2025-Sp-President Elect
Michele D. Ribeiro, EdD, ABPP, CGP, AGPA-F, APA-F Dear Colleagues and Friends of Division 49, 2025 began with the usual sense of possibility and hope that a new year brings. However, soon after the inauguration, I found myself flooded with reports of chaos and upheaval on my daily commute, which I spend listening to Oregon […]
2025-Sp-Teaching Facilitation of Group Therapy
Book Review Reviewed by Michele D. Ribeiro, EdD, ABPP, CGP, AGPA-F, APA-F You can sense the mastery of Brown’s teachings, seamlessly intertwined with her deep, experiential understanding of group therapy. I was honored to be asked to review Teaching Facilitation of Group Therapy: Processes and Applications by Dr. Nina W. Brown, published by Routledge Press […]
2025 -Sp-Budget Division 49
Treasurer: Debra O’Connell, PhD. 2025 Proposed Budget for Presentation at the Mid-Winter Meeting that will be available May 2025. * Budget Past Issues –Return to The Group Psychologist Homepage
2025-Sp-Coding Small Group Communication with AI
Coding Small Group Communication with AI: RNNs and Transformers with Context Andrew Pilny, Joseph Bonito & Aaron Schecter View all authors and affiliations Abstract This study compares the performance of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and transformer-based models (DistilBERT) in classifying utterances as dialogue acts. The results show that transformers consistently outperform RNNs, highlighting their usefulness […]
2025-Sp-Review: Advances in Group Therapy Trauma
Advances in Group Therapy Trauma Treatment ? Reviewed by R. M. Billow, Ph.D TTrauma—the metapsychology of trauma and the reality of trauma and its clinical syndromes and treatment–has come to occupy central stage in twentieth-first century psychology. As its title suggests, Advances in Group Therapy Trauma Treatment (edited by Leonardo M. Leiderman and Bonnie J. […]
2025-Sp-Division 49- Student Representatives
Student Representatives Ilana Kristina Ander, MS Ed BiographyI am a fourth-year PhD student in Counseling Psychology at Fordham University-Lincoln Center in New York City. My research focus is group complementary and integrative mental health treatments for female survivors of sexual trauma and for low-income individuals. I am currently training at the VA New York Harbor […]
2025-Sp– Role Reversal & Role Playing
Beneficial Effects of Role Reversal in Comparison to Role-playing on Negative Cognitions about Other’s Judgments for Social Anxiety Disorder Hanieh Abeditehrani1, Corine Dijk1, Mohsen Dehghani Neyshabouri2, Arnoud Arntz1 1 University of Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Clinical Psychology, Tehran, Iran Abeditehrani, H., […]
2025-Sp-Psychotherapy Practice Research Network
George Tasca Ph.D “The Psychotherapy Practice Research Network (PPRNet) offers psychotherapy providers in Canada and the US free professional development to repair therapeutic alliance ruptures. By participating in our study, you can improve your skills and patients’ outcomes and contribute to knowledge about psychotherapy. To learn more, visit the website https://researchpprnet.ca/. Return to The Group Psychologist Homepage
2024-F Call for sharing ideas for the 2025 Spring Issue of The Group Psychologist:
Call for sharing ideas for the 2025 Spring Issue of The Group Psychologist: Submission Deadline, February 12th, 2025. We have started editing the Spring 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 […]
2025-Sp-Psychological Safety for Departments & Faculty
Creating and Improving Psychological Safety for Departments and Faculty Nina Brown Ed.D. Psychological safety is a team-based phenomenon, according to Porter-Stransky et.al, (2024) whereby group members are empowered to ask questions, take appropriate risks, admit mistakes, propose novel ideas, and candidly voice concerns. Building psychological safety is beneficial for faculty and for their departments to […]