinical work.
3. Identify areas of discomfort or challenge around spirituality, religion, and existential issues.
4. Identify approaches to working with counter transference or implicit bias issues in the realm of group therapy practice.

Course Code: 45

Presenters:

1. Kimberly Burdine, PhD

2. Analesa Clarke, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify three culturally distinct mental health concerns experienced by Black womxn in the US.
2. State how the "invincible Black women" syndrome and "strong Black woman" schema may impact mental health and help seeking behaviors of black womxn.
3. Differentiate the application of interpersonal process and soft skills based group interventions for Black womxn.
4. Describe the impact of cultural identity based group therapy for Black womxn.
5. Discuss cultural considerations and implications for Black women’s support groups.

Course Code: 46-5

Presenter: Jeff Grossman, LPC-MHSP, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Name two strategies to utilize online marketing.
2. Differentiate the advantages and disadvantages of solo vs. co-facilitating a therapy group.
3. Differentiate the advantages and disadvantages of self vs. other referrals to group.
4. Identify the three common emotions that arise when attempting to start a new therapy group.

Course Code: 47-5

Presenter: Ozge Kantas, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define the basic psychological needs universal to human experience for effective functioning.
2. Identifying and analyzing person or group specific ways of satisfying those needs.
3. Comparing the outcomes of the leader’s motivational styles as supportive and frustrative during change management.
4. Work through the effectiveness of motivational and goal quality by action methods.
5. Design creative intervention settings with sociometry and psychodrama techniques to match therapy, training, and consultancy goals.

Course Code: 49

Presenters:

Simon Bresler, LCSW, CGP
Kerin Nadler, MS, LCAT, BC-DMT, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Explore who/what is the “Other,” and where it may be located.
2. Investigate underlying dynamics that motivate pathological “Othering.”
3. Elucidate underlying dynamics that motivate healthy “Othering.”
4. Identify signs that “Othering” is occurring.
5. Establish 6 leadership skills to address “Othering.”

Course Code: 50

Presenter: Carlos Canales, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA

Learning Objectives:

Attendee will be able to:

1. Increase their familiarity with an attachment-focused practice and somatic experiencing.
2. Experience and articulate moments of physiological change (neuroception) around states of intrapsychic or interpersonal safety and danger.
3. Assess aliveness, connection, disconnection, and deadness in communication.
4. Describe the mechanisms by which secure bonds facilitate emotional self-regulation and dialogue.
5. Name two interventions for engaging others using physiological awareness.

Course Code: 51

Presenter: Robert Pepper, LCSW, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Participants will be able to identify gaslighting when it occurs in group therapy.
2. Identify boundary crossings from boundary violations.
3. Identify factors that ameliorate gaslighting.

Course Code: 52

Presenters:

1. Brett Kociol, PsyD

2. Yair Kramer, PsyD

3. Terri Lipkin, PsyD

4. Benjamin Mueller, PsyD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe how their personal sibling dynamics have impacted their sense of self and their choice of roles as members of groups.
2. Name how their personal sibling dynamics have impacted their work as individual and/or group clinicians.
3. Classify different types of sibling dynamics through participation in the here-and-now of the experiential process group.
4. Describe applications of family systems theory and birth order to interpersonal relationship templates and the development of social roles.
5. Identify the intersection of their own social identities and the role that this played in their sibling relationships.

Course Code: 53

Presenters:

1. Katherine Margo, MD

2. Jeffrey Sternlieb, PhD

3. Kathy Ulman, PhD, CGP, DFAGPA

4. Alan Witkower, EdD, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the benefits of Balint group participation for reducing provider burnout and compassion fatigue.
2. Illustrate the distinct elements/stages of a Balint group process.
3. Distinguish the differences between group psychotherapy and Balint group work.
4. Describe how to focus the groups attention on the provider's dilemma, the patient's dilemma, and the provider-patient relationship.

Course Code: 54

Presenters:

Dayne Narretta, LCSW, BCD, CGP, FAGPA
Deborah Woolf, MS, MSS, LCSW

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe how functional subgrouping helps systems to integrate, rather than split off differences.
2. Apply two behaviors that support functional subgrouping.
3. Describe how functional subgrouping helps to activate one's observing system.

