Group Approaches to Mass Trauma Response: Trauma, Compassion & Resiliency

As part of AGPS’ efforts to provide help and support for those affected by the July 4th floods, we are pleased to announce a training on using group approaches for community trauma events, led by two trauma experts from our parent organization, the American Group Psychotherapy Association. We hope you will join us! This is a free event.

Group Approaches to Mass Trauma Response: Trauma, Compassion & Resiliency

Date and Time: Friday Aug. 1st from 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Location: via Zoom, with link to follow

This event will be recorded and available to registrants.

Our community knows all too well—especially after the devastating Hill Country flooding—that natural disasters and other traumatic events are becoming an increasingly common part of our lives. Group therapists are ideally situated to respond to these events, both in the immediate aftermath and throughout the extended period of recovery. This 1-hour workshop, offered by trauma experts from AGPA, offers an overview of clinical work in the context of community traumatic events like natural disasters, with a particular emphasis on group that makes use of narrative, art-based, experiential, regulatory and embodied approaches. Topics will include the impact and nature of trauma, factors influencing the response to traumatic events, and practices for building resiliency and connection.

Presenters: Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, AGPA-DF and Craig Haen, Ph.D., RDT, CGP, LCAT, AGPA-F

Presenter bios:

Craig Haen, Ph.D., RDT, CGP, LCAT, AGPA-F

Dr. Craig Haen has a private practice working with children, adolescents,

adults and families in White Plains, NY, and provides consultation and

training on trauma-responsive practices, as well as frontline and secondary

response to traumatic events in communities and systems. He is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, where he co-chairs theCommunity Outreach Task Force, which facilitates the organization’s response to mass trauma events. He co-founded and serves as Program Director for the Kint Institute, offering post-Masters clinical training in the arts and trauma treatment. His most recent book is Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents, with Nancy Boyd Webb.

Suzanne B. Phillips Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, AGPA-DF

Dr. Suzanne Phillips is a licensed Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Diplomate in Group Psychology, Certified Group Therapist, Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) After 28 years she is a retired Adjunct Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at LIU Post, N.Y. She has provided services nationally and internationally on trauma and disaster. In February 2008, as Outreach Chair of AGPA, she gave testimony before Congress for the needs of members of the military and their families. She is the co-author of three books, The Analyst Pregnancy: Intrusion into the Analytic Space; Public Mental Health Service Delivery Protocols: Group Interventions for Disaster Preparedness and Response and Healing Together: A Couple’s Guide to Coping with Trauma and Post-Traumatic

Stress. She hosts a weekly radio show “ Psych Up Live” on Voice America Radio and writes a Blog,“ Speaking About Trauma” for Psychology Today. She has a private practice in Northport, N.Y. 11768.