Master Series in Clinical Practice
Jointly sponsored by The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Major Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School; Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; and William James College.
The Master Series affords the chance to spend a complete day with leaders in our field to consider the unique perspective each speaker brings to the challenging dilemmas in both theory and practice. We hope that you will consider joining us for the entire series at a reduced tuition or choose the programs most relevant to your own practice.
Judith Lewis Herman MD, Phillip Brown, LICSW, Lois Glass, LICSW, Barbara Hamm, PsyD and Emily Schatzow, MEd, instructors
Group therapy offers an antidote to the shame and isolation that commonly afflict trauma survivors (Mendelsohn, et. al, 2007). Group Therapy has acquired a strong evidence-base as an effective treatment for patients with histories of trauma (Shea, et. al, 2009), but in practice group therapy tends to be underutilized, because many practitioners find the challenges of trauma groups daunting. This workshop will offer practitioners skills for organizing successful groups. The course instructor will be joined by colleagues from the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Health Alliance who have developed and taught trauma group models for many years. We will begin with a review of the concept of recovery stages and the consensus guidelines for staged treatment of complex trauma developed by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (Cloitre et al, 2011). We will continue with an overview of the common features of all trauma groups. We will then distinguish the characteristic features of groups designed for patients at different stages of recovery, and present several specific group models with role-play demonstrations. Finally, we will discuss how these models have been adapted for different patient populations, and workshop participants will be encouraged to consider how to adapt these models for the diverse populations they serve.
Specific learning objectives:
1) Identify the common features of groups for trauma survivors;
2) Identify the distinguishing features of groups for each of three stages of recovery;
3) Identify which group model would be most useful for adaptation to the populations he or she serves.
Program Code: MS81
6 CE/CME Credits
Location: William James College, Newton
Judith Lewis Herman MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA. Dr. Herman received her medical degree at Harvard Medical School and her training in general and community psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center. She is the author of two award-winning books: Father-Daughter Incest, and Trauma and Recovery. She has lectured widely on the subject of sexual and domestic violence. She is the recipient of the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the 2000 Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women's Association. In 2007 she was named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Phillip Brown, LICSW, works at CHA Central Street Health Center and received his degree from Boston University School for Social Work
Lois Glass, LICSW, works with female and male survivors of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. she also has expertise in helping parents balance multiple responsibilities. She works with men and women who struggle with anxiety, depression, relationship stress, and career and professional crises. She received her degree from Simmons College School of Social Work.
Barbara Hamm, PsyD, has an adult practice essentially began in 1991 after receiving her Psy.D. from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. It was at this time that she began a specialty in the field of trauma psychology. The Victims of Violence Program at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, MA was one of the first hospital-based programs recognizing the impact of trauma and to offer such training. She began as an intern and 20 years later remains on staff as the Director of the Program. During her tenure as Director, she has introduced the arts into both the training and practice and has served as a founding organizer of the arts and social action program, Violence Transformed. She’s also strengthen the commitment to providing services for political violence survivors and developed a summer "Resiliency Institute". She has lectured widely to both national and international audiences and hold a faculty position with Harvard Medical School.
Emily Schatzow, MEd, is a psychotherapist and trainer. Co-founder of a local women’s mental health center, together with her colleagues, she developed theory and practice that challenged existing paradigms by seeing mental health as a byproduct of economic, social, political, and cultural realities. Ms. Schatzow has a graduate degree in counselor education from Boston University. Currently, she is Clinical Supervisor at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Health Alliance and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
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Cost per program
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1 program
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2 programs*
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3 programs*
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Doctoral Level Professionals
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$225 each
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$195 each
MS-2DS16
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$185 each
MS-3DS16
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Master’s Level Professionals
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$195 each
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$175 each
MS-2MS16
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$165 each
MS-3MS16
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Fellows, Interns, Students,
Unemployed & Retired Professionals
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$115 each
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$100 each
MS-2SS16
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$85 each
MS-3SS16
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*Only for Master Series attendees who register for multiple dates at the same time.