Events

VAMFT Conference - September 22, 2006

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William Doherty, Ph.D.
Bad and Good Couples' Therapy:
How to Avoid the First and Do the Second
September 22, 2006
Fredericksburg Expo Center
2371 Carl D. Silver Parkway
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
(540) 548-0550

Most workshops focus only on what to do to make therapy effective. But we all know that mistakes are common in therapy and particularly in couples' therapy which Jay Haley once said is the most difficult of all therapy to do well. This workshop will have something for both beginning and experienced therapists, each of whom tends to make different mistakes. Since therapists destroy their most self-incriminating tapes, the best examples of bad couples' therapy, comes from films. Several clips will be shown and analyzed, along with gripping real case video of a woman pondering whether to her family or go off with her lover. The workshop will also describe how therapists' values about committment influence work with couples, for better or worse, and how we mess up so frequently (and could do better) with remarried couples.

This highly practical workshop will make your marriage and couples' therapy more effective, whatever your model.

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