Course Code: 55

Presenter: Suzanne Cohen, EdD, CGP-R, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define Embodied Attunement: Therapists who are aware of their own body experiences are better able to receive communications by physically resonating with and accurately decoding non-verbal cues and behaviors of others.
2. Identify the five Stages of Development of Embodied Attunement: attending to sensory experiences; witnessing, observing, noticing without judgment or analysis; naming sensory experiences with sensory language; noticing emotions or emotional charge associated with sensory experience; meaning making, understanding and deepening meaning through associations, images, memories, beliefs.
3. Apply Embodied Attunement of Group Therapist in Relationship to groups bringing embodied attunement into relationships, allowing one’s body to resonate with others’ bodies through seeing, sensing, hearing; decoding non-verbal cues and behaviors; discerning those sensory experiences coming from within and those arising from resonating with group member(s) ; implicit relational knowing
4. Identify the role of music in expressive movement: Music awakens emotions and triggers movement of energy in the body; music provides resonance and vibration, rhythm, tones, sound and silence. Music stimulates the nervous system and moves the body. In expressive movement, we allow the body to respond, rather than controlling, manipulating, or thinking about moving. We begin in a state of RAW (relaxed, alert, waiting): relaxed body, alert mind (in the present moment, not in past or future), waiting with open attention. Through music we have the lived experience of our body, mind, and emotions, in relationship to ourselves and others.

Course Code: 56

Presenter: David Flohr, PhD, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify three examples of how the ParentCircle group based approaches can effectively address parental reactivity.
2. Connect one's own experiences, personal and professional, with the concepts and examples discussed.
3. List and describe the key elements of the ParentCircle model.
4. Summarize a demonstrated method for reducing the impact of an individual's core issues on current levels of parental reactivity.

Course Code: 57

Presenter: Brenda Boatswain, PhD, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define the differences between peer group consultation versus peer group supervision.
2. Identify the benefits and challenges of peer consultation groups in the professional development of clinicians of color.
3. Identify ways of fostering cohesion, growth and professional development in the peer consultation group for clinicians of color.

Course Code: 58

Presenter: Joan Coll, MD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Experience the joy (and/or the challenge) of using an unusual working language.
2. Revise preconceptions and prejudices, as well as past and present trauma.
3. Trust the emotions beyond the words. Do words in a different language modify the underlying emotions?
4. Detect the resistances to progressive emotional communication in the here-and-now, regardless of (or because of) the language used.
5. Feel part of a larger community.
6. Distinguish between a language-discordant and language-concordant clinician.
7. Gain thought flexibility and relational competence, and reflect on the difference of doing so in the dominant language vs the marginalized one.
8. Manage integrative complexity. Experience conflict and work it through without acting it out.

Course Code: 59a

Presenter: Marie Sergent, PhD, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define emotional communication and its significance in group psychotherapy.
2. Name the relationship between emotional receptivity, attunement, and the group leader’s voice.
3. Define the role of immediacy in illuminating participants’ histories and resistances.
4. Describe the difference between induced and subjective countertransference.
5. Describe how countertransference feelings are used to resolve resistance.

Course Code: 60a

Presenters:

1. Daniela Recabarren, PhD, MSEd

2. Renita Sengupta, PsyD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify cultural norms embedded in traditional group therapy models.
2. Define concepts of privilege, oppression, white supremacy, cisnormativity, and heteronormativity.
3. Evaluate how culture and systemic factors impact group process and safety.
4. Reflect on own identities and factors that can perpetuate white, cis-hetero norms.
5. Describe group strategies that allow individuals with various cultural identities and backgrounds to use space in equitable ways.
6. Identify ways to include discussion around multicultural identities and relationship dynamics in therapy groups.

Course Code: 61a

Presenters:

1. Sue Barnum, MA, TEP, CGP

2. Shelley Firestone, MD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Review and discuss the scientific basis of psychodrama (attachment theory, mindfulness and interpersonal neurobiology): why psychodrama works.
2. Demonstrate and practice each of the psychodramatic techniques used in process group (doubling, role-taking, role reversal, concretization, and share back).
3. Discuss appropriate use of psychodramatic techniques in process groups, including contra-indications.
4. Utilize a mindfulness exercise to begin process group.
5. Utilize one or more of the psychodramatic techniques into their own process group(s).
6. Discuss the efficacy of the use of psychodramatic techniques in process group.

Course Code: 62a

Presenters:

1. Marcia Nickow, PsyD, CADC, CGP

2. Joe Whitlock, CADC, MISA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe addiction as a dynamic disease with multiple manifestations or expressions, such as substance abuse, eating disorders and process addictions (e.g. gambling, sex and relationships, work, internet, compulsive spending).
2. Define "cultures of resilience" and " cultures of poverty" in the context of addiction and recovery.
3. Describe how race-based trauma, experiences of oppression and exposure to conflict and rage contribute to addictive disorders and high relapse rates.
4. Explain how clinicians' personal and family histories and racial and cultural identity may enhance treatment effectiveness when countertransference reactions are worked through in clinical supervision groups.
5. Cite examples of common themes relevant to the conscious and unconscious transmission of trauma, addiction and internalized racism.

