Faculty:
Peter Fraenkel
Duration:
2 Hours 36 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 24, 2018
Peter Fraenkel – The Last-Chance Couple: Saving Relationships on the Eve of Destruction
Description
Unhappy couples often present in ways that offer little promise their relationship can be saved, leaving the partners feeling helpless and the therapist feeling stumped. But hope can spring anew when we have a toolbox of techniques to help these couples interact in different ways, turning even the most toxic marriage, full of disdainful feelings, into one of positive growth.
Watch Peter Fraenkel use recorded demonstrations that focus on four types of last-chance couples, and show how to engage them in transforming their relationship.
Handouts
Manual (0.78 MB)
58 Pages
Available after Purchase
Outline
Four Types of Last Chance Couples
High conflict couples
Couples where there has been a value or safety violation
Domestic violence
Infidelity
Gambling
Abuse of substances
Couples where partners have mismatched personal time lines/life goals
Explicit Time Problems
Implicit Time Problems
Couples with little to know passionate connection
Burned out and conflict avoidant couples
How to Engage the Partner Who is Ambivalent about Staying in the Marriage
Inviting and validating the partner’s ambivalent feelings
Creating Comfort and Safety with the Committed Partner
Self-Disclosing
Techniques that Restore Hope and a Possible Better Future
Teaching communication and problem-solving skills that restore hope
Introducing reframes of problem patterns that restore a sense of the positive qualities of the relationship
Gratitude Writing
Ideas that Encourage Couples to Try New Patterns of Interacting
Communication Techniques
Brief introduction to research-supported communication and problem-solving techniques
Techniques for Restoring Pleasure and Passion
The Sixty Second Pleasure Point activity
The Silent Shared New Experience activity
Faculty
Peter Fraenkel, PhD Related seminars and products: 2
Peter Fraenkel, PhD, is a psychologist, associate professor of psychology at the City College of New York, and former director of the Center for Work and Family at the Ackerman Institute. He received the 2012 American Family Therapy Award for Innovative Contribution to Family Therapy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Peter Fraenkel is in private practice. He is director of the Ackerman Institute for the Family’s Center for Work and Family.
Non-financial: Peter Fraenkel has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
