Level 2 Outline

Level 2: Assessment, Intervention, & Co-Morbidities

Live Workshop Outline

Four days: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM (PST)
DAY ONE

INTRODUCTION & OBSERVATIONS

  • Three qualities every therapist needs: perception, empathy, creative intervention

BASICS OF OBSERVATION

  • Emotions in the human face
  • Tension in the voice
  • The words themselves
  • Dissociating behavior
  • SPAFF test tape

BIDS AND TURNING

  • Overview and research demonstration film

ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

  • First session: Narrative, oral history interview, conflict evaluation
  • Second session(s): Individual interviews
  • Third session: Summary and treatment planning

FRIENDSHIP PROFILE: ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW

  • The spirit and content of the interview
  • Questions in the interview
  • Coding notes
  • OHI demonstration film

FRIENDSHIP PROFILE: MEANING AND META-EMOTION

  • The meaning interview
  • Meta-emotion interview
  • Meta-emotion demonstration film

CONFLICT PROFILE

  • Setting up and evaluating conflict discussion
  • Symbolic conflict (role play)
  • Repair
  • Video-taping and physiological reading

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER – CLIENT SESSION #1

  • Demonstration Film
  • Role-play assessment session 1

CLIENT SESSION #2 – INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEW

  • Overview and demonstration film

GOTTMAN METHOD CORE ASSESSMENTS

  • Clinicians’ checklist for relationship assessment
  • Locke Wallace
  • Weiss Cerretto
  • Gottman Sound Relationship House questionnaires
  • Gottman 18 areas checklist
  • Emotional abuse questionnaire (EAQ)
  • SCL-90
  • Conflict tactics scale – 2
  • Supplemental assessments

DISCUSSION, QUESTION & ANSWERS WITH PRESENTERS
DAY TWO

CLIENT SESSION #3 – SUMMARY AND TREATMENT PLANNING

  • Sound Relationship House – Review and summarizing for couples assessment
  • Research film – The masters and disasters of marriage
  • Making a plan
  • Demonstration film – treatment plan

INTERVENTION OVERVIEW

  • Philosophy of the therapy – Six assumptions
  • Additional minor assumptions
  • Seven goals of couples therapy
  • Recommended structure of a couples therapy session

LIBRARY OF INTERVENTIONS – MANAGING CONFLICT (including presentations, demonstrations, film, and audience participation in interactive role-play practice session)

  • Process – Didactic description
  • The Dreams-Within-Conflict intervention
  • Label the Four Horsemen and replace them with their antidotes
  • Stuck in Attack/defend mode? Anatol Rapaport antidote to criticism
  • Attack/defend mode? Softened start-up exercise as antidote to criticism and contempt
  • Dan Wile exercise
  • Dealing with DPA – Physiological soothing to deal with flooding

DISCUSSION, QUESTION & ANSWERS WITH PRESENTERS
DAY THREE

INTERVENTIONS – MANAGING CONFLICT (including presentations, demonstrations, film, and audience participation in interactive role-play practice session)

  • Attack/defend & video playback
  • Aftermath of a fight
  • Anatomy of a fight and internal working model
  • Repair checklist
  • Steps towards compromise

INTERVENTIONS – STRENGTHENING FRIENDSHIP AND ROMANCE (including presentations, demonstrations, film, and audience participation in interactive role-play practice session)

  • Turn Towards: the emotional bank account behavior exchange combined with love maps exercise
  • Turn towards and create shared meaning; rituals of connection
  • Initiating and refusing sex
  • Turn towards: aftermath of failed bids questionnaire; minimizing relapse

INTERVENTIONS – MINIMIZING RELAPSE (including presentations, demonstrations, film, and audience participation in interactive role-play practice session)

  • Turn towards: the emotional bank account/stress-reducing conversation
  • Marital poop detector

DISCUSSION, QUESTION & ANSWERS WITH PRESENTERS
DAY FOUR

CO-MORBIDITIES (including presentations, films, and discussion)

  • PTSD Case Study
  • Affairs Case Study
  • Domestic Violence Case Study
  • Depression
  • Addictions

CASE CONSULTATION

DISCUSSION, QUESTION & ANSWERS WITH PRESENTERS