Core Concepts in Couple Couselling 3: Welcome to Core Concepts session three.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Welcome to Core Concepts session three.

Please post reflections for session three on this blog.

This session complements the previous session on emotion, and will focus on love as an activity, where the partners take responsibility for building the relationship moment by moment through loving actions.

In the process of discussing these issues, we shall examine the second of our three theoretical approaches: solution focused couple therapy (SFT).

Michele Weiner Davis/SFT

Prereading:

Michele Weiner Davis: Why should I be the one to change?

Links:
http://www.divorcebusting.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Weiner-Davis

Youtube videos:
References:

•Peter De Jong and Insoo Kim Berg, Interviewing for Solutions, Brooks/Cole 2002

•Michele Weiner Davis, Divorce Busting, Simon and Shuster Publishers, 1993

•Michele Weiner Davis, The Divorce Remedy, The Proven 7 Step Program for Saving Your Marriage,Simon and Shuster Publishers 2002

Core competencies for session three:
1. Ability to identify achievable couple goals as distinct from individual goals
2. Identify personal capacities
3. Identify what has worked
4. Ability to normalize and de-pathologise
5. Ability to introduce couple tasks or experiments
6. Ability to introduce personal responsibility: what is more important, rightness or the relationship
7. Ability to introduce the notion of difference: real giving is what pleases your partner

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