Course Code: 63-5

Presenter: Jill Lewis, MSW, LCSW, CEDS, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify three principles of tax payments.
2. Identify three ways to manage finances in private practice
3. Identify two specific strategies to increase their group therapy fees by a minimum of 10%.
4. Identify two strategies to comfortably discuss finances in the group

Course Code: 64-5

Presenters:

Jacquelin Darby, PsyD, CGP
Tyme Rodriguez, PsyD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the need for BIPOC affinity relational process group on a PWI campus.
2. Balance the need to discuss and process the impact that White oppressive systems can have on the BIPOC community while maintaining a “here-and-now” dynamic within the group.
3. Identify how aspects of safety and conflict differ in a BIPOC group when compared to a non-BIPOC affinity group
4. Identify ways that group leaders can maintain their use of self while not over-identifying with the group members.

Course Code: 65-5

Presenters:

1. Victoria Bacon, EdD, CGP

2. Kristen Anderson, PhD, LCPC

3. Maureen Boiros, MEd, RN

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the clinical application of the LEPG Wellness Model while considering the needs and benefits gained by older adults, women, and veterans.
2. Describe how underserved populations (i.e., veterans and older adults) describe their experiences of social injustice.
3. Identify affirming accommodations to make when working with veterans, older adults and persons with disabilities.

Course Code: 66

Presenter: Ann Steiner, PhD, MFT, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the major differences between the different types of group work.
2. Describe the different roles and tasks undertaken by leaders of different types of groups.
3. List three common countertransference issues, warning signs, use and/or management of the leader's own issues.
4. State the main advantages of written group agreements, guidelines for dealing with difficult conversations, and termination agreements.

Course Code: 67

Presenter: Dave Kaplowitz, LMFT, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify common reasons for countertransference resistance.
2. Name the four core emotions.
3. Explain the difference between emotions inside and those toward others.
4. Describe three ways group leaders can use their emotions in the moment to formulate interventions.

Course Code: 68

Presenter: Michele Bohls, LMFT, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the primitive feelings evoked in the group therapist and group members when the subject of money arises including greed, vulnerability, deprivation, excitement, shame, and envy.
2. Describe techniques to facilitate group members speaking in detail about money and understand some of the resistances group members may be faced with when asked to speak about money.
3. Explore concepts of intersectionality, power, and privilege as they relate to the financial and socioeconomic identities of the both the group therapist and group members, and specifically how these generate different feelings inside and towards each other.
4. Create an environment that allows for the affect around money to be metabolized.
5. Identify some of the ethical issues involved around discussing money in group therapy.

Course Code: 69

Presenter: Kristine Jackson, LCSW, CET, PAT, CEDS

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Conduct sociometric interventions for group connectionAnalyze group cohesion on line.
2. Identify how to use the medium of teleheath to the benefit of therapeutic alliance.
3. List components of the Hollander Curve.
4. Analyze group cohesion on line.

Course Code: 70

Presenters:

1. Karin Bustamante, PsyD, CGP

2. Francis Kaklauskas, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify at least one way in which social identities impact group leaders’ and members’ behavior.
2. Articulate several ways in which the psychoanalytic pluralism and postmodern movement intersect with multicultural counseling theories.
3. Compare and contrast between several contemporary schools of psychodynamic approaches on group leadership and impact on group member experience.

Course Code: 71

Presenters:

1. Valorie George, LCSW, CGP

2. Jennifer Markey, PhD, MEd, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the concept of mentalizing in patient-friendly terms.
2. List and describe two mentalizing activities to use in group settings with a variety of client populations.
3. Explain how utilizing mentalizing exercises/responses can help improve communication and reduce the reliance on unfounded assumptions.
4. Explain the difference between hypermentalizing, mentalizing, and non-mentalizing.

Course Code: 72

Presenters:

Bob Hsiung, MD
Teresa Lee, MD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe three ways affinity groups can help members.
2. Identify three potential pitfalls of affinity groups.
3. Describe the dynamics of anti-Asian American hate and scapegoating in the COVID-19 context.

