Priority Setting in Couples Therapy:

The Family FIRO Model

1 CEU $50

Priority setting with multiproblem couples and families is one of the trickiest parts of being a therapist. Start with the wrong issue and you get bogged down and may not know why. Using an adaptation of Schutz’s FIRO model for group development, this workshop will give you a way to set priorities when working with complex couples. The priority sequence—inclusions issues before control issues, and control issues before intimacy issues—is one that many experienced therapists use implicitly, but there advantages of doing it explicitly and using therapy models based on their strengths in one of these three core issues. You will find this workshop highly practical for all of your work with couples and families.

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Bill has interviewed most of the Marriage and Family Therapy founders, creates material for the APA

Couples on the Brink 2.5 CEU's

The most critical life decision most therapists deal with in their everyday practice is helping couples decide whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it. Nevertheless few of us have had specific training in assisting an ambivalent couple on the brink of divorce. Learn more & buy

Bill Doherty

Using the Family FIRO Model - 1 CEU

Priority setting with multiproblem couples and families is one of the tricky. Start with the wrong issue and you get bogged down not knowing why. Using an adaptation of Schutz’s FIRO model, you'll get a way to set priorities when working with complex couples. Learn more & buy

Remarriage

Working with Remarried Couples in Stepfamilies - 2 CEUs

Remarried couples in stepfamilies may get the worst treatment of any family form because many couples therapists don’t have special ways to work with them. For example, you can’t help most remarried couples without dealing with coparenting in a major way .Learn more & buy

Bad and Good Couples Therapy

We know mistakes are common in therapy, and particularly in marriage couples therapy, which Jay Haley once said is the most difficult of all types of therapy to do well. We will identify the most common screw-ups therapists make and demonstrate ways to avoid them.

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How Experienced Therapists Undermine Marriage

Some therapists, even those technically skilled, undermine marital commitment. They pathologize couples relationships, taking the side of the spouse learning “out” of the marriage, and by using slogans (“I’m not here to save marriages—I’m hear to help people.”) Learn more & buy

CD VERSION

“To Divorce Or Work On The Marriage: A Protocol For Working With Ambivalent Clients” No CEU's

This presentation will give you a protocol for helping clients make a decision that has integrity for all involved and that improves the odds that couples will try to heal their broken bond. Learn more & buy

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