Mental Health and Telemedicine Organizations and Their Events

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ECU began conducting telemedicine consultations in 1992 and to date have completed over 2,350 consultations in 32 different specialties of medicine over its REACH-TV network. Supporting Telemedicine, Distance Learning and Continuing Medical Education programs, the REACH-TV network is made up of ATM, T1, Microwave, ISDN, and POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) communication links spread out over the state of North Carolina.

Group psychotherapy training by senior members of the American Group Psychotherapy Association is available in New York City.

The official publication of EGPS is Group.

1. 54-th Annual Conference: "Integration and Expansion: Leading Groups on a Changing World" New York, NY: November 20-21, 2009

• Welcome
  • Patti Cox, PhD, CGP (Conference Committee Co-Chair)
  • Michelle Collins-Greene, PhD, President, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]
• The Neurobiology of Attachment: Understanding Group Psychotherapy as the Ultimate Co-Regulatory System
  • Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CSAT, CST, Clinical Director, Center for Healthy Sex, Los Angeles, California
  • Barbara Feld, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA (chair)
  • Fred Wright, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York [CUNY] (discussant)
• Introduction to the Basics of Group Psychotherapy
  • James Ellis, PhD, CGP, Co-Director, Training Program, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]
  • Marie Rothschild, LCSW, CGP, Co-Director, Training Program, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]
  • Ellen Rubin, PsyD, Co-Dean of Admissions, Training Program, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]
  • Alan Shanel, LCSW, BCD, CGP, Dean of Faculty, Training Program, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]
  • Phyllis Wright, LCSW, CGP, Dean of Curriculum, Training Program, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]
• The Depth and Power of Somatic Experiencing: Applications for Group Psychotherapists
  • Peter Taylor, PhD, SEP, CGP, FAGPA, Immediate Past-President, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]
  • Roger Saint-Laurent, PsyD, SEP, CGP
• The Development of the Interpersonal Ego in Group Treatment
  • Elliot Zeisel, PhD, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA, Chairman, Group Department, Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
• Promoting Lifestyle Change through Group Treatment
  • Neal Spivack, PhD, CGP, Department of Veterans Affairs, New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York Campus
• Boundaries: Changing World, Changing Roles – Containment and Flexibility in Groups
  • Shari Baron, MSN, RN, CNS, CGP, Havertown, Pennsylvania
  • Anne McEneaney, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, New York University
• Couple Therapy: The Many Faces of Honesty
  • Bernard Frankel, PhD, ABPP, LCSW, BCD, Faculty, Individual, Group and Couple Therapy Programs, Post Graduate Training Program, Adelphi University, New York
• Integrating Parallel Process and Induced Feelings in Supervision Groups
  • Gail Brown, MA, LP, CGP, Director, Academic Training, The Center for Group Studies
• Social Interaction Groups for Children and Pre- Adolescents
  • Andrea Grunblatt, PhD, CGP
  • Kathy Rousseau, LMSW
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT] – A Mindfulness-Based, Values Directed Behavioral Therapy Applied in a Group Context
  • Rob Handelman, PsyD
• Regulating Your Emotions: A DBT Informed Approach to Leading Groups
  • Kari Taylor, PhD, Center for Intensive Treatment of Personality Disorders, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, New York
• Expanding Systemic Work in Groups: Application of Psychodrama in Dealing with Family-of-Origin Issues
  • Jacob Gershoni, LCSW, CGP, TEP
• So, … what’s eating you? Group as ‘ Table of Origin’
  • Terry Nathanson, LCSW-R, LMT
• Large Group Experience
  • Martha Gilmore, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Sacramento, California
  • Haim Weinberg, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Sacramento, California
  • Mary Dluhy, MSW, CGP, FAGPA, , Faculty, Washington School of Psychiatry, National Group Psychotherapy Institute, Washington DC (group consultant)
• Understanding and Working through Blocks to Interpersonal Communications
  • Gregory MacColl, LCSW, CGP
• An Introduction to Cognitive Therapy: How it Can Affect Experience in Today’s World
  • Robert Schachter, EdD, Faculty, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
• Applications of Neuroscience and Attachment Theory to Group Treatment of Relationship Issues
  • Darryl Feldman, PhD, ABPP, CGP
  • Gloria Batkin Kahn, EdD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
• Working with Parallel Processes – Organizational Culture and its Affect on Group Dynamics
  • Rachel Barak Stein
• Countertra n s f e rence in Working with Medically Ill and Rehabilitation Populations
  • Sharan Schwartzberg, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Professor of Occupational Therapy, Science and Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Medford, Massachusetts
  • Kathleen Hubbs Ulman, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
• A Marriage Made in Heaven or Hell: the Potential and Pitfalls of Co-Therapy