Course Code: 73

Presenter: Stacy Nakell, LCSW, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), trichotillomania, and excoriation (skin picking) disorder.
2. Identify common triggers and consequences of BFRBs.
3. Articulate the way the modern analytic concept of damage to the psychic skin enhances our understanding of BFRBs.
4. List the three key components of successful BFRB treatment.
5. Describe the three modern analytic group tools that are key to BFRB treatment.

Course Code: 74

Presenters:

Pepijn Steures, MD, CGP
Bram van der Boom, MD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. State the level of evidence there is that online group therapy is effective.
2. State the five basic rules for conducting an online group therapy (best practice).
3. Select patients that are suitable for online group therapy.
4. Identify the principle methods to promote cohesion in online groups and creating the connection between the online therapist and patients.

Course Code: 75-5

Presenter: Claudia Apfelbaum, LCSW

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Educate Psychotherapists about the viability of online groups for helping to build social skills and improve social connectedness.
2. Highlight the value and measurable benefits online groups can have during the COVID-19 health restrictions.
3. Encourage and empower Psychotherapists to add groups for older adults into their therapeutic practice.

Course Code: 76

Presenters:

Jeffrey Mendell, MD, CGP
Marsha Vannicelli, PhD, CGP, LFAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe salient aspects of termination, grieving and loss as it relates to participants own personal experience.
2. Enumerate the kinds of endings that people face and the complicated feelings associated with endings.
3. Describe the work that get done, (as well as resistance) as individuals are faced with the task of saying goodbye.
4. List ways that participants can help their patients more effectively deal with endings and loss and break through defenses.

Course Code: 77

Presenters:

1. Corinne Hannan, PhD, CGP, CEDS

2. Anna Packard, PhD, CGP, CEDS

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the benefits of using experiential group exercises with a process group.
2. Describe group activities that deepen individual emotional experiencing and insight.
3. Demonstrate group activities to enhance group cohesion and connection.
4. Demonstrate how group exercises can increase motivation to change and increase the ability to receive and understand feedback from others in group.
5. Select different experiential exercises to facilitate different stages of group.

Course Code: 78

Presenters:

Mansi Brat, PhD, CGP, UCC
Carrie Brown, PhD
Niki Keating, PhD, CGP
Shenette Scille, PsyD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify three findings from the national group coordinators survey.
2. Apply findings from the group coordinators survey to identify strategies to enhance their respective group therapy program.
3. List strategies for managing the challenges of the group coordinator role as described by the group coordinator panelists.
4. Define empowerment, self-compassion, and self-care within the scope of the group coordinator role to nourish a group therapy program.
5. Learn and practice methods to engage in self-compassion and self-care in the role of group coordinator.

Course Code: 79

Presenters:

1. Vincent Dehili, PhD, CGP

2. Graham Morris, PhD

3. Elisabeth Romines, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define the merits and applications of role-playing games (RPGs) within the therapeutic setting and it's adaptation to collegiate mental health.
2. Learn how to fuse interpersonal process, skill building, and personal exploration within the framework of the RPG.
3. Describe at least three safety tools used to assist in identifying and addressing micro-aggression that may arise in group.
4. Provide a model for implementing a "Dungeons and Dragons"-based therapeutic RPG.
5. Observe and review skills to effectively engage with co-leader dynamics within this unique group therapy modality.
6. Explain the necessary competencies and logistical considerations for implementing a therapeutic RPG.

Course Code: 80

Presenter: Nancy Wesson, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Apply the Group as a Whole approach to increase group cohesiveness as demonstrated by group member statements about belonging and about "the group" itself.
2. Utilize Group as a Whole interventions to resolve clinical issues such as absenteeism, conflict, and monopolizing in a psychotherapy group by setting the norm that all group members participate when clinical issues arise in the group.
3. Compare and contrast the Group as a Whole approach with other types of group therapeutic approaches which emphasize individual behavior and dynamics.

Course Code: 81

Presenters:

Sharon Bolin, LCSW, MSW, BA
Sue Mengden, PhD, CEDS
Hallie Nikotich, BA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify symptoms of body image disturbance in the various Eating Disorder diagnoses.
2. Describe how virtual/telehealth platforms can impact body image, including body image of people with diverse identities.
3. Analyze the impact of telehealth platforms on the intersection of group functioning and body image, including on group therapeutic factors and group norms.
4. Discuss the impact of telehealth platforms on the therapeutic relationship, including ruptures that may occur unique to utilizing a tele-health platform.
5. List techniques used by the group leader to assess and intervene in negative body image behaviors in a telehealth group.

