Description: Experts examine lies and deception in relationships, revealing four types of lies and strategies for rebuilding trust. The panel explores therapist techniques for detecting dishonesty, understanding partner motivations, and supporting couples through significant betrayals. Key insights include the importance of transparency, self-awareness, and mutual commitment to healing.
Syllabus Description: A review of the pitfalls of deception as applied to relationships including therapeutic approaches.
Learning Objectives:
1. List three types of deception
2. Given a couple where deception is a factor, indicate a therapeutic approach.
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Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT®). He has a clinical practice in Calabasas, CA, where he has specialized for the last 15 years in working with couples and individuals who wish to be in relationships. He and his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, developed the PACT Institute for the purpose of training other psychotherapists to use this method in their clinical practice.
Ellyn Bader, PhD, is a founder and director of The Couples Institute in Menlo Park, California. As a clinical psychologist, workshop leader, author, and speaker, she is dedicated to helping couples create extraordinary relationships. Over the past 30 years she has trained therapists in couples therapy throughout the United States as well as Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. She served as a Clinical Faculty in Stanford University School of Medicine for 8 years.