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Couples Counselling using Systemic Family Therapy by Udemy
Learn couples counselling: Understand how systematic family therapy helps build stronger relationships and marriages
Course Highlights
- Couples counselling
- Relationship theory and step-by-step relationship counselling
- Psychotherapy skills
- Systemic family therapy
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
6 Topics
Welcome
Course goals and outline
How to use this course
Course handbook
Meet your instructor
Student community
8 Topics
What is a couple?
Origins of couples counselling
History and development
What makes relationships work?
Resilient relationships
Individual characteristics
The four horsemen
Test your knowledge
15 Topics
Exploring relationship theory
Relationships as systems
Interaction-focused therapy
Relationships as organisms
Why use systems?
Functional behaviour
Structures
Structural therapy
Transitions
Life cycles
Strategic therapy
Constructing identities
Are problems real?
Social construction
Test your knowledge
8 Topics
Introducing counselling skills
What is counselling?
Non-specific factors
Therapeutic alliance
Active listening
Core conditions
Confidentiality
Test your knowledge
12 Topics
Assessment
Is couples counselling a good fit?
Customer types
Contracting
Extending the therapeutic alliance
The presenting problem
What hasn't worked?
Formulation
Making changes
Outcome assessment
Dyadic adjustment scale (DAS)
Test your knowledge
15 Topics
Neutrality
Neutrality example
Unbalancing
Unbalancing example
Circular questioning
Circular questioning example
Reflective questioning
Reflective questioning example
Reframing
Reframing example
Enactment
Enactment example
Homework
Homework example
Test your knowledge
4 Topics
Mental illness
Domestic abuse
Separation and divorce
Test your knowledge
4 Topics
Sex and couples counselling
Talking about sex
Factors affecting sex
Sex myths
6 Topics
Impact of culture on counselling
Cultural interactions
Cultural factors
Cultural competencies
Culture exercise
Assessment
5 Topics
What is a genogram?
Drawing a genogram
Examples of genograms
Alternative genograms
Genogram exercise
4 Topics
Introduction to case studies
Sophie & James
Hannah & Tom
Gemma & Ishaan
3 Topics
Conclusion
References
Bonus lecture
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