Description:
OPD Points: 10
- Overcome fears and insecurities about working with hostile or conflict-avoidant couples. Feel confident that you can handle couples’ anger.
- Avoid the common traps that couples therapists fall into.
- Make your couples sessions work for your clients, instead of against them.
- Create developmental growth in each partner and avoid having clients who tell their friends and colleagues, “All that therapist did is let us fight”.
- Manage your own “anger triggers” and establish greater control in the therapy room.
- Feel confident and proud knowing that you’re helping couples resolve anger successfully.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
This online course includes:
- Downloadable videos and audios of each module
- Transcripts of each module
- PDF copy of the slides for each module
- Worksheets for each module
- Exercises and handouts for each module
- Certificate for 10 professional development hours (upon successful completion of a short quiz)
Course outline:
- Module 1: Overview of The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy (90 minutes)
- Module 2: How to Work with Hostile Angry Couples (90 minutes)
- Module 3: How to Work with Conflict-Avoidant Couples (90 minutes)
- 2 Pre-recorded Q&A sessions with Dr. Bader (120 minutes)
Bonuses
- Rethinking First Sessions with Dr. Peter Pearson [Audio & Transcript]
- Dealing with Affairs with Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson [Audio and Transcript]
- How to Work with Anger and Addiction in Couples Therapy – Juliet Austin Interviews Therapist, Sue Diamond Potts [Video, Audio & Transcript]
- Working with Gay Men in Couples Therapy with Clinton Power [Video, Audio & Transcript]
Assessment:
Presenter / Provider:
Dr. Ellyn Bader
Presenter Qualifications:
PhD
Dr. Bader is co-founder of The Developmental Model, is Internationally Recognized as a Leader in Couples Therapy Training.
Ellyn has trained thousands of couples therapists across North America, Australia, Europe and South America. She is also the author of 2 successful books.
Ellyn’s textbook, In Quest of the Mythical Mate, is now in its 18th printing. It has been used in graduate schools in the US and Canada since 1988. It won the Clark Vincent Award from the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists for its outstanding contribution to the field of marital therapy.
Ellyn and her husband, Peter have successfully been practicing couples therapy for over 30 years.
Registration Instructions:
Registration for the advanced course with Dr. Bader is open until 31 May, 2025.
Click here to register for the advanced course: https://theaca–mbti.thrivecart.com/couples-course-usd/5898f85b16d95/
And if you would like to sign up for the free training series with Dr. Bader before purchasing the advanced course, click the link below (registration for the free training expires on 7 May, 2025)
https://theaca–mbti.thrivecart.com/couples-course-usd/589146fd6901f/