Course Code: 82

Presenters:

Li Brookens, LCSW, CGP
Stef Gentuso, MA, LPCC
Angelynn Hermes, MSW, LCSW, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify their own marginalized and/or privileged identities in connection with their role as group leaders and participants.
2. Experience and compare potential benefits of affinity-based identity groups based on participation in an experiential affinity-based group.
3. Analyze their reactions to group members and leaders associated with LGBTQ+ identity and other social and personal identities present in groups.
4. Contrast options relating to disclosing or not disclosing LGBTQ+ identity to colleagues and clients.
5. Experience and observe group dynamics associated with homogeneous identity-based group formation and process.

Course Code: 83

Presenter: Adam Frankel, PhD, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify three core principles of Integrative Harm-Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP).
2. Identify and utilize three practical skills-based interventions from an IRHP group framework that can be use in a group setting to help individuals identify and move towards positive change goals
3. Identify and contrast two ways in which IHRP is different from AA or abstinent only treatment models.

Course Code: C1

Presenters:

Misha Bogomaz, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
Jennifer Martin, PhD, CGP
Karen Cone-Uemura, PhD, CGP
Annie Weiss, LICSW, CGP, FAGPA
Tevya Zukor, PhD, CGP

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Detect the impact of membership in a group on the understanding of group dynamics.
2. Identify group dynamics, e.g. resistance, scapegoating and sub¬group formation, as they arise.
3. Discuss the creation of norms.
4. Compare the stages of group development.
5. Discuss the role of the leader.
6. Discuss diversity impact on group dynamics and leadership.

Course Code: C2

Presenters:

        1. Seth Aronson, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA
        2. Thomas Hurster, MSS, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA
        3. Andrew Pojman, EdD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. List at least three features of adolescent development related to the self, peer relationships, and emotions.
2. Demonstrate sensitivity to adolescent cultures especially as it relates to the formation and development of group and the group process.
3. Discuss the impact of transference and countertransference on the adolescent group.
4. Identify how diversity colors the life of the adolescent both within and outside of the group.
5. Cite three new intervention techniques.
6. Identify their own personal response to identity, diversity, and culture as manifested within the adolescent group.

Course Code: C3

Presenter: Shelley Firestone (Korshak), MD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe basic psychodrama practice.
2. Distinguish between the use of the therapy session for a report of events vs. creating experiences in the “here and now” of the session.
3. Appreciate the power and effectiveness of psychodrama action concepts and techniques, and explain Interviewing, Soliloquy, Doubling, Role Taking and Role Reversal.
4. Use one selective psychodrama technique as a therapeutic intervention in individual, couple, family or group psychotherapy.
5. Use one psychodrama technique as an intervention for building connection and promoting cohesion in families, couples and groups.

Course Code: C4

Presenter: Greg Crosby, MA, LPC, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe core integrative cognitive-behavioral methods in group therapy.
2. Delineate how to integrate group process skills and stages of development within a CBT group.
3. Discuss understanding of how to integrate interpersonal therapy and interpersonal neurobiology models within a CBT group.
4. Identify key behavioral skills in CBT.
5. Delineate sequential pacing of behavioral skills in CBT.
6. Delineate the key cognitive skills and sequential skill pacing concepts in CBT groups.
7. Discuss steps of maintaining your gains and preventing relapse.

Course Code: 201-5

Presenter: Robin Dean, PsyD

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Identify at least five areas of cultural identity.
2. Demonstrate awareness of the assumptions they make about group members based on cultural stereotypes.
3. Describe benefits and drawbacks of having preconceived notions of group participants.
4. Articulate at least one change that they could make to their group practice to account for the complexity of their clients' cultural identity.

Course Code: 202-5

Presenters:

Nadia Greenspan, LCPC, NCC, CGP
Rosa Lee Emerson, PhD, CGP
Kasra Khorasani, MD, CGP
Thomas Treadwell, EdD, TEP, CGP

Course Objectives:

Attendee will be able to:

1. Describe the therapeutic factors [instillation of hope, secure emotional expression, awareness of relational impact, social learning] active in this group format.
2. List five basic criteria for setting up a Tele-health Covid support group.
3. Discuss the benefits and shortcomings of Covid 19 group format.
4. Develop zoom group rules for engagement.
5. Describe three ways to support front line workers.
6. Identify the group developmental stages [forming, storming, norming & performing] in this group format

Course Code: 203-5

Presenters:

        1. Nathasha Hahn, PhD
        2. Joeleen Cooper-Bhatia, PhD
        3. Niki Keating, PhD, CGP

Course Objectives:

Attendee will be able to:

1. Identify barriers to group therapy services based on the source of resistance of the counseling center system.
2. Determine appropriate interventions based on the group program’s stage of change.
3. List at least three tangible strategies that can be used to advocate for group program needs.
4. Engage in a self-assessment to determine how one’s professional and personal style could serve as an asset or barrier to group program effectiveness.

