4.0 ethics clock hours

Open to all levels

Description:

This six-hour program seeks to provide information and recommendations for mental health professionals whose work includes the assessment and treatment of couples and families. The program begins with an update on legal and ethical developments that affect providers, and then moves to a discussion of risk management strategies for clinicians, including the most critical issues faced by clinicians in their work. We continue with important issues concerning confidentiality and “secrets” in couples and family therapy. The program then moves to a discussion of licensing Board complaints against couples and family therapists, starting with information that includes the fact that the highest frequency of board complaints involves conflicts regarding child custody. Finally, we discuss the developments in the use of Telehealth in the provision of services to couples and families.

Educational Objectives:

1. State at least three risk factors faced by couples counselors.
2. List at least two approaches to family “secrets” in couples counseling.
3. Name an author of at least one book or research paper in the area of couples counseling.
4. Name at least one organization devoted to the training of couples Counselors.

2.0 ethics clock hours

Open to all levels

Description:

This six-hour program seeks to provide information and recommendations for mental health professionals whose work includes the assessment and treatment of couples and families. The program begins with an update on legal and ethical developments that affect providers, and then moves to a discussion of risk management strategies for clinicians, including the most critical issues faced by clinicians in their work. We continue with important issues concerning confidentiality and “secrets” in couples and family therapy. The program then moves to a discussion of licensing Board complaints against couples and family therapists, starting with information that includes the fact that the highest frequency of board complaints involves conflicts regarding child custody. Finally, we discuss the developments in the use of Telehealth in the provision of services to couples and families.

Educational Objectives:

1. State at least three risk factors faced by couples counselors.
2. List at least two approaches to family “secrets” in couples counseling.
3. Name an author of at least one book or research paper in the area of couples counseling.
4. Name at least one organization devoted to the training of couples Counselors.

Not for Credit

Not for Credit

1.0 credit

Open to all levels

Description:

Each faculty member will present basic principles for their model to help the audience understand the strengths of the model: Developmental, Gottman, and Relational.

Educational Objectives:

1. Developmental: Select stage-appropriate treatment plans for couples at different developmental stages.
2. Gottman: Describe the value of assessment and the basic structure of Sound Relationship House Theory.
3. Relational: Describe the art of joining through the truth- confrontation so loving that our clients trust us more because of it.

2.0 credits

Fundamental Level

Description:

Join Ellyn Bader as she provides a solid introduction to The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. This model enables you to make a targeted assessment of what’s wrong and then select stage-specific interventions based on the developmental capacities your clients are lacking. Learn to move your clients from hurt, bitterness and outrage to collaboration, openness and increased accountability. Ellyn will use video demos and transcripts to reveal the power of this model.

Educational Objectives:

1. Integrate Attachment and Differentiation Theory and Apply these to Couples Development.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of basic neuroscience to explain couples fight patterns.
3. Diagnose the couples stage of development.
4. Define differentiation and demonstrate why it matters.
5. Control and contain conflict in your office.
6. Develop targeted treatment plans for hostile/fighting couples and conflict avoiding couples.

2.0 credits

Fundamental Level

Description:

Particular attention will be given to working with couples displaying two patterns of dysfunction: escalation and avoidance.

Educational Objectives:

1. Assess dysfunctional conflict patterns in couples.
2. Identify the “Four Horseman” and their destructive effect on couples.
3. Identify “Diffuse Physiological Arousal (DPA)” and its negative effect on relationships.
4. Describe how to use effective interventions with escalating couples to interrupt the “Four Horsemen” and DPA.
5. Describe how to identify conflict avoidant couples.
6. Describe how to increase positive conflict conversations with avoidant couples.

2.0 credits

Fundamental Level

Description:

Relational Life Therapy (RLT) produces deep, lasting change in couples quickly by breaking many cherished couple’s therapy rules. We take sides, for example. Not all problems are fifty-fifty. We judiciously self-disclose. We’re in it with you. We work with trauma in each partner, doing deep individual work in the presence of one another. We pay close attention to gender – the unique characteristics of men and women in our culture and how those differences collide. We work with issues of both shame and also of grandiosity. We explicitly address power imbalances, and rebalance them.

