CC11 Keynote 02 – Change Your Brain, Change Your Love Life - Daniel Amen, MD
The brain is involved with everything we do, especially our relationships. In this fun presentation Dr. Amen will discuss different areas of the brain involved in relationships, what they do, what happens when things go wrong and how to improve them. You are a better marital therapist when you understand the brain.
CC11 Keynote 03 – Bad and Good Couples Therapy - William Doherty, PhD
Jay Haley once said that couples work is the hardest kind of therapy. This presentation will identify the most common screw-ups therapists make in couples therapy, and demonstrate ways to avoid them. There will be some-thing for both beginning and experienced therapists, who tend to make different mistakes.
CC11 Keynote 04 – After the Storm: The Legacies of Infidelity - Esther Perel, MA, LMFT
There are multiple reasons for affairs. We will examine the benefits of affairs and why affairs can actually stabilize a marriage. In particular, we will focus on how couples can turn the crisis into an opportunity. This is a multicultural therapeutic approach for working with extramarital relations.
CC11 Keynote 05 – Dreams Within Conflict: The Gottman Method Approach to Gridlocked Perpetual Conflict - Julie Gottman, PhD
Gridlocked perpetual conflicts often destroy relationships. They repeatedly surface, causing partners endless pain, fear, even trauma. Yet every couple faces them. In this address, Dr. Julie Gottman describes a dyadic therapy method that uncloaks the dreams, history and fears beneath partners’ issues while fostering greater compassion and connection in the couple. An edited film will be shown to demonstrate this intervention.
CC11 Keynote 06 – You’re the One You’ve Been Waiting For: An Internal Family Systems Approach to Intimacy - Richard Schwartz, PhD
We have all been taught that our romantic partner should end our misery and make us feel happy and alive. When he or she doesn’t we wonder if they’re the right one. Yet, for most of us, no partner is capable of keeping our heads above the pools of pain and shame we bring to intimate relationships. Only we can drain those pools and become the primary caretakers for the young, needy parts of us that are drowning in those pools. Once this inner trust is achieved, we can love our partners courageously and unconditionally because we don’t need them to always do the heavy lifting of our spirits.
CC11 Law & Ethics 01 - L&E’S GREATEST “HITS” Alerting You to the Most Frequent Problems for Mental Health Professionals - Part 1 - Steven Frankel, PhD, JD
CC11 Law & Ethics 02 - L&E’S GREATEST “HITS” Alerting You to the Most Frequent Problems for Mental Health Professionals - Part 2 - Steven Frankel, PhD, JD
CC11 Topical Panel 01 - Infidelity: What is the Essence of the Crisis and How Do Couples Move Forward? - Ellyn Bader, PhD, Marty Klein, PhD, Esther Perel, MA, LMFT, Jette Simon
CC11 Topical Panel 03 – Couples and Divorce: How Do You Assess When Separation/Divorce Make Sense or Does it? – Lilian Borges, MA, LPC, William Doherty, PhD, and Julie Gottman, PhD