Couples Counseling: Effective Techniques to Create Harmony and Strengthen Relationships

Complete Seminar Details

Don't miss this workshop to discover expanded outlets for your current skills and learn new strategies you can apply to your most difficult cases

Many couples become conditioned with day-to-day interactions, positive and negative. Most of these interactions are laughed off, others build to arguments, and then some become dangerous. Conditioning often develops from the environment of attitudes and reactions a person is subjected to while growing up. This can result in both admirable traits and adverse carryovers to their own adult relationships. Many individuals enter therapy in a state of despair, hopelessness and helplessness. Oftentimes therapy is a last resort when one person is walking out of the relationship.

Where do you begin? What strategy is best for each couple? How do you establish a therapeutic focus and goal? What should be done when couples fight in the session or when one of them walks out? Do you share the blame when a couple's relationship doesn't work? Is taking sides appropriate? When should another professional be called in?

This one-day seminar will help you become more effective in your interactions with clients. New types of therapy will be discussed, as well as how they apply to couples, their circumstances, and their conflicts. Included will be looking at the cultures of today's couples and media portrayal, therapist approaches, group discussion of case presentations, and hands-on techniques. Don't miss this workshop to discover expanded outlets for your current skills and learn new strategies you can immediately apply to even your most difficult cases.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Physicians
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychiatric Nurses
• Licensed Professional Counselors
• Case Managers
• Pediatricians
• Social Workers
• Youth Pastors
• Pastoral Counselors
• Substance Abuse Counselors
• Juvenile Probation Officers

WHAT YOU WILL COVER

• Identify common mistakes made in couple's therapy
• Discover how to help couples raise their emotional IQ
• Develop new strategies and skills to help initiate growth, understanding, and commitment for married, remarried, same sex and cross-cultural couples
• Confront the turmoil of infidelity, tantrums, verbal abuse, physical abuse, addiction, psychiatric disorders and divorce
• Determine how to plan and direct session goals
• Assess the developmental model, understand what it brings to the relationship and discover how to move a couple through the process
• Identify relationship myths: overexpectations, role expectations and neglecting expectations
• Determine whether individual or couple's counseling would be more effective
• Identify how to develop strategies and a treatment plan
• Assess the individual's desires for commitment to the relationship
• Discuss how to empower couples to parent together
• Examine working with blended families
• Identify common mistakes made in couple's therapy
• Discover how to help couples raise their emotional IQ
• Develop new strategies and skills to help initiate growth, understanding and commitment for married, remarried, same sex and cross-cultural couples
• Confront the turmoil of infidelity, tantrums, verbal abuse, physical abuse, addiction, psychiatric disorders and divorce
• Assess the developmental model, understand what it brings to the relationship and learn how to move a couple through the process

Sponsor Background:

Leading the Way in Professional Development.

Cross Country Education is a national leader in high-quality educational products and services for the entire health care industry. Our seminars and training programs are designed to help health care providers achieve improved performance and results in all areas of clinical, financial and operational management. Our faculty of more than 150 instructors are the "best of the best" in their field of expertise and know how to provide programs that really make a difference to participants.

Since 1995, we have trained over 1,000,000 providers, managers, nurses, behavioral health professionals and other key personnel throughout the entire healthcare industry. We produce over 5,000 seminars and conferences annually for the health care industry. Plus, we coordinate in-house training for health care facilities. Let us provide your training and professional education needs!

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“CCE exists to identify and provide opportunities for relevant continuing education in a timely and geographically friendly manner that will meet and exceed the needs and expectations of targeted professionals.”