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Program Description This 6-hour seminar will provide you with the nuts and bolts of Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies in your work with couples. Dr. Dattilio describes ways to integrate CBT techniques and strategies into your clinical practice. Objectives This seminar will enable you to describe: • Effective cognitive-behavioral techniques for working with challenging couples • Core schemas and the cognitive distortions that affect relationship dysfunction • When to use cognitive vs. behavioral techniques • Effective methods of clinical assessment and ways to formulate a plan of intervention • When cognitive-behavioral techniques are inappropriate • How to maintain cultural sensitivity • How to deal with roadblocks and resistance to change • How to address the potential for relapse Topics Covered Historical Development of CBT with Couples • Cognitive-Behavioral strategies with couples • Cognition, affect, and behavior • Combined perspectives within a systems framework • Role of attachment and issues of vulnerability • Role of core beliefs & schemas - multimodal dimensions • Video clip Assessment Techniques and Case Conceptualization • Conjoint and individual interviews • Use of surveys, questionnaires, and assessment measures • Development of case conceptualization, including dysfunctional automatic thoughts • Assessing personality and other disorders • Orienting couples to the CB systemic model Techniques and Procedures for Couples • Identifying automatic thoughts, underlying schemas, maladaptive assumptions, and cognitive distortions • Using the Daily Dysfunctional Thought Record • Identifying negative frame and ingrained beliefs • Weighing evidence & challenging automatic thoughts • Using new evidence • Alternative explanations and behavioral followthrough • Reframing/restructuring thoughts, belief systems,schemas Behavioral Techniques • Cultural sensitivity • Integration of cognitive-behavioral strategies with other modalities of couples therapy
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