Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges

What you'll learn

• Describe two practices to invite couple members to work on their part of the problem pattern that prevents them from living their preferred lives

• Identify two micro and two macro recursive steps of the Collaborative Change Model that can be used with couples in which trauma is a factor

• Outline three strategies to avoid reflexively siding with an individual client’s view of the relationship

• List three concepts from the Single Session Therapy Approach that will enrich their current clinical work with couples

• Describe two interventions related using one’s own personal life to strengthen and deepen one’s clinical skills with couples