Bad and Good Couples Therapy 1.5 CEU's - $60
Most training workshops focus only about what to do make therapy effective. But we all know that mistakes are common in therapy, and perhaps particularly in marriage couples therapy, which Jay Haley once said is the most difficult of all types of therapy to do well. This workshop will identify the most common screw-ups therapists make in couples therapy, and demonstrate ways to avoid them and do good work. There will be something for both beginning and experienced therapists, who tend to make different mistakes. Movie clips, some of them hilarious, will demonstrate bad therapy with couples, and a video of a fascinating real case will demonstrate a practical protocol for working with couples when divorce is on the table. The workshop will describe how therapists’ values about commitment influence our work with couples, for better and worse, and how we mess up so frequently—and how can do better.
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Couples on the Brink 2.5 CEU's
The most critical life decision most therapists deal with in their everyday practice is helping couples decide whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it. Nevertheless few of us have had specific training in assisting an ambivalent couple on the brink of divorce. Learn more & buy
Using the Family FIRO Model - 1 CEU
Priority setting with multiproblem couples and families is one of the tricky. Start with the wrong issue and you get bogged down not knowing why. Using an adaptation of Schutz’s FIRO model, you'll get a way to set priorities when working with complex couples. Learn more & buy
Working with Remarried Couples in Stepfamilies - 2 CEUs
Remarried couples in stepfamilies may get the worst treatment of any family form because many couples therapists don’t have special ways to work with them. For example, you can’t help most remarried couples without dealing with coparenting in a major way .Learn more & buy
How Experienced Therapists Undermine Marriage
Some therapists, even those technically skilled, undermine marital commitment. They pathologize couples relationships, taking the side of the spouse learning “out” of the marriage, and by using slogans (“I’m not here to save marriages—I’m hear to help people.”) Learn more & buy
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“To Divorce Or Work On The Marriage: A Protocol For Working With Ambivalent Clients” No CEU's
This presentation will give you a protocol for helping clients make a decision that has integrity for all involved and that improves the odds that couples will try to heal their broken bond. Learn more & buy