Day 1 - Moving from individual work with clients to couple relationship work: The changing lens

Topics:

• Understanding ethical and legal responsibilities in couple work.
• Using micro-skills differently for distress and empowerment.
• Understanding triangulation and bias issues.
• Using negotiation and mediation skills.
• Conflict management.

Day 2 - Understanding the dynamics in couple relationships: What happens to the space between the adults?

Topics:

• Navigating any tension between couples.
• Adult attachment issues and their derivatives.
• The uncoupling dynamic.
• Distress cycles.
• Motivation to change – intervention strategies.
• Consideration of interventions:
• Narrative therapy
• Single sessions and solution-focused work
• Emotionally focused therapy
• Acceptance and commitment therapy
• Family systems therapy
• Understanding diagnoses in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V and their contribution to dysfunctional and functional coupling.

Day 3 - Understanding the dynamics in the counselling session/room: What do you see?

Topics:

• Structuring the session: The beginning, middle and ending
• Risk assessment and management
• Family violence and trauma-informed practice
• Micro-skills in sessions
• Checking in between sessions
• Ending services respectfully
• Referrals.

Day 4 - Working with diverse clients: Language and perception

Consider the differing approaches when working with:

• Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
• Same-sex couples
• Neurodiverse clients
• Couples in single session contact
• Polyamorous couples
• Couples from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• Separated couples
• Couples living together but apart
• Re-partnered couples
• Forced marriage couples
• Arranged marriage couples
• Couples impacted by trauma and/or family violence.

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