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Video: Dr. John Norcross on couple’s therapy

…ning of communication and compromise and empathy begin. We also, like most couples’ therapists, we don’t allow much finger pointing and blaming. Instead, the work is to become the person you would like to and the spouse that you want to be. But as you know from your own experience, that’s very difficult. When people come into treatment, they want, of course, to pin the blame on most people. And even when they say, “I’ll take 50% of the blame,” the…

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Human Sexuality: Advances and Treatment

…be versed in sexual psychoeducation, how sexuality affects individual and couples relational issues, and how to directly address sexual issues when they are explicitly part of therapy. Many therapists are reluctant to discuss sexual issues with clients. This course, with this frank discussion of sexual issues and its information on sex therapy, will help therapists become more comfortable and conversant with sexuality in its many and diverse form…

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Strategies for Discussing Race, Racial Discrimination, & Racial Trauma with Youth in 2020

…care setting. Services that she provide include brief individual therapy, couples therapy, and culturally responsive therapeutic groups that focus on race-based trauma, military sexual trauma, and resilience. Lastly, she leads the Diversity Training Subcommittee and promotes efforts to increase diversity and cultural competency among psychology graduate trainees, and she is an active participant on several leadership councils through the VA Medic…

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IPNB and Relationships: The Neurobiology of We

…el explores how relationships influence the brain and the brain influences relationships and review the highlights of both child and adult attachment research. We’ll examine the nature of couples’ therapy and family functioning as we discover the importance of a “soul friend” and “feeling felt”. Examining the neural correlates of interpersonal attunement and resonance, we’ll have the opportunity to explore mirror neurons, the “resonance circuits,”…

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Benefits of Mindfulness

…. This is also true for parents who are struggling with their children and couples who are keying off each other based on destructive dynamics that have built up between them. When we are reactive, falling victim to our immediate thoughts or emotions, we are not always acting in our own self-interest. Mindfulness provides a great tool for developing more self-acceptance, which helps us build our compassion for others. It allows us to take more pow…

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Helping Youth Cope With Perceived Racism, Prejudice and Bias

…care setting. Services that she provide include brief individual therapy, couples therapy, and culturally responsive therapeutic groups that focus on race-based trauma, military sexual trauma, and resilience. Lastly, she leads the Diversity Training Subcommittee and promotes efforts to increase diversity and cultural competency among psychology graduate trainees, and she is an active participant on several leadership councils through the VA Medic…

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Death Anxiety

…d ones. Individuals tend to relive early childhood trauma in their present relationships and, at the same time, maintain a fantasy that they can somehow escape death by merging with another person. Couples tend to act out reciprocal roles (dominant /submissive, parent/child etc.) in their interactions. Both participate in this damaging collusion and find it difficult to disengage because the polarized patterns provide an illusion of safety and who…

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Strategies for Increasing Diversity and Supporting Students in the Mental Health Field

…care setting. Services that she provide include brief individual therapy, couples therapy, and culturally responsive therapeutic groups that focus on race-based trauma, military sexual trauma, and resilience. Lastly, she leads the Diversity Training Subcommittee and promotes efforts to increase diversity and cultural competency among psychology graduate trainees, and she is an active participant on several leadership councils through the VA Medic…

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