CBT for Couples: A Practical Introduction

What is this webinar about?

The joy, support, excitement and sense of validation and growth afforded by relationships sits alongside the potential pain, hurt, disappointments and even abuse that adult romantic attachments can bring. But what help can therapists offer when a couple come to counselling? What are the key techniques and practical skills that be brought to bear to help clients find their best way forward? This webinar will offer an introduction to the key approaches, principles and techniques in contemporary practice and the latest findings from relevant research.

Key Topics (indicative)

1. The Scale and Scope of Relationship difficulties and Couples Counselling
2. Similarities and Differences with individual therapy
3. Assessment, Treatment Planning, and Therapeutic Goals
4. Types of Challenges and associated therapeutic interventions
5. 'Mixed' agenda couples (Doherty)
6. Communication & Conflict Issues
7. Intimacy & Trust Issues
8. Treatment approaches and techniques
9. Shared Responsibility
10. Relationship activities
11. Appreciative Inquiry & Naikan Reflection
12. Compassion in Relationships
13. Summary

CPD

A CPD Certificate of Attendance confirming 2 hour skills CPD is available free to all delegates who attend.

Facilitator

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.