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Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners

by Robert Taibbi, LCSW

CE Credits: 10 CE Credit Hours

Book and Test: $115

Test Only: $100

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Couple therapy is fraught with unpredictable situations and can be intimidating to the best of therapists. This book offers the nuts and bolts of how to move through the phases of treatment, including presenting problems and assessment, skill building, resolution of core issues and successful termination.

Robert Taibbi provides insights and interventions for couples who are experiencing a crisis and those who have ongoing conflicts. Power struggles around sex, money children and other areas are addressed. He offers an understanding of problems from a developmental perspective, looking at challenges in the early years, raising children, stepfamilies, empty-nest years and old age. In the course of therapy, the couple is provided with opportunities to experience change and create a new vision of themselves and each other.

Throughout, Taibbi shows the clinician that couple therapy is not a straightforward process. The therapist's courage, leadership and creativity allow the couple's fears, emotional triggers and stagnation to be handled in a safe environment. Attention is also given to helping therapists deal with their own emotional responses and encouraging practitioners to develop their strengths and personal style.

This is a highly readable, practical guide, rich with clinical wisdom and illustrative case examples.

(269pp.)

Robert Taibbi, LCSW, has 35 years experience as a clinician, supervisor and clinical director. He is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. The author of Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice and Clinical Supervision: A Four-Stage Process of Growth and Discovery, he has also published over 150 magazine and journal articles. Taibbi provides training nationally on couple and family therapy, clinical supervision, and treatment of emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.

Contents Include:

Theoretical Foundation and Overview
The Basics: Clinical Goals and Tasks
Beginnings: Presentations, Assessments, and Goals
Beginnings in Action
Clearing the Clutter: Improving Communication Skills
Drilling Down: Core Issues
Termination
Of Money, Sex, and Children: Handling the Power Issues
The Challenges of Early Years
Re-creating the Vision
Battle and Loss: Managing the Teenage Years
One Big Happy Family: Working with Stepfamilies
The Challenges of Old Age
One Helping Two, Two Helping One: Working with Individuals in Relationships
Life in the Details: The Nuts and Bolts of Couple Therapy

Number of Test Questions:

55 objective, 1 discussion question

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

identify the theoretical foundation of the author's integrative model.
describe the "Basic Four" core tasks that form all sessions.
recognize key goals in the beginning and the focus of the initial assessment.
help the couple improve communication skills.
identify and address the couple's core dynamic.
recognize when and how to end therapy.
handle the power issues of sex, money and children.
identify developmental challenges at different stages of the couple's relationship, from early years to old age.
work with an individual as a change agent for the relationship.
recognize the role of a good supervisor at different points in the therapist's learning process.

Level:

This course is appropriate for all levels of experience, including beginning, intermediate and advanced practitioners.

Target Audience:

Psychologists, Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Pastoral Counselors who work in a variety of clinical settings with couples.

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