group therapy

September 12, 19, 26, 2017

12:15 – 1:30 pm

IIGP

29600 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 100A

Southfield, MI 48034

This course will have a brief overview of the history of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)

and will address the theory and therapeutic process used with EFT approach. Clinical

materials will be utilized to integrate the uses of EFT.

Participants will:

Identify the principles of EFT theory.

Understand the overlaps of EFT and Crisis Mobilization Theory (CMT).

Recognize ways to integrate EFT into clinical material.

Anne K. Herrick, MSW, completed her Bachelor’s of Liberal Arts at Albion College, Albion, Michigan in 1998 where she studied psychology. She then obtained her Master’s in Social Work at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in 2000. While in her graduate program, Anne focused on individual and group work in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Upon graduation Anne treated families and children in a variety of settings including in-home support and behavioral issue consulting. Since that time Anne has assisted many families adjusting to parenting through the Beaumont Hospital Parenting Program. Anne is a graduate of The Institute for Individual and Group Psychotherapy. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.

Robert Rogers PhD, LP is a graduate of the University of Detroit-Mercy. He has been a Psychologist for 16 years and Adjunct professor at University of Detroit Mercy. Currently in private practice, Robert is a graduate of The Institute for Individual and Group Psychotherapy.

Tuesday Seminar Registration:

Please email the Institute at deborah@iigp.orq for reservations. The registration deadline for the Seminar is Tuesday

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September 12, 19, 26, 2017. Registration deadline is 15 minutes prior to the session. The sessions will begin promptly.

Fees are payable in advance and assignments (if applicable) will be sent out only after payment has been received. Checks are payable to IIGP and can be mailed to the office, 29600 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 100A, Southfield, MI 48034.
Please include your contact information in your email (Name, address, phone, email, degree etc.)

The IIGP Faculty, CME/CE committee members and the presenters receive no commercial support nor have conflicts of interest for this seminar.

The Institute for Individual and group Psychotherapy is committed to training psychotherapists. IIGP is approved by the Michigan State Medical society to provide continuing education for phsyicians. Not all programs are eligible for CME – please check with the Institute. Our programs are approved by the Michigan Social Work continuing Education Collaborative for Social Workers.

IIGP_Blog 12a_No 202722442 What advantage does group therapy have over only individual therapy? Using an analogy, let’s say therapy is akin to going clothes shopping. Often, when one goes clothes shopping they have only a single mirror in front of them, reflecting back what they look like. You might turn to one side or the other, trying to see if your belly is protruding, or gauging whether how tight or ill-fitting a garment might be on your posterior. However, if you’re lucky, you’ll come across a dressing room that comes well equipped with a three-sided mirror that gives you multiple vantage points from all sides. Following those shopping excursions, you may tend to get a more accurate view of your outfit, which also may translate into better eating habits and more exercise (should your clothes not fit so well, etc.) Sticking with the analogy, the reasons for making some lifestyle choices seem obvious: multiple perspectives allow you to see all your profiles at once.

Hopefully, the clothes shopping metaphor puts into focus what advantages group therapy can have over only individual therapy. No person can really see how they look, behave and interact with others unless multiple mirrors are held up for viewing. With several angles provided simultaneously, there is the opportunity to have accurate reflections of how we interact, behave and respond, all in ways that we can’t see by ourselves.

IIGP_Blog 12b_No 138711317 But a therapeutic group has other advantages over an individual setting as well. The group setting is a closer match to real life. Ideally, the group is a healthy mix of people: young and old, men and women, varied ethic/racial groups, differing economic and educational backgrounds, etc.

Group involvement is not a perfect system, of course. We don’t have the luxury of choosing participants that are all pre-vetted to raise just the right issues in everyone else, but when does that happen in real life, either?

Still, the odds that troubling or hindering behavior patterns will show in a group are much more likely than in a one-on-one session. Both individual and groups sessions, combined, are useful, but the group setting, for most people, is indispensible.

Besides, when trying to change lifelong behavior patterns, a key therapeutic goal, it’s reassuring to have comrades by your side. Walking together helps when the path to better living gets rough.