Big Island Events: HAMFT Annual Conference

by Dr. Kai Swigart
(Hilo, Hawaii)

Dr. William J. Doherty presenting on "Bad and Good Couples Therapy: Engaging Couples and Reducing Conflict"

To register, please visit http://www.hamft.net/index.php/calendar/2012_conference_hilo1


DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP

Most workshops focus only on what to do to make therapy effective. But we all know that mistakes are common in therapy, and perhaps particularly in couples therapy, which Jay Haley once said is the most difficult of all types of therapy to do well. This workshop will identify the most common screw-ups therapists make in couples therapy, and demonstrate ways to avoid them. There will be something for both beginning and experienced therapists, who tend to make different mistakes. The workshop will feature clips from movies, some of them hilarious, and a video demonstration of a way to work with a kind of couple who are often poorly served in couples therapy: ambivalent couples on the brink of divorce. This highly practical workshop will make your couples therapy more effective, whatever your model.