Your Time With Couples and Families is Brief: Make It Count!
Statistics indicate that most couples and families only attend therapy an average of 5 – 8 times. If you are to be effective, you need to hit the ground running. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to do exactly that. Quickly set goals and shape the first session, build rapport and assess, develop treatment maps for common couple and family presenting problems, and use homework. We'll walk through the opening sessions, tell you what to do, and more importantly what not to do. If you are new to couple and family therapy, this will provide a model on which to build. If you are experienced, you'll leave feeling challenged and creative.
Course Content
THINKING BRIEF
• Characteristics and challenges
• Goals
• Counterindications
4 ESSENTIALS OF BOOT CAMP APPROACH
• Action-oriented
• Clear goals
• Use of homework
• Tracking process
BOWEN’S DIFFERENTIATED SELF
• Lines of responsibility
• Emotional regulation
IDEAL FAMILY – STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY MODEL
• Ideal model
• Dysfunctional variations
SOURCES OF RESISTANCE
• No agreed problem/solution
• Different expectations
• Pacing
• Igniting childhood wounds
o Assessment through transference
o Complementarity/tolerance
CHANGING EMOTIONAL CLIMATE
• Tapping soft emotions
• Use of education
• Ideal voice
FIRST SESSION PROCESS
• Rapport/opening
• Assessment
• Changing climate
• Presenting treatment plan
COMMON TREATMENT MAPS
• Affairs
• Addictions
• Violent couples/families
• Stale couples
• Polarized parents
• Adolescent conflicts
This course has been approved by , as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 2 continuing education hour(s). NAADAC Provider #77600, is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Content includes elements of one of the NAADAC 8 Counselor Skills Group. Full attendance is required to receive credit, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the NAADAC guidelines.
The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 2.0 hours of continuing education credit.
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This educational offering consists of 2.0 clock hour(s) of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this offering and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
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is an approved sponsor of continuing education for licensed professional counselors through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (Provider number 2709). This course is offered for 2 clock hour(s).
The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 2.0 hours of continuing education credit.
This educational offering consists of 2.0 clock hour(s) of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this offering and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This program is approved for 2 continuing education credit(s).
is a registered marriage and family therapist continuing education sponsor approved through the State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (license # 168-000172). This program is offered for two (2) contact hour(s) of continuing education for marriage and family therapist. Licensed marriage and family therapist in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.
Vyne Education, LLC., is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0020. This educational offering is acceptable for 2 continuing education hour(s). Full attendance is required to receive credit for Marriage and Family Therapists; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.
is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This program is offered for two (2) clock hour(s) of continuing education for counselors and marriage family therapists. Licensed counselors and marriage and family therapists in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.
is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This program is offered for 2 continuing education hour(s).
is an approved sponsor of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider number 195). This course is offered for 2 clock hour(s).
This educational offering qualifies for 2 continuing education hour(s) as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.
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The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 2.0 hours of continuing education credit.
is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This program is approved for 2 continuing education credit(s).
, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed Social Workers #0043. This educational offering is acceptable for 2 continuing education hour(s). Full attendance is required to receive credit for Social Workers; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.
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Robert Taibbi, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 40 years' experience primarily in community mental health working with couples and families as a clinician, supervisor and clinical director. Bob is the author of Clinical Supervision: A Four– Stage Process of Growth and Discovery and Clinical Social Work Supervision.
Bob is the author of four other books: Doing Couples Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners; Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice, now in its 3rd edition and recently translated into Chinese and Portuguese; Boot Camp Therapy: Action–Oriented Brief Treatment of Anxiety, Anger & Depression, and the forthcoming The Art of the First Session.
Bob is also an online columnist for Psychotherapy Today magazine, has published over 300 magazine and journal articles, and has contributed several book chapters including Favorite Counseling Techniques: 55 Masters Share Their Secrets, which cited him among the top 100 therapists in the country. He served as teen advice columnist for Current Health, a contributing editor to Your Health and Fitness, and has received three national writing awards for Best Consumer Health Writing.
Bob is a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina, and has served as adjunct professor at several universities. He provides trainings nationally and internationally in the areas of supervision, couple therapy, family therapy, and brief therapy. He is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
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