PREVIOUS ACADEMIC MEETINGS
of the
WESTCHESTER GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY SOCIETY

Meetings of professional/clinical interest are scheduled four-five times during each academic year. They are usually held on the second or fourth Friday of the month in September, October, December, January, March, and May/June. (Upcoming Events)

These meetings are held at the Behavior Health Center (formerly the Psychiatric Institute) of Westchester County Medical Center, in Valhalla, New York at Noon. The meetings last for 2 hours. The format is informal. A buffet luncheon of Chinese lunch or wraps is served. There is a brief business meeting followed by a presentation by an invited guest or guests.

Every September (annual meeting): Community Meeting where members informally presented clinical work experiences, writings or ideas in progress. This allows us to give feedback and support and learn more about each other’s work.

The following are presentations from the last two years:

January 27, 2012 - "Bullying: Using Group Treatment to Induce Awareness and Prevention" presented by Ilana D. Rosenberg, PhD

Friday, December 9, 2011 - "Ten Unique Properties of Group Psychotherapy:
Implications & Approaches to Intervention" presented by Kenneth M. Pollock, PhD, CGP & Joan Koenig, NP, CGP

Friday, October 28th, 2011 - "The Effect of Large Group Processes on Political Positions" presented by Howard D. Kibel, M.D., CGP, DLFAGPA

Friday, September 23, 2011 - "Creativity and Spontaneity: Infusing the Group Therapy Process" presented by Heidi Landis, RDT/BCT, LCAT, PAT, CGP

Friday, May 13, 2011 - Group Art Therapy: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Group Interaction presented by Mia de Bethune, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT

Friday, April 8, 2011 - "An Intersubjective Approach to Analytic Group Psychotherapy" presented by Fred Wright, PhD

Friday, January 28, 2011 - "Movement Improvisation in and as Group Therapy", Joan Wittig BC-DMT, LCAT

Friday, December 10, 2010 - "Psychotherapist Development: A Five-Phase Model" presented by Harold Bernard, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA

Friday, October 22, 2010 - "Money Matters in Group Psychotherapy", by Judith Schweiger Levy, PhD

September 24, 2010: "Getting the Most Out of Networking", Alan L. Frankel, LCSW See the presentation in PDF

May 14, 2010: "Somantic Mutuality in Groups", Terry Nathanson, LCSW-R LMT

March 12, 2010: "Leadership in Racially and Culturally Mixed Groups", Mary B. McRae, EdD, Kelley Hershman, MA, Autumn Knight, BA

January 22, 2010: "Throw Away the Book": Writing and Anxiety", Dominick Grundy, PhD, CGP

December 4, 2009: "Exploring Religion and Spirituality in Group Work: The Last Taboo?", Nancy Kehoe, RSCJ, PhD

October 23, 2009: "Activating Group Process: The Empty Chair in Psychotherapy & Psychoeducation Groups", Rebecca Walters, M.S., LMHC, LCAT, TEP

 


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Additional presenters have included: Janet Baumann, MSW; Richard Beck, RCSW; Susan Bello, PhD, ATR; Shoshana Ben-Noam, PsyD,CGP; Bruce Bernstein, PhD; Martha Broderick, MSW; James Cosse, PhD; Michael Crocker, MA, LCSW; Carol Dallinga, CSW; Ben Dattner, PhD; Patty Donovan-Duff, RN, BFN, CT; Sheila Ehrlich, PhD.; Sharon Farber, PhD.; Dr. Christopher Farmer, MD; Diane C. Feirman, CAE; Marcia Geller, Ph.D.;  Craig Haen, MA, RDT; Dr. Mike Harris; David Janeway, DO; Gloria Kahn, EdD; Nancy Kehoe, RSCJ, PhD; Karl Kessle, MD; Howard Kibel, MD; Jeffrey Kleinberg, PhD.; Marilyn Kotcher, CSW, Paul Kymissis, MD; Avril Lindsay, LCSW; Ellen Litman, PhD.; Michelle Maidenberg, Ph.D., MPH, LCSW-R, CGP; Anne McEneaney, PhD, CGP; Robert Milich, PhD; Alec L. Miller, PsyD; Zerka Moreno; Lita Moses, MSW, Bert Pepper, MD; Robert Pepper, MSW, PhD; Margaret Postlewaite, PhD; Arnold Rachman, PhD.; Ken Reinhard, PhD: Ona Robinson, PhD; Bob Schavarien, MSW; Ellen Singer, LCSW, CGP; Roberta Slavin, PhD,LP; Henry Spitz, MD; Peter Taylor, PhD; Maureen Underwood, LCSW, CGP; Rebecca Walters, M.S., LMHC, LCAT, TEP; David Weiser, MD; Nancy M. Witt, MS; Zeke Youcha, MSW

Additional topics have included: Executive Coaching; Self-Sabotaging Behavior; Sexual Compulsivity; Cognitive Behavior Group Psychotherapy; Children & Family Dealing with Trauma; Animal Assisted Therapy; Use of Group Skills Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Multi-Problem Patients; Money & Taboos, Bereavement, Treating Childhood Trauma; Self-Disclosure, Parenting; Marketing your group psychotherapy practice; Biodanza-Healing Movements, Applying Group Dynamics to Business Consultation, Eating Disordered Patients, Self-mutilators, Psychodrama, Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy, Working with Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Holocaust Survivors, Groups within Managed Care, Sandor Ferenczi and Group Therapy, Dealing with Work Inhibitions, Homogenous Groups, Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Major Impairments, Counter Gang for Inner-City Youth, Management of Anger & Violence, Goal-Focused Group  Psychotherapy for Older Adults, The Medical Community under the Nazis, PTSD, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Groups, Developmental Play Therapy Groups for Children, Erotic Imagination In Group Therapy, Help for Helpers Drop-in support group, Fall, 2001

Previous conferences and panels: 

July 3-5, 2008: WGPS Conference in Cyprus; all WGPS, EGPS and AGPA members were invited to attend.

January 21, 2004:  Joint meeting with the Psychiatric Society of Westchester, Crowne Plaza, White Plains; Howard Kibel, MD, CGP, FAGPA, spoke on his group experiences following 9/11/01.

June 13, 2003: End of the year dinner: Ruth Chris' Steak House, Paul Kymissus, MD, "Issues in the Management of Schizophrenia: the Convergence of Group Therapy and Psychopharmacology."

May 2, 2003, "Troubled Youth in Troubled Times: Group Therapy for Youth with Sexualized Behavior", co-sponsored with The Children's Village, Dobbs Ferry, New York

June 7, 2002, End of the year Membership Bash: Gourmet Dinner & Panel: "Group Process and Medication Issues: How Do They Mix?"

April 27, 2001, Day-long conference on "Sharing the Circle of Life with Adolescents: Group Dynamics and Practices", Westchester Country Club, Harrison, New York. Co-sponsored with the Westchester Medical Center Department of Behavioral Medicine.