POR201 - The Psychology of Relationships: Promoting Intimacy with Couples, Children and Adolescents 4 CE Credits

Course overview

The quest for intimacy often brings people into therapy, and therapists are expected to provide not only a psychologically intimate experience but also to help clients achieve intimacy in their lives outside the therapy hour. This course examines the different kinds of intimacy therapists experience with their clients and are expected to promote between couples, and between parents and children. The course presents ideas and techniques to use with, and teach to, clients so that they can experience intimacy and enhance their relationships with their mates and children. The course also includes information on the too-often neglected field of intimacy with wheel-chair bound people. This intermediate level course, consisting of six podcast interviews (transcripts provided), presents a variety of orientations and treatments, all with the common goal of opening clinicians' hearts and minds to the rich dynamics of relationships.