Coupling AND UNcoupling: Helping Couples Decide Whether to Divorce
3 Hours, 0 Minutes
Previously Recorded
Joy A. Dryer, Ph.D.
Price
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$59.99 USD
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Description
How do therapists best help partners through one of the most challenging transitions of their lives?
Join PACT faculty Joy Dryer, PhD Clinical Psychologist and Certified Divorce Mediator, for an interactive workshop that breaks new ground in applying PACT’s principles to the separation or divorce process. Dr. Joy integrates
Participants will learn how transference and countertransference can be applied to their own clinical intuition. Dr. Joy shows how creating a neutral “third space” helps partners more effectively communicate, regulate emotions, and manage conflict and difference with compassion. Attendees will gain practical tools to help couples ask the right questions and together decide the direction of their relationship, whether to remain coupled or to UNcouple.
Dr. Joy will present a case example and then guide participants in exploring the complexities of their own cases, helping clinicians apply the same principles. Through lecture, discussion, Q&A, and small group breakout rooms, clinicians will learn how to better support clients through one of life’s most difficult transitions.
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About the Presenter:
Trainer, Joy Dryer, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and a Divorce Mediator. She works with individuals, couples, and families, and maintains a private practice in NYC and New Paltz New York. As a retired Adjunct Associate Professor in NYU’s Master Psychology program, she continues to teach and to supervise. Dr. Joy specializes in couples therapy using PACT, Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy. She integrates PACT’s powerful principles in her divorce mediation work where she often focuses on helping couples decide whether to stay, or to separate.
Learning Objectives:
- Name 3 assessment tools and how each helps the PACT therapist assess if both partners are committed to working on improving their relationship, OR if one or both is really headed out the door/ is considering uncoupling. [ECR-R, DAS, WAI]
- Describe 3 secure functioning criteria that the PACT therapist uses to help the couple decide whether to work on staying IN the relationship, or to work on separating/ uncoupling. [Team Shared Purpose, Theory of Mind, Mutual Regulation]
- Identify the 3 separation processes that couples can choose among. [Mediation, Collab. Divorce, Litigation].
Agenda:
AGENDA:
INTRO: What is PACT? what is RDT? How these theories integrate to help couples decide to stay or to separate? (20 min)
ASSESSING: three main types of tensions that arise in relationships:
- Autonomy vs. connection: The tension between wanting independence / separation and wanting to be close to others/ intimacy.
- Openness vs. closeness: The tension between wanting to share personal information/ express oneself and wanting to set boundaries/ be private.
- Predictability vs. novelty: The tension between wanting stability and wanting change and excitement
- Show video of Couple #1 (10 min.) and Q & A & discuss above criteria (30)
DECIDING: Secure functioning principles: Shared purpose, Theory of Mind, Mutual Regulation
Show video of Couple #2 (10 min.) and Q & A & discuss above criteria (30)
REFERRING (separation options): How to keep the Third Space of contradiction and loss
Show video of Couple #3 (10 min.) and Q & A & discuss above criteria (30)
Review & Summation. (20 min)
Final Q & A & discussion (20)
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an introductory level, and is beneficial for a beginner level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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