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Digital Seminar

Bad Couples Therapy: How to Avoid Doing It (A107)


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Faculty:
William Doherty, PhD
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jan 01, 2012
Product Code:
NOS095510
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Session 1:

  • Why Couples Therapy Is So Difficult
  • Documenting the problem
  • Basic mistakes, part 1

Session 2:

  • Common Pitfalls of Couples Therapy and How to Avoid Them
  • Basic mistakes, part 2
  • How to structure couples sessions

Session 3:

  • Advanced Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  • How to not undermine couples' commitment
  • Working with our values about commitment

Session 4:

  • Working with Couples on the Brink
  • Supporting commitment when feasible
  • Practical strategies for helping couples decide

Session 5:

  • Doing Better by Remarried Couples
  • What therapists overlook about stepfamily dynamics
  • Special ways to work with remarried couples

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe common mistakes of inexperienced clinicians in couples work.
  • Describe common mistakes made by experienced clinicians in couples therapy.
  • Discuss how therapists' values determine how they deal with a couple's commitment issues.
  • Identify common mistakes therapists make when working with remarried couples.
  • Discuss the most effective couples therapy strategies

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). 

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Marriage & Family Therapists

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Faculty

William Doherty, PhD's Profile

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William Doherty, PhD, is a professor and director of the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project at the University of Minnesota. He is co-author of the book Helping Couples on the Brink of Divorce: Discernment Counseling for Troubled Relationships, with Steven Harris. He is cofounder of Better Angels, an initiative to depolarize America.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. William Doherty has an employment relationship with the University of Minnesota. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. William Doherty is a member of the National Council on Family Relations, the International Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, and the American Psychological Association.


Additional Info

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

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