Neuroscience in the Consulting Room: Enhancing the Impact of Couples Therapy
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Objectives
Assess how to “read” clients’ facial and body language as outward signs of their brain function and emotional processing.
Determine how to use this knowledge to select and time interventions more effectively.
Analyze how to make your interventions more efficient by tapping into the processes of relational regulation.
Determine when clients can’t self-soothe or access higher brain functions and intervene accordingly.
Copyright :24/03/2017
Couples on the Brink: When Is Enough Enough?
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Objectives
Focus on how to quickly get to the heart of the matter and articulate the couple’s stuckness, then reawaken warmth and closeness, helping them remember love and back off the ledge if possible
Focus on what to do when one partner is ambivalent about the relationship and clearly disengaged from therapy
Focus on what to do when your own deal breakers, such as physical or psychological abuse, are part of the couple’s history
Focus on how to proceed when addiction issues cloud the viability of the relationship’s future or when there’s been betrayal or infidelity
Copyright :25/03/2017
Creating Secure Connection in Couples Therapy: An Emotionally Focused Approach
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Objectives
Discover how to differentiate each partner’s emotions in order to contain reactive emotion and evoke vulnerabilities
Discover how to recognize and assess each partner’s role in destructive patterns of interaction
Discover how to restructure couples’ negative patterns and stay in process when they become emotionally activated
Discover how to use voice, reflection, and validation to help partners share their deepest vulnerabilities
Copyright :24/03/2017
Addiction Treatment and Couples Therapy: Using Emotionally Focused Therapy to Strengthen Sobriety
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Objectives
Discover how to use micro-tracking to identify and make explicit the rigid negative attachment-based patterns that perpetuate relational distress in addictive relationships
Discover how to systematically engage emotion to create bonding moments that support the addict in reaching out to their partner rather than their substance/behavior of choice
Discover how to apply powerful attachment-based interventions as an effective alternative to the familiar modes of confronting denial that often fail and trigger relapse
Copyright :25/03/2017
BONUS: Attachment and the Dance of Sex: Integrating Couples and Sex Therapy
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Objectives
Show how attachment science offers a new understanding of sexuality
Explain how the emotional sanctuary of committed relationships can help partners discover their distinctive sexual signature
Explore optimal lovemaking
Copyright :19/03/2016
BONUS: The Rules of the New Monogamy: The Changing Face of Committed Relationships
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Objectives
Determine how to help clients develop a code of integrity that will define their monogamy and develop their own unique shared definition of honesty, even if it involves a departure from traditional sexual fidelity
Demonstrate how to coach clients on negotiating flexible monogamy arrangements as well as how to renegotiate a new one after infidelity
Analyze why open marriages work for some and fail for others—and how to identify the early problem signs and help couples recover when the arrangement isn’t working