AN ONLINE WORKSHOP FOR HEALTHCARE & OTHER PROFESSIONALS
When: Mon, Sep 23 – Sun, Oct 20, 2024 (4 weeks) ONLINE weekly at your discretion
Cost: $240 (Students $120) Registration Deadline: Monday, Sep 16, 2024
WEEK 1
- Introduction
- Gottman Research: Structure, reliability, likelihood.
- What characterizes the relationship in long time older adult relationships?
- The Principles of Gottman Practice Theory: Setting the conditions for positive emotional experience.
WEEK 2
- The Sound Relationship House Theory
- Love and Attachment Deconstructed: The Sound Relationship House Practice Theory
- Treatment Efficacy?
- How complex are the problems?… Spoiler, more complex than you might imagine.
- Life Stage or a Life of Problems: What are the issues older adult couples are bringing to therapy?
WEEK 3
- Introduction of a Case Example
- Assessment Precedes Intervention: Be thorough, know where you are going and do no harm.
- Assessment Made Easy: Am I foolish-ing you?
- Example Assessment and Case Plan, pre-retirement couple
WEEK 4
- Sessional Goal and Objectives: simply complex.
- Example Ritual of Connection Intervention.
- Faster than the speed of light…Why, When and How of Structured Interventions: Replacing the Four Horsemen, The Gottman Rapoport, Dreams in Conflict, Aftermath of the Fight and More.
- Where to go from here.
Instructor: Mike Fidler, MSW, RSW
Certified Advanced Trainer Gottman Institute, Seattle Washington
Registration and payment available online at https://aging.utoronto.ca/642-2/