Course Code: 204-5

Presenters:

Nick Kanas, MD CGP-R, FAGPA
Les Greene, PhD, CGP, DLFAGPA

Course Objectives:

Attendee will be able to:

1. Define the various psychosocial factors affecting isolated and confined individuals working in space and in similar environments on Earth.
2. Compare these factors with similar factors present in therapy groups and in socially isolated people due to COVID-19.
3. Discuss how this knowledge can influence the treatment of patients in group therapy and the coping strategies of socially isolated people due to COVID-19.

Course Code: 205-5

Presenters:

        1. Seamus Bhatt- Mackin, MD, FAPA, CGP
        2. Meenakshi Denduluri, MD
        3. Mariam Rahmani, MD, FAPA, DFAACAP
        4. Joe Wise, MD, CGP
        5. Brian Wu, MD, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. State the history, trends and current status group psychotherapy training in psychiatry residency programs in the United States.
2. Compare different models with different resources allocated for group psychotherapy training in psychiatry residency programs in the US.
3. Identify strengths and weaknesses across the different training models.

Course Code: 206-5

Presenters:

1. Dawn McBride, PhD
2. Alyson Worrall, RPsych

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify successes and challenges in offering online Covid-19 support groups with the overall purpose of helping individuals explore the psychological impact of Covid-19 and widen their coping strategies.
2. Describe several, beneficial, expressive arts activities and how these activities can be adapted to the online format and cater to the group member diversity
3. Encourage group therapists to conduct research to showcase how group therapy can be a powerful and useful intervention, participants shall identity several research strategies to minimize dual roles (ethical dilemmas) when providing therapy and conducting research with the same individual.

Course Code: 301

Joseph Shay, PhD, CGP, LFAGPA
Aaron Black, PhD, CGP, FAGPA
Chera Finnis PsyD, CGP, FAGPA
Molyn Leszcz, MD, FRCPC, CGP, DFAGPA
Oona Metz, LICSW, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Recognize signs of shame and humiliation that may result from such expression of vulnerabilities.
2. Review ways to encourage the open expression of vulnerabilities in group.
3. Identify therapist vulnerabilities to shame and humiliation in oneself.
4. Describe skillful group therapy interventions in the context of group member or group leader experiences of shame or humiliation or the derivatives of these.

Course Code: 302

Presenters:

Kathy Ulman, PhD, CGP, DFAGPA
Aziza Belcher Platt, PhD
Suzanne Phillips, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
Latoyia Piper, LCSW, CGP
Craig Haen, PhD, LCAT, CGP, FAGPA
Siddharth Ashvin Shah, MD, MPH

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Discuss at least three emotional reactions experienced by professionals who contracted COVID-19
2. Discuss at least three emotional reactions experienced by professionals who experience racism in professional and personal settings
3. Discuss three examples of the emotional impact on the mental health of patients living through the pandemic of COVID-19.
4. Discuss three examples of emotional impact on the mental health of patients experiencing and impacted by the pandemic of individual and systemic racism.
5. Discuss at least two reactions experienced by BIPOC in hearing information regarding the disproportionate number so BIPOC affected by COVID-19.
6. Discuss two reactions you had and patients had when working on a virtual platform with patients and/or groups during the pandemic and two reactions to returning to your office.

Course Code: 303

Presenters:

Elliot Zeisel PhD, LCSW, CGP, DFAGPA
John Caffaro, PhD, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Identify core treatment principles and interventions in psychodynamic group process.
2. Compare key elements of the Modern Analytic and Interpersonal/Relational approach to group psychotherapy.
3. Demonstrate the power of the here and now in process groups to catalyze understanding and explore the connections between member to member and member to leader.

Course Code: LG-1

Presenters:

Susan P. Gantt, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Chair
Frances Carter, MSS, LSW
Ray Haddock, MBChB, MMedSc, FRCPsych
Mike Maher, MA
Robi Friedman, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Apply functional subgrouping in a large group context.
2. Identify how functional subgrouping enables groups to develop by integrating differences rather than splitting and polarizing.
3. Describe the similarities and differences between the inner-person where we feel like ourselves, the inter-person where we are related with others toward a common goal, and the whole-system context and its norms.
4. Differentiate between what the large group is open to in each phase and what it is closed to.
5. Discuss how the large group is nested in the context of the AGPA conference which is nested in the context of AGPA and how the large group functions is isomorphic with its larger context both within AGPA and at all system levels.
6. Differentiate between explaining which reiterates the known and exploring which takes us to the unknown and opens to emergence.

