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Digital Seminar

The Dating Crucible: Navigating the Common Challenges


Faculty:
Alexandra Solomon, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours 02 Minutes
Copyright:
Mar 19, 2021
Product Code:
NOS096124
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

With more and more people choosing to marry later in life and sometimes not at all, knowing how to date well in today’s fast-paced world is essential. Learning relational metaskills can help clients avoid anxiety and depression linked to recent dating trends and approach beginnings and endings with more integrity and self-awareness, reducing collateral damage to both self and others. In this recording, discover an integrative approach for helping your clients deal with common modern dating challenges, including using dating apps, identifying red flags, navigating commitment milestones, and breaking up. You’ll explore: 

  • How to teach relational self-awareness as an essential metaskill for success in romantic relationships 
  • How to help clients advocate for their relational needs with romantic partners 
  • An integrative approach to helping clients move from fear and relational ambivalence toward empowerment and clarity 

CPD


CPD
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 2.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

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Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD, is internationally recognized as one of today’s most trusted voices in the world of relationships, and her framework for Relational Self-Awareness has reached millions of people around the globe. A couple’s therapist, speaker, author, and professor, Dr. Alexandra is passionate about translating cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom into practical tools people can use to bring awareness, curiosity and authenticity to their relationships. She is a clinician educator and a frequent contributor to academic journals, and she translates her academic and therapeutic experience to the public through her popular Instagram page, which has garnered over 220k followers.

She is on the faculty in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and is a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. Her hit podcast, Reimagining Love, reaches tens of thousands of listeners across the globe each week and features deep dives into complex relationship dynamics as well as conversations with high-profile guests from the world of therapy, academia, and pop culture. She is the award-winning author of three bestselling books: Love Every Day, Loving Bravely, and Taking Sexy Back. Her work has been covered by outlets including NPR, Today, The New York Times, Scientific American, and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Alexandra Solomon maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Northwestern University. She receives royalties as a published author and is the podcast host of Reimaging Love. Dr. Solomon receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Alexandra Solomon is a thought leader for Heleo, a founding expert for the Mine'd app, and an ambassador for The Relationship School. She is an ad hoc for several peer review journals, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc. Dr. Solomon is a member of the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists.


Objectives

  1. Analyze the relationship between recent dating trends and clinical symptoms, like anxiety and depression, and how they inform treatment interventions. 
  2. Determine how to help clients set boundaries and advocate for their relational needs with romantic partners. 
  3. Evaluate with clients the importance of relational self-awareness in creating a successful romantic relationship. 

Outline

Explain the relationship between recent dating trends and clinical symptoms, like anxiety and depression, and how they inform treatment interventions. 
  • Present research findings about increased rates of depression and anxiety in emerging adults and how dating can be affected by mental health challenges. 
  • Provide clinicians with tools they can use to disrupt patterns of avoidance, disconnection, and self-abandonment. 
Identify how to help clients set boundaries and advocate for their relational needs with romantic partners. 
  • Describe the low accountability / low vulnerability dating climate and explore how it reinforces that which is already challenging—asking for what you need.  
  • Provide clinicians with tools that help clients build relational self-awareness so that boundary-setting becomes an expression of relational empowerment (versus control or self-protection).
Explore with clients the importance of relational self-awareness in creating a successful romantic relationship. 
  • Define relational self-awareness and we will focus on how to help clients understand how their past can create constraints to openness/curiosity/vulnerability/trust which are essential for those who are dating. 
  • Teach vulnerability cycle mapping (Sheinkman & Fishbane) as a tool to help clients move from the language of “red flags” to a relational approach to assessing goodness of fit. 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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