Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges
offered by Harvard University

Private University
3 Campuses
Estd. 1636

Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges
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Harvard University
Overview

This course will focus on doing effective relational work in the midst of specific challenges including working with trauma, interpersonal violence, sexual issues, and individual therapy in the context of the needs of diverse populations.

Duration	5 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Advanced
Official Website	Go to Website
Course Level	UG Certificate

Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges
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Harvard University
Highlights

Earn a certificate after completion of the course

Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges
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Harvard University
Course details

Who should do this course?

Primary Care Physicians
Specialty
Psychologists
Social Workers
Counselors
Family Therapists

What are the course deliverables?

Describe two practices to invite couple members to work on their part of the problem pattern that prevents them from living their preferred lives
Identify two micro and two macro recursive steps of the Collaborative Change Model that can be used with couples in which trauma is a factor
Outline three strategies to avoid reflexively siding with an individual client’s view of the relationship
List three concepts from the Single Session Therapy Approach that will enrich their current clinical work with couples
Describe two interventions related using one’s own personal life to strengthen and deepen one’s clinical skills with couples

More about this course

This is an accredited, livestreamed course offered by Harvard Medical School. This course is targeted to Primary Care Physicians, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and Family Therapists.
Select the Take Course button to view additional information on the course registration page.
Contact ceprograms@hms.harvard.edu with questions.
*Register before August 24 to receive the discounted price.

Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges
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Harvard University
Curriculum

Medicine, Healthcare, Mental Health

Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges
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Harvard University
Faculty details

Sue Johnson, EdD

Founder, Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT) Distinguished Research Professor, Alliant University (San Diego) Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology, University of Ottawa Clinical faculty, University of British Columbia’s Department of Psychiatry

Lana Kim, PhD

Program Director and Associate Professor, Marriage, Couple, & Family Therapy, Lewis & Clark College Graduate School