The Couple & The Child Clinical Training, live & online

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Program Description

The Couple & The Child Clinical Training is a 2-day workshop that will prepare therapists to work with couples whose conflict arises from child-provoked stress and parenting. Integrating couple relationship dynamics with parent-child attachment, this model analyses the effects of relationships on relationships, within family units. Clinicians attending this workshop will apply the theory of positive and negative triangulation between couples and their child to their own practice, in individual or couples therapy. They will analyse positive and negative triadic interactions and construct treatment plans for clients. Through role-play exercises, clinicians will integrate theory into practice and will be prepared to administer interventions to their clients.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives
  1. Analyse triangular alliances and differentiate helpful (positive) and harmful (negative) patterns
  2. Differentiate competitive couples alliances from collusive parent-child alliances
  3. Generate Parenting as a Team Action Plans to support couples working together
  4. Apply knowledge and theory of Parenting as a Team into clinical practice
  5. Demonstrate understanding of what constitutes couples working together versus working against each other
  6. Explain why working against each other is detrimental for children
  7. Describe the roles of the Active Parent and the Third-Party Parent
  8. Describe one intervention to disrupt competitive parenting
  9. Describe one intervention to repair mis-coordination
  10. Describe one intervention to reinforce a couple’s solidarity

Course Outline

INTRODUCTION
  • Course Outline
RESEARCH AND THEORY
  • Theoretical influences of PaaT
  • Assumptions
CO-PARENING ALLIANCES
  • Couples Working as a Team
  • Couples Divided
    • Collusive Triangulation
    • Competitive Alliance
    • Overactive Alliance
    • Abandoned Parenting
ASSESSMENT
  • Assessing for:
    • Type/s of co-parenting alliance
    • Unresolved emotional injuries
    • Dispositional representations
  • Contra-Indications
  • Risk Assessment and protocol
  • Content in the initial session
  • Timeline of the relationship
  • Individual sessions
INTERVENTIONS
  1. Painful Patterns in Parenting (PPP)
  2. Tackling Turbulence
  3. Healing Emotional Injuries
  4. Parenting Values
  5. Relationship Values
  6. The Daily Debrief
  7. Alliance Checklist
Q&A and what’s next
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