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Digital Seminar

The Trauma of Endings

Helping Clients Navigate Breakups and Divorce

Faculty:
Alexandra Solomon, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours
Copyright:
04 Oct, 2024
Product Code:
POS150021
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

The data is clear: most of us will author more than one love story in our lifetime. We talk a lot about the skills and paradigms that individuals and couples need to create an intimate relationship. But we don’t talk nearly enough about the skills and paradigms that individuals and couples need in order to end an intimate relationship. Learning relational meta skills can help clients approach endings—and new beginnings—with more integrity and Relational Self-Awareness, reducing collateral damage to both self and others. In this workshop, discover an integrative approach for helping your clients better understand the thoughts, feelings, and common issues that arise during a breakup as well as integrating the loss and preparing to begin dating again. You’ll explore:

  • How to teach Relational Self-Awareness as an essential meta skill to navigate clarify boundaries and make sense of relationship endings
  • 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

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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 program is worth 2.0 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Faculty

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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 an adjunct professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and an instructor for MasterClass. She has been in practice as a licensed clinical psychologist for nearly 30 years and is the founder of The Institute for Relational Self-Awareness. 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 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 (APA), and the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).

 

 


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Objectives

  1. Identify how to help clients set boundaries and advocate for their relational needs with new romantic partners.
  2. Determine with clients the importance of Relational Self-Awareness in creating a successful romantic relationship.
  3. Identify common therapeutic pitfalls when working with clients who are ending a relationship or beginning a new one.

Outline

The Psychology of Goodbye

  • Internal dynamics: cognition, emotion, somatic, psychodynamics, narrative
  • Relational dynamics: ambivalence, boundaries, power
  • How we process grief
  • Developmental considerations: emerging adults, folks at midlife

Self-of-the-Therapist

  • Working with Relational Ambivalence
  • Keeping a relational frame (Individual Therapy for Couple Problems, Gurman)

Integration of Loss

  • “The best way to get over someone is to get under someone new!”
  • Working with your client’s indirect system Indicators of readiness to begin again

Dating after Loss

  • First Date Data
  • Pacing
  • Sexual Boundaries

Target Audience

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

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