Why Group Therapy: Going From Fixing Problems to Creating Possibilities

This interactive presentation will introduce you to social therapy—a unique group therapy approach that helps those in treatment grow and create the lives they want. Social Therapy illustrates that, though many people experience emotional pain individually, they can get better when healing with others. The group work focuses on critical life skills such as attending, becoming emotionally and socially flexible, and living life in a continuously creative fashion. This approach has successfully treated a wide variety of emotional and life issues.

This developmental and non-diagnostic approach is one of many new approaches that are part of a Cultural Revolution taking place in the field: postmodern challenges, a new focus on prevention, and findings in brain science that identify relationality as key to change and to development. Some people within this Cultural Revolution are asking if life could be better understood if seen through the eyes of a poet, storyteller, or painter, rather than just from the perspective of the scientific community. Seeing life from a cultural and relational lens is an important addition to clinicians' therapeutic skill sets.

Jennifer Bullock and Murray Dabby are group therapists in private practice and teachers of therapists, conducting training for clinicians who are interested in adding or advancing their group therapy skills.

This introductory web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Identify the distinction between some traditional group therapy models and the social therapeutic group therapy approach;
2. Utilize one group-building technique;
3. Explain the use of creativity and performance in the group framework;
4. Identify and focus on 'relationality' and the social as the unit of development in therapeutic work.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this Web Conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. GoodTherapy.org solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. 

GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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