(CSW Abb1)Couples Therapy: Teaching Communication Strategies

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Couple's Therapy Strategies for Intimacy and Togetherness; Couple's Entanglement with their Partner; Couple's Therapy, Optimizing the Therapeutic Alliance; Invalidation that Undermines Communication; Couple's 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; and Resistance to Interpersonal Enjoyment with Couples.