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Last Chance Couple's Therapy

Session #: 710-523
Presenter(s): Peter Fraenkel
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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A badly broken marriage, in which both spouses show high levels of mutual anger and disdain and low levels of patience, good will, or hope and one or both spouses may not even really want things to get better doesn't seem to hold much promise for clinical salvation. It's possible, however, to turn even the most hopeless marriages around. In this workshop, we'll explore how to engage reluctant partners in therapy without making them feel trapped in an unhappy future. You'll learn ways to restore hope when couples seem about to give up, how to offer fresh perspectives on chronic struggles that revitalize interest in the possibility of change, and strategies for restarting passion and pleasure. Although we'll focus on four major types of Last Chance Couples, the theory and practices of this approach will apply to couples at any level of distress.

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