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| CBT The Center for Brief Therapy, PC, 10319 Dawson's Creek Blvd, Suite J, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA 46825 260-969-5583; fax 260-969-5584; email: freemancbt@aol.com |
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH COUPLES
ARTHUR FREEMAN, EdD, ABPP & Sharon Morgillo Freeman, PhD, APRN-CS
This workshop offers an understanding of the assessment and treatment of couples from a CBT perspective and
will focus on a range of relationship and sexual issues.
When couples come for therapy it is usually at the end of the process rather than at the beginning. Rising
divorce rates, increases in partner abuse, and sexual dysfunction make couples work an essential part of clinical
practice. The treatment of couples is more than doubling the number of clients working with the therapist. It
requires a different conceptual set for the therapist. This intensive workshop will offer an understanding of the
assessment and treatment of couples from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) perspective and will focus on a
broad range of relationship issues for couples.
This workshop will address the conceptual framework for a CBT approach to couple's work.
Specifically:
assessment tools
treatment formats
administration of therapy
format, length and frequency of treatment
complications of treatment because of psychopathology
use of homework with couples
and follow-up for treatment
The Freeman Intimacy Styles Approach (FISA) will be introduced as both an assessment and treatment tool.
Participants will use the FISA, and practice developing treatment plans based on the FISA. Teaching methods will
include didactic presentation, videotape demonstration, role-playing, and small group practice.
1. cognitive behavioral approaches for dealing with couples.
2. combating relationship dynamics that are toxic to sexual desire
3. rekindling sexual activity in couples with no sex and low sex relationships
4. overcoming the common problem of desire
5. discrepancy in long-term relationships
The workshop will include a discussion for any questions relating to couple work to be held at the end of the
workshop.
At the conclusion of the workshop participants will be able to:
Assess relationship satisfaction and dissatisfaction
Take a comprehensive history from the partners and the couple
Develop a couples treatment plan
Define intimacy
Describe the use of the Freeman Intimacy Styles Approach as an assessment and treatment planning tool
Increase a couple's intimacy repertoire
Address sexual desire difficulties - Describe the 12 most common relationship myths
Describe 10 cognitive and 10 behavioral techniques to be used with couples
Discuss the concept of acceptance as defined by both Jacobson and by Hayes
Discuss the role of cultural, religious, gender, and ethnic factors in relationships
The workshop is designed for practicing professionals and will be run at an advanced level. Psychologists,
counselors, clinical social workers, pastoral counselors, psychiatrists, nurse therapists, and family therapists
would all profit from this workshop.
ARTHUR FREEMAN, EdD, ABPP & Sharon Morgillo Freeman, PhD, APRN-CS
This workshop offers an understanding of the assessment and treatment of couples from a CBT perspective and
will focus on a range of relationship and sexual issues.
When couples come for therapy it is usually at the end of the process rather than at the beginning. Rising
divorce rates, increases in partner abuse, and sexual dysfunction make couples work an essential part of clinical
practice. The treatment of couples is more than doubling the number of clients working with the therapist. It
requires a different conceptual set for the therapist. This intensive workshop will offer an understanding of the
assessment and treatment of couples from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) perspective and will focus on a
broad range of relationship issues for couples.
This workshop will address the conceptual framework for a CBT approach to couple's work.
Specifically:
assessment tools
treatment formats
administration of therapy
format, length and frequency of treatment
complications of treatment because of psychopathology
use of homework with couples
and follow-up for treatment
The Freeman Intimacy Styles Approach (FISA) will be introduced as both an assessment and treatment tool.
Participants will use the FISA, and practice developing treatment plans based on the FISA. Teaching methods will
include didactic presentation, videotape demonstration, role-playing, and small group practice.
1. cognitive behavioral approaches for dealing with couples.
2. combating relationship dynamics that are toxic to sexual desire
3. rekindling sexual activity in couples with no sex and low sex relationships
4. overcoming the common problem of desire
5. discrepancy in long-term relationships
The workshop will include a discussion for any questions relating to couple work to be held at the end of the
workshop.
At the conclusion of the workshop participants will be able to:
Assess relationship satisfaction and dissatisfaction
Take a comprehensive history from the partners and the couple
Develop a couples treatment plan
Define intimacy
Describe the use of the Freeman Intimacy Styles Approach as an assessment and treatment planning tool
Increase a couple's intimacy repertoire
Address sexual desire difficulties - Describe the 12 most common relationship myths
Describe 10 cognitive and 10 behavioral techniques to be used with couples
Discuss the concept of acceptance as defined by both Jacobson and by Hayes
Discuss the role of cultural, religious, gender, and ethnic factors in relationships
The workshop is designed for practicing professionals and will be run at an advanced level. Psychologists,
counselors, clinical social workers, pastoral counselors, psychiatrists, nurse therapists, and family therapists
would all profit from this workshop.