Course Code: LG-2

Presenters:

Susan P. Gantt, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA
Frances Carter, MSS, LSW
Ray Haddock, MBChB, MMedSc, FRCPsych
Mike Maher, MA
Robi Friedman, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

Course Code: 304

Presenters:

Kathy Ulman, PhD, CGP, DFAGPA
Aziza Belcher Platt, PhD
Suzanne Phillips, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
Latoyia Piper, LCSW, CGP
Craig Haen, PhD, LCAT, CGP, FAGPA
Siddharth Ashvin Shah, MD, MPH

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Discuss at least three emotional reactions experienced by professionals who contracted COVID-19
2. Discuss at least three emotional reactions experienced by professionals who experience racism in professional and personal settings
3. Discuss three examples of the emotional impact on the mental health of patients living through the pandemic of COVID-19.
4. Discuss three examples of emotional impact on the mental health of patients experiencing and impacted by the pandemic of individual and systemic racism.
5. Discuss at least two reactions experienced by BIPOC in hearing information regarding the disproportionate number so BIPOC affected by COVID-19.
6. Discuss two reactions you had and patients had when working on a virtual platform with patients and/or groups during the pandemic and two reactions to returning to your office.
7. Discuss the meaning and impact of structural racism, intergenerational racism, and institutionalized racism.
8. Discuss two principles for managing discussions around differences of worldview or societal opinions among group members.
9. Discuss how the shared experiences in a year of trauma related to COVID-19, the pandemic of institutionalized racism, battles for racial justice, and societal upheaval have impacted your personal and professional lives.
10. Discuss the recognition of coping with grief in yourself and your patients.
11. Discuss how our organization can provide a safe and nurturing environment following this year of turmoil and change.

Course Code: 305

Presenters:

Haim Weinberg, PhD, CGP, FAGPA
Richard Billow, PhD, ABPP, CGP
Ruthellen Josselson, PhD
Bram van der Boom, MD

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. State the impact of the lack of the body on Internet delivered therapy.
2. Explain the need for specific training for online group therapists.
3. Apply different theoretical models to leading online groups.
4. Compare online and f2f therapy.
5. Identify ways to develop presence online
6. State some research finding about online therapy groups.

Course Code: 306

Presenters:

Francis Kaklauskas, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA
Sophia Aguirre, PhD, CGP, FAGPA
Willard Ashley, DMin, CGP
Reginald Nettles, PhD, CGP
Keith Rand, LMFT, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Define common terms used in multicultural and diversity counseling.
2. Utilize multicultural intervention as presented by the presenters.
3. Compare multicultural and diversity theories to real life experiences from the presenters’ stories.

Course Code: 307

Presenters:

Noelle Lefforge, PhD, MHA, CGP
Nina Brown, Ed.D, LPC, NCC, DLFAGPA
Gary Burlingame, PhD, CGP, FAGPA
Eleanor Counselman, EdD, ABPP, CGP, DLFAGPA
Josh Gross, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
Mikhail (Misha) Bogomaz, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
Rachel Arnold, Student

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe what is required to meet specialty training standards.
2. Explain group psychotherapy specialty training in psychology at the doctoral, internship, and postdoctoral levels.
3. Summarize the benefits of providing group psychotherapy specialty training.
4. Demonstrate correct understanding of common misconceptions related to group psychotherapy as a specialty.

Course Code: 308

Presenters:

Pepijn Steures, MD, CGP
William de Haas, MSc
Charles Huffstadt, MSc
Rob Koks
Silvia Pol, MA
Niels Tinga, MD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Compare the American and the Dutch Practice Guidelines for group therapy.
2. Predict difficulties in applying a specific therapy method in a group format.
3. Differentiate group dynamics and organizational dynamics in multidisciplinary treatment organisations.
4. Specify the advantages of co-leadership in group treatment.
5. Summarize the main possible negative effects of group treatment.

Course Code: 309

Presenters:

Jeanne Bunker, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA
Jan Morris, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
Alexis Abernethy, PhD, CGP, FAGPA
Nanine Ewing, PhD, BC-DMT, CGP, FAGPA
Nancy Kelly, PhD, MSSW, CGP, FAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Distinguish types of direct and indirect aggressive expression common in women group leaders
2. Identify and describe at least three factors affecting subjective countertransference in women group leaders as they work with aggression in themselves and in their groups.
3. Describe how subjective countertransference can lead to countertransference resistance in women group leaders.
4. Describe the factors that help women become better able to use their aggression effectively in group treatment.