Through lecture, demonstration, and video excerpts of real sessions, workshop participants will learn how to join through the truth, the art of holding the mirror up to our clients in ways that not only leave them feeling you are on their side, but that you are actively rooting for them.

Educational Objectives:

1. Identify the systemic dynamic, the repeating vicious circle, the couple is stuck in.
2. Identify each partner’s self-defeating stance, (angry pursuer), their contribution to the dynamic between them.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the clear map of the repeating loop the couple is mired in.
4. Utilize their relational diagnosis to wake them up to their patterns of dysfunction and wish to connect.

1.0 credit

Open to all levels

Description:

The course of treatment in Relational Life Therapy has three phases. The first I call: waking up our clients. And the core technique of this phase is joining through the truth, the art of loving confrontation. The second phase is Family of Origin Work. And the core technique of this phase is Inner Child and other forms of trauma work. The third phase is Education, arming our clients with a new relational vision and a host of sophisticated, practical skills to achieve their dreams of a long-term truly intimate relationship.

Relational Life Therapy produces deep, permanent change quickly by focusing simultaneously on the individuals in the relationship, the dynamic of the relationship itself, and the cultural context for both.

Educational Objectives:

1. Describe the technique of joining through the truth.
2. Analyze the three phases of RLT.
3. Articulate the current cultural context for relationships and for therapy.

2.0 credits

Fundamental Level

Description:

Join Ellyn Bader as she provides a solid introduction to The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. This model enables you to make a targeted assessment of what’s wrong and then select stage-specific interventions based on the developmental capacities your clients are lacking. Learn to move your clients from hurt, bitterness and outrage to collaboration, openness and increased accountability. Ellyn will use video demos and transcripts to reveal the power of this model.

Educational Objectives:

1. Integrate Attachment and Differentiation Theory and Apply these to Couples Development.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of basic neuroscience to explain couples fight patterns.
3. Diagnose the couples stage of development.
4. Define differentiation and demonstrate why it matters.
5. Control and contain conflict in your office.
6. Develop targeted treatment plans for hostile/fighting couples and conflict avoiding couples.

2.0 credits

Fundamental Level

Description:

Particular attention will be given to working with couples displaying two patterns of dysfunction: escalation and avoidance.

Educational Objectives:

1. Assess dysfunctional conflict patterns in couples.
2. Identify the “Four Horseman” and their destructive effect on couples.
3. Identify “Diffuse Physiological Arousal (DPA)” and its negative effect on relationships.
4. Describe how to use effective interventions with escalating couples to interrupt the “Four Horsemen” and DPA.
5. Describe how to identify conflict avoidant couples.
6. Describe how to increase positive conflict conversations with avoidant couples.

2.0 credits

Fundamental Level

Description:

Relational Life Therapy (RLT) produces deep, lasting change in couples quickly by breaking many cherished couple’s therapy rules. We take sides, for example. Not all problems are fifty-fifty. We judiciously self-disclose. We’re in it with you. We work with trauma in each partner, doing deep individual work in the presence of one another. We pay close attention to gender – the unique characteristics of men and women in our culture and how those differences collide. We work with issues of both shame and also of grandiosity. We explicitly address power imbalances, and rebalance them.

Through lecture, demonstration, and video excerpts of real sessions, workshop participants will learn how to join through the truth, the art of holding the mirror up to our clients in ways that not only leave them feeling you are on their side, but that you are actively rooting for them.

Educational Objectives:

1. Identify the systemic dynamic, the repeating vicious circle, the couple is stuck in.
2. Identify each partner’s self-defeating stance, (angry pursuer), their contribution to the dynamic between them.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the clear map of the repeating loop the couple is mired in.
4. Utilize their relational diagnosis to wake them up to their patterns of dysfunction and wish to connect.

Not for Credit