2025-S Call -Submissions for the 2025 Summer Issue of The Group Psychologist
Call for sharing ideas for the 2025 Summer Issue of The Group Psychologist: Submission Deadline, June 12th, 2025 We have started editing the Summer Issue of the division 49 Newsletter fostering communication and information regarding group psychology and group psychotherapy. We are interested in articles, group resources, pre and post-doctoral articles, research opportunities that will be of interest […]
2025-S-leadership and Creative Expression 2025
Queering Leadership and Exploring Gender Expansiveness in Organizational Life Friday, April 11, 2025, to Sunday, April 13, 2025 The conference will be held on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills. Group relations conferences offer experiential learning about complex group dynamics, revealing some of the more hidden, unconscious aspects of power, authority, leadership, followership, […]
2025-S-Spring 2025 Group Therapy Conference
Spring 2025 Group Therapy Conference We’re planning our Spring 2025 Group Therapy Conference. We love hosting this conference every year—it’s truly one of the most meaningful and energizing experiences we get to be a part of. But let’s be real… a conference is only as powerful as the people who attend it. And that means […]
2025-S-Presidents Column
President Column: Updates from the 2025 Mid-Winter Board Meeting Joe Miles Ph.D. * On January 24 and 25th, the Board held its annual Midwinter Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. It is always energizing and fun to get together with a group of people who care deeply about the Division and the theory, research, and practice of […]
2025 – S- social Atom in an Organizational Setting
Healing of Communities and Societies in Action: Utilizing the social Atom in an Organizational Setting Özge Kantaş, PhD., CP/PAT . For Moreno, psychotherapy was never to target individual psychopathologies but also to address societal disparities or organizational dysfunctionalities that cause these mental health outcomes. During World War I, when Dr. Jacob Moreno circled up the […]
2025-S- Editorial
Editorial Greetings, dear reader. As we find ourselves amidst a seemingly overwhelming flood of online information, we are happy you have found your way to The Group Psychologist. Relying on expertise, wisdom, and engaging with others with similar values is a source of solace that we hope to enable here. Numerous authors in this issue […]
2025-S- Group Therapy Conference
Spring 2025 Group Therapy Conference We’re planning our Spring 2025 Group Therapy Conference. We love hosting this conference every year—it’s truly one of the most meaningful and energizing experiences we get to be a part of. But let’s be real… a conference is only as powerful as the people who attend it. And that means […]
2025-S-Navigating Trauma: For LBGTQ+ Providers
Caring for Oneself and the Community While Navigating Trauma: For LBGTQ+ Providers and Affirming Providers Julio J. Fonseca Caring for myself is not self-indulgence; it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. Audre Lorde The most important thing to remember is that allyship is a verb, not a noun. You […]
2025-S-Past-President’s Column
Training Groups: A Path towards Professional and Personal Growth Francis Kaklauskas & Elizabeth Olson. While psychology training continues to emphasize the academic study of group and external forces that impact individual and group behavior, experiential learning is rarely prioritized (Falgares et al., 2017). As a result, many scholars and clinicians seek opportunities for continued learning and […]
2025-s- When Creativity Meets Healing
Yi Li-Brown, M.S.Ed (current psychology intern at University at Buffalo Counseling Services) I was told from a very young age that “only useless people would become an artist” – no offense to all my artists out there. Growing up in mainland China, I was immersed in the strong belief on productivity and utility. The industry […]