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 food is served. There is a brief business meeting followed by a presentation by an invited guest or guests.
The following have been the presentations since March, 2008: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.
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
September 25, 2009: "Expand your Group Therapy Horizons Getting in Touch with Your Business Side", Michelle Maidenberg, PhD, MPH, LCSW-R, CGP
March 13, 2009: "On Knowing and Being Known: Considerations for the Use of Self", Robin Good, PhD, FAGPA, CGP
January 23rd, 2009: "Group Process in Developmentally-Focused Parent/Infant Groups" , Martha Edwards, PhD
December 12th, 2008: "Group Theory in Family Practice: An Interactive Workshop in Family Sculpture", Susan Conte, PhD, LCSW & Robert Schavrien, LCSW
October 24th, 2008: "Meeting and Reclaiming the Missing Self in Groups" , Carol Kramer Slepian, LCSW
September 12th, 2008: "Expand your group therapy horizons with WGPS -Come network, discuss group therapy practice issues, and join our community."
May 30, 2008: WGPS General Membership & Networking Dinner Meeting at the home of Ken (WGPS president) and Chris Reinhard
May 9th, 2008: "Building Metaphoric Communities in Group Work with Traumatized Disconnected Children and Adolescents", Emily Nash, LCAT
March 14th, 2008: "Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Patients in Group Psychotherapy: Understanding the Essentials", Peter J. Taylor, PhD, CGP
January 11th, 2008: "Surviving and Working Through Anger and Resistance in Group", Leo Leiderman, PhD, ABPP, CGP
*********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.