  • Sara Emerson, LISCW, CGP, FAGPA, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Jeffrey Kleinberg, PhD, CGP, FAGPA
• The Use of Mirroring In Groups to Facilitate Emotional Growth
  • Sima Ariam, PhD, CGP
• I Never Gave a Workshop: Banishing Professional Stage Fright and Creating New Possibilitie
  • Phyllis Cohen, PhD, FAGPA
• Affect Regulation and the Social Engagement System: Using Group Psychotherapy as a Holistic Approach for Sex Addiction Treatment
  • Alexandria Katehakis, MFT, CSAT, CST [see above]
• The Development of the Therapist:What are the Key Contributors?
  • Harold Bernard, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, New York University, New York
  • Robert Klein, PhD, ABPP, CGP, DLFAGPA, Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Jerome Gans, MD, CGP, FAGPA, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Suzanne Phillips, PsyD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, CW Post Campus, Long Island University
  • Victor Schermer, MA, LPC, CGP, FAGPA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Starting Where You A re: Beginning Groups in Various Settings
  • Shawneladee Cole, LCSW-R, ABD, Woodhull Hospital
  • Yoon Im Kane, LCSW
  • Jani Klebanow, PhD
  • Frank Lawatsch, LMSW, HELP/PSI
• Support Groups for the Financially Troubled in the Changing World
  • Shoshana Ben-Noam, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA
• Dealing with Change in a Changing World
  • Bruce Bernstein, PhD, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA
• Promoting Attachment in Couples: What Group Therapists Know
  • Eleanor Counselman, EdD, CGP, FAGPA, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
• The Leader’s Role in Containing Aggression: A Means to Conflict Resolution
  • Lena Blanco Furgeri, EdD, LCSW, CGP, FAGPA
• New Paradigms for Group Analytic Treatment: Intersubjectivity, Dissociation and Enactment
  • Robert Grossmark, PhD, Adjunct Faculty in Clinical Psychology, City University of New York [CUNY], New York
  • Fred Wright, PhD [see above]
• Changing Needs for Changing Times: Adapting Your Marketing Strategies to Maximize Your Client Base
  • Carol Dallinga, LCSW, CGP, Past President, Westchester Group Psychotherapy Society
• It's a Funny Thing, Humor: Uses and Abuses of Humor in Group Psychotherapy
  • Patricia Doyle, PhD, CGP
• The Effects of the Group Therapist Life Narrative on the Here and Now Group Process
  • Michelle Collins-Greene, PhD
• The Impact of Training Program Groups on Candidate Groups: An Intersubjective Perspective
  • Melinda Blitzer, PhD
  • Libby O’Connor, LCSW, School of Social Work, New York University, New York
  • Heather Perrin- Boyle, PsyD
  • Mark Sammons, PhD
• Knowing and Being Known: Considerations for the Use of Self
  • Robin Good, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Faculty, Training Program, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]
• Please Stop Talking About the Money! (…..but it’s not about the money)
  • Barbara Mitchell, LCSW
• Death and Its Aftermath: Dealing with Unresolved Grief in Group Treatment
  • Mary Sussillo, LCSW, CGP
• What I Did Not Know I Knew: Writing and Memory
  • Dominick Grundy, PhD, CG
• Building Resilience in Groups
  • Ronnie Levine, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Faculty, Center for Group Studies
• Contemporary Applications of Self Psychology in Group Therapy: Sustained Empathic Focus and Vulnerability
  • Marty Livingston, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Director, Group Therapy Training, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, New York
• The Process Group for Integrating and Expanding the Training of Mental Health Professionals in Group Therapy
  • Philip Luloff, MD, FAPA, CGP, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York
• Working with Modern Couples in the Real World
  • Lee Kassan, MA, CGP
  • Lynn Pearl, PhD, CGP
• Closing Remarks and Introduction to Plenary
  • Edward Elder, LMHC, MDiv (Conference Co-Chair)
• Integration and Expansion: Taking Our Learnings into the World
  • Evangelina Holvino, EdD, President, Chaos Management., Brattleboro, Vermont
  • Margaret Postlewaite, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, Ex-president, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society [EGPS]

Objectives:

• Promote and facilitate effective networking, collaboration and consultancy among members
• Strengthen capacity building or counsellors through facilitation of standardised training supervision, monitoring and evaluation in the region
• Advocate for the recognition of counselling as a profession
• Identify and mobilise human and material resources for counselling activities
• Establish an information and research centre
• Conduct and facilitate research in counselling

Objectives:

• Raise awareness among policy makers and the public at large about the serious health risk posed by eating disorders
• Promote federal support for improved access to care
• Increase resources for research, education, prevention, and improved training
• Increase funding and support for scientific research on the causes, prevention, and treatment of eating disorder
• Promote initiatives that support the healthy development of children
• Mobilize concerned citizens to advocate on behalf of people with eating disorders, their families, and professionals working with these populations

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