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Digital Seminar

Balancing Love and Self

Exploring Secure Functioning with the PACT Developmental Approach
Faculty:
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
Duration:
2 Hours 50 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
24 Mar, 2024
Product Code:
NOS096387
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

Sometimes one person’s needs in a relationship conflict with what the partnership requires. How do you balance both? Romantic partnerships based in secure functioning—where partners make their connection a priority while also caring for themselves—must achieve this balance. In this workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of PACT, a developmental approach to couples therapy that combines neuroscience, arousal regulation, and attachment theory. We’ll explore: 

  • Live demonstrations of “containers,” a unique organization method for assessing, intervening, and measuring a couple’s progress 
  • Assess and treat developmental roadblocks that partners bring into adult relationships 
  • How to create a secure-functioning relational system, one that emphasizes shared power and authority as well as fairness, justice, and mutual sensitivity 

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Faculty

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT's Profile

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Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT). He teaches and supervises family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, CA, and is an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stan Tatkin is the founder and director of the PACT Institute and has employment relationships California Lutheran University and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. He receives compensation as a national speaker, couples retreat leader and royalties as a published author. Stan Tatkin receives book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Stan Tatkin has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

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Objectives

  1. List at least five characteristics of a secure-functioning relationship. 
  2. Name and describe the brain’s error potentials and why they matter. 
  3. Assess threat perception in partners and be able to apply techniques for reducing or eliminating threat. 
  4. Define and implement containers in couple therapy. 

Outline

  • The fundamentals of the PACT developmental approach to working with couples 
  • What is secure functioning and how does it relate to couples therapy 
  • An overview of the nature of human primates 
  • The difference between secure attachment and secure functioning. 
  • Defining and working within the two-person psychological system 
  • Helping couples co-create their relationship architecture, culture, purpose, and vision. 
  • Assessing developmental roadblocks to secure functioning 
  • Human brain error potentials and why they contribute to threat perception. 
  • The critical functions of containers when working with couples 
  • The core characteristics of a secure-functioning relational system 
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks. 

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Social Workers

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