Couple Power Therapy: Building Commitment, Cooperation, Communications, and Community in Relationships

5 CE Credits 40 Test Items
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Conventional couples therapy focuses on correcting specific relationship problems, but this method is often limited because it does not result in lasting improvement. In Couple Power Therapy: Building Commitment, Cooperation, Communication, and Community in Relationships, Drs. Sheras and Koch-Sheras introduce the Couple Power Therapy model, an exciting new approach in which partners cocreate a unified vision for their relationship. These seasoned couples therapists use a series of sequential tasks to teach the partners how to transcend their individual identities to nurture "the couple as entity," in effect, crafting a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. This shifts the paradigm away from the therapist's responsibility for success to the couple’s responsibility, from the more negative emphasis of focusing on problems to a more positive goal of creating a fulfilling relationship, and from a quick fix to lifelong development skills.

This course is designed to help you:

1. Utilize the concept of the couple as a single entity in working with clients;
2. Identify the four major tasks to be accomplished for creating and sustaining healthy relationships, and be able to use them to assess a couple's current level of functioning;
3. Perform the process of creating a "couple proclamation" to establish couple commitment;
4. Utilize a variety of techniques to facilitiate cooperation and teamwork in client couples;
5. Identify several new and/or existing methods for enhancing couple communication and to use them appropriately in couples treatment;
6. Understand and apply methods for creating both vertical and horizontal community support groups for couples; and
7. Identify cultural, client and therapist obstacles to successful treatment of couples.

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