COURSE DESCRIPTION

This program will help you deal with clients who are passive-aggressive, who break agreements, or withhold sex. You'll learn how to work more effectively with couples who refuse to compromise, partners who lie or keep secrets, and relationships that lack the good will needed for negotiation and self-soothing. And, you'll learn when better communication makes things worse.

TESTIMONIALS

Here are some comments about Dr. Klein's past programs:

"We can always count on you to keep the audience laughing while they are learning."—Mary Riemersma, Executive Director, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

"Dr. Klein's dynamic presentation style, clear expertise, and winning sense of humor quickly win over even difficult audiences. His ratings are consistently high."—National Association of Social Workers

"Your superb program covered a wide variety of issues in a practical, useful way, and your humor made the experience even more enjoyable."—Stanford University Medical School

"Those attending your training gave it an excellent rating. They found it entertaining and informative, and we are very pleased." —Idaho Psychological Association

TOPICS

• Configurations of power/anger/trust

• How clients express power dynamics

• Distancer-pursuer couples

• Agreements: Keeping, Breaking, & Discussing

• Why sexuality involves power dynamics

• Working with raging couples

• Empowering wounded clients

• Therapists' myths about communicatoin

• How therapists collude with victims

• Transference and Counter-transference

GOALS

At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to:

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SPEAKER PROFILE