9170: Working With Couples in Conflict (2 audio)

About the Course:

Recorded live at a therapists’ training workshop, with actors reenacting an actual case, Dr. Heitler shows how to handle challenging therapy situations. The therapy situations range from resolving a specific dilemma faced by a healthier couple to helping couples whose entrenched conflict patterns yield continual distancing, depression, or strife. These lively and informative tapes are ideal for training in marital and family therapy, for peer consultation sessions, for practitioners of individual therapy who want to expand their practices by offering couple treatment, and for busy clinicians who use audiotapes while driving to upgrade their treatment skills.

Author

Heilter, Susan, Ph.D.

About the Authors:

Dr. Heitler, a graduate of Harvard, earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from NYU. She and her husband, married over 25 years, have enjoyed raising four children, now young adults. In addition to her clinical practice Dr. Heitler has taught on the adjunct faculty at the University of Denver School of Professional Psychology, continues to write books and articles, and travels nationwide presenting workshops on therapy skills for state psychological associations and mental health professional conferences.

Course Objectives:

1. To be able to frame a conceptual map of couple treatment

2. To be able to apply techniques for access to deeper underlying issues and strategies for guiding resolution of couple conflicts.

3. To be able to describe ways to take charge when couples erupt in anger at each other within a session.