The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Integrating Neuroscience, Attachment, and Differentiation
Beginning Tuesday 18 September, 2018
Course highlights include:
- Overview of the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy
- Five Couples Stages: how recognising each stage helps the therapist to provide effective treatment
- Couples Assessment Tools: taking a developmental history
- Effective and Ineffective Goals
- Failed Differentiation: hostile-dependent and conflict-avoidant couples
- Helping Couples Develop Effective Communication through Psycheducation
- The Initiator-Inquirer Process
- Working Actively with Breakdowns in each Role
- The Role of Empathy in Increasing Partners’ Differentiation
- When and how to work intrapsychically with partners
This course will include written lessons, case presentations, video demonstrations, and time for questions and discussion.
- Create increased cooperation between partners before your first meeting
- Inspire clients as they are forming their first impressions of couples therapy
- Get off to a powerful start
- Know how to use the right intervention – and at what time
- Understand the importance of differentiation
- Recognise four attachment styles and the underlying causes of their distress
- Integrate theory with practical applications
- Map out effective treatment plans
Here is a recent interview with Ellyn: