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Digital Seminar

A Male-Friendly Approach to Couples Therapy Fulfillment (A708) (Audio Only)


Average Rating:
   3
Faculty:
Steven Stosny, Ph.D.
Duration:
5 Hours 47 Minutes
Format:
Audio Only
Copyright:
Jul 22, 2010
Product Code:
NOS095540
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Session 1: Engaging Men In Therapy

  • Men tend to approach therapy not to have a relationship with the therapist, engage in meaningful dialogue, explore feelings, or discuss family of origin issues. Rather, they approach therapy in the same way they go to lawyers, accountants, and physicians, with specific problems for which they want specific advice. Strategies for engaging men in approaches to therapy that emphasize the above are discussed. 

Session 2: Fear And Shame

  • An unconscious fear-shame dynamic undermines whatever couples talk about. Men who are reluctant to talk about feelings will come to life when dread of failure--as a provider, protector, lover, or parent--is put on the table. Then they can understand how the ways they cope with their dread of failure--attack or withdraw--stimulates their partner’s fear of harm, isolation, or deprivation. 

Session 3: Core Value

  • Here we discuss how to address the core values of men about the meaning and purpose of their lives and their longing for connection, which, though often hidden beneath inflated egos, is just as strong as their wives’ longing.

Session 4: Styles of Attachments

  • Learn how to reconcile differences in styles of attachment that tend to make one partner frustrated and the other bewildered. Intimacy increases when both partners step out of the comfort zones of their own styles to make harmony.

Session 5: Recipes

  • Men tend to like recipes for what to do and how to behave. The trick for the therapist is to load recipes with content, rather than hope that the client is patient enough to find the recipes in the content. Instructors and participants share successful recipes.

Session 6: Summation

  • Review of course and discussion of how to apply the principles and techniques highlighted.

Objectives:

  1. Learn to teach clients to recognize when the fear-shame dynamic undermines their interaction.
  2. Learn to show clients how to react with compassion to a vulnerability that they don’t share.
  3. Learn to demonstrate to clients the ways in which compassionate connection regulates both fear and shame.

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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Counselors

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Psychologists

Marriage & Family Therapists

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Faculty

Steven Stosny, Ph.D. Related seminars and products


Steven Stosny, Ph.D. is the director of Compassion Power and author of You Don't Have to Take It Anymore: How to Turn a Resentful, Angry or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One and Love Without Hurt.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.

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