(CSW)Couples Therapy: Teaching Communication Strategies

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Couples Therapy Strategies for Intimacy and Togetherness; Couples Entanglement with their Partner; Couples Therapy, Optimizing the Therapeutic Alliance; Invalidation that Undermines Communication; Couples Communications and Filters that Affect Perceptions; Communication Strategy, the Speaker-Listener Technique; Arguments Caused by Disengaged Couple Communications; Marital and Relationship Problem Solving; Problem-Solving Behaviors and Relationship Satisfaction; Arguments, Vulnerability, and Impasses; Conflict Management, Resistance, and Unresolved Conflicts; Resistance to Interpersonal Enjoyment with Couples; Couples Intimacy Conflicts; Forgiveness in Married Couples; Couple Assessment Summary: A Bridge from Assessment to Treatment; Escaping the Blame Frame: Experimental Techniques with Couples; An Introduction to Action Methods in Couples/Family Therapy; An Introduction to Counseling Intercultural Couples; Prep School & The Love Lab in Couples Therapy; Sex Therapy with Couples; Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy; Barriers to a Loving Relationship; Action Methods Used in Couples/ Family Therapy; Stages of Couple Development; Psychotherapy with Intercultural Couples; and Negotiation and Other Ways of Resolving Conflict.