NYSSCSW Nassau Chapter
Annual Conference:
“Why Group Psychotherapy?”
Speaker: Robert S. Pepper, Ph.D., L.S.C.W., CGP
Date/Time Sunday, April 3, 2016
8:30 am – 1:15 pm
Place: Molloy College/Public Square Building,
Lorini Room/290A
(see below link for campus map)
CEU CREDITS: This course will constitute 4.0 contact hours for 4.0 CEU Credits
*Advanced Clinical Education Foundation of the NYSSCSW, Inc., SW CPE is recognized by the New York Sate Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed Social Workers #0056.
Space is limited – Registration is first come, first served basis
Program Overview:
A well-run therapy group emotionally resembles the members’ first group experience in their family. That is, members recreate the significant relationships of their lives, in vivo, with the other members. A group that is structured as a secure frame, one in which members are anonymous to each other outside the group and the leader’s relationship to member’s is solely doctor to patient, allows the group therapist to be reasonably certain that his or her observations of the manner in which members recreate their families of origin in the group are accurate. This then allows the leader to understand the manner in which members undermine themselves in their adult relationships, revealing the member’s unique character defenses and personality dynamics. This is a method that is not readily accessible for an individual therapist to apprehend directly. That is the healing potential of group. Other comparisons between group and individual therapy will be delineated.
Educational Objectives:
· Compare the differences between individual and group psychotherapy that illustrates the understanding of the power of group to react to the members’ family of origin in a way that is not easily accessible to the individual clinician.
· Provide a brief case example in which registrants apply techniques to resolve destructive resistances in group and identify countertransference resistances in leading a difficult group.
· Define induced feelings and describe a way that you would use this feeling to better understand the group.
· Explain ways that you will integrate the importance of secure boundaries within the group setting.
Schedule of Events:
8:30am– 9:00 am – Registration, Continental Breakfast & Networking
9:00 am– 9:15 am – Introductory Remark
9:15 am – 10:45 am – Presentation
10:45 am – 11:00 am BREAK
11:00 am – 12:30 pm – Presentation
12:30pm – 1:00 pm – Review and Questions
Speaker’s Bio
Robert S. Pepper, LCSW, Ph.D., CGP is the Director of Education and Training at the Long Island Institute for Mental Health in Rego Park, NY. He is also an adjunct professor of behavioral science at the New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan, NY. Dr. Pepper is the author of numerous articles on ethics and boundaries in psychotherapy and has lectured across the country on this topic. He is in private practice in Forest Hills, NY where he runs six (6) weekly transference groups.