This three-hour workshop will explore how combined individual and group therapy is an effective treatment approach for clients stuck in interpersonal patterns that limit their relationship satisfaction. Group + individual helps clients shift relational dynamics that are difficult to uncover and address through individual therapy alone. It also helps them understand their emotional reactions to others more deeply and work through their fears and anxieties related to intimacy in a safe environment. Clients can practice skills in the “laboratory” of interpersonal group therapy and bring emotional reactions and material back to individual therapy for deeper exploration.
Participants will learn key elements of modern analytic and intersectional approaches to group psychotherapy. We’ll distinguish constructive and destructive aggression, the critical role modern analysis suggests aggression plays in resolving long-standing interpersonal issues, and how an intersectional approach helps members explore, know, and claim different parts of their identities.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course participants will be able to:
Explain how modern analysis understands aggression and how this helps clients resolve long-standing interpersonal patterns
Explain an intersectional framework and how this helps clients more fully integrate multiple competing and often marginalized identities.
Identify 3 signs that a client is ready for concurrent individual and group therapy.
Identify the correct level of care and type of group for individual clients.
Identify 3 interventions to help clients get the most out of the group once they’ve joined.
INSTRUCTOR: Laura Kasper, Ph.D.
CE CREDITS: 3.00
TUITION:
$105 General Public
$75 Full NCSPP Members
$66 CMH Members
$60 Associate Members
$45 Student Members
$45 Scholarship (prior approval required to register at this fee)
Tuition listed above is for early registration ($40 discount off full fee, $15 discount for NCSPP Student Members). For registrations received after the deadline, full tuition will be applied to all registrations. Tuition does not include the cost of readers.
EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: January 26, 2024