Course Code: 310

Presenters:

        1. Joseph R. Miles, PhD
        2. Zipora Shechtman, PhD, DFAGPA
        3. Rainer Weber, PhD

Title: Online Group Psychotherapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Salvatore Gullo, Ph.D., University of Palermo, Italy; Molyn Leszcz, M.D., University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Gianluca Lo Coco, Ph.D.; University of Palermo, Italy; Cheri Marmarosh, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; Joe Miles, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Zipora Shechtman, Ph.D., University of Haifa, Israel; Giorgio Tasca, Ph.D., University of Ottawa, Canada; Rainer Weber, Ph.D., University of Cologne, Germany

Title: The Relationship of Alliance, Cohesion, and Group Climate with Client Outcome: An Archival Analysis
Author: Zipora Shechtman, PhD, DFAGPA, Professor Emerita, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; & Karin Maixsner, PhD, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Title: A Meta-analysis and Systemic Review of Psychoeducational Groups for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: Research Funded by The Group Foundation (2020 Group Foundation Grant Awardee)
Author: Tammi Dice, Ph.D., Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, & Alexis Wilkerson Ph.D., Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Summarize current research in group psychotherapy.
2. Integrate current group therapy research into clinical practice.
3. Match current research findings to areas of group practice and interest.
4. Discuss important principles related to developing and conducting effective group therapies.

Course Code: 311

Presenters:

Marcia Nickow, PsyD, CADC, CGP
Stephanie Friedman, MD
Rachel Kaplan, MA, MSW
Nelly Katsnelson, MD, CGP, AECOM

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe five examples of institutional cracks, gaps and walls as well as institutional neglect and abuse associated with the coronavirus pandemic.
2. Explain interrelationship (including parallel process) between leadership crisis in American society and organizational cultures,
3. Identify five ways institutional barriers impact workplace physical and psychological safety.
4. Define moral injury and explain its association with the COVID pandemic.
5. List five benefits of virtual and onsite support groups for professionals and health care workers as cultures of resilience.
6. Illuminate the value of virtual support groups related to COVID-19 (including those sponsored by AGPA) for mental health group leaders as cultures of resilience and ongoing antidote to traumatization.
7. Explain use of support groups to target burnout related to the COVID crisis, build cohesion among organizational teams and add meaning to the lives of people on or near the front lines.
8. Identify five ways that mental health practitioners can creatively work inside and also outside institutions to develop and facilitate supportive groups.

Course Code: 312

Presenters:

D. Thomas Stone, Jr, PhD, CGP, FAGPA
Kimi Jackson, Esq
Cecyll Padilla
Ashley Powell, MS, PhD, CGP
Jonathan Ryan, Esq

Course Objectives:

The attendees will be able to:

1. Articulate the dynamic relationship between the complexities of national political aims, local culture, and organizational mission as they relate to immigrants seeking humanitarian relief.
2. Identify effects of vicarious and secondary trauma on front-line staff.
3. Summarize relational patterns among teams and within the organizational system that emerge over time due to trauma exposure.
4. Identify the challenges of facilitating groups in work settings in regard to trust & cohesion.
5. List effective group work measures and guiding principles for responding and providing resources to non-mental health providers.

Course Code: 313

Presenter: J. Scott Rutan, PhD, CGP-R, DFAGPA

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Apply the defense of splitting to societal situations.
2. Gain a knowledge and application of Cognitive Dissonance Theory
3. Gain some applications of Conflict Resolution Theory.

Course Code: 314

Presenters:

        1. Susan P. Gantt, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Chair
        2. Frances Carter, MSS, LSW
        3. Ray Haddock, MBChB, MMedSc, FRCPsych
        4. Mike Maher, MA
        5. Robi Friedman, PhD

Course Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:
1. Apply functional subgrouping in a large group context.
2. Identify how functional subgrouping enables groups to develop by integrating differences rather than splitting and polarizing.
3. Describe the similarities and differences between the inner-person where we feel like ourselves, the inter-person where we are related with others toward a common goal, and the whole-system context and its norms.
4. Differentiate between what the large group is open to in each phase and what it is closed to.
5. Discuss how the large group is nested in the context of the AGPA conference which is nested in the context of AGPA and how the large group functions is isomorphic with its larger context both within AGPA and at all system levels.
6. Differentiate between explaining which reiterates the known and exploring which takes us to the unknown and opens to emergence.