About the Event
Cognitive Behavior Institute is excited to welcome Alexander Antonucci, LPC, CGT, ACS for a live interactive webinar on: Special Topics in Couples Therapy: Secure Attachment as a Protective Factor to Support Ethical Decision Making
Date: October 15th, 2024
Time: 11:50am - 2:00pm EST
Location: online via zoom webinar
*Participants will not have access to their camera/microphone
Cost: $25
Level: Intermediate
Credit Hours: 2 CEs including: 1 hour in ethics and 1 hour in suicidality
This training can be purchased individually or as part of a 10 series bundle. Click here to check out the bundle option!
Description:
According to the American Psychological Association's Encyclopedia of Psychology, 90% of adults get married before the age of 50. Divorce rates of heterosexual marriages are approaching 67%. Furthermore, research is continually demonstrating that, while same-sex marriages face unique challenges, relationship success or failure is often able to be predicted along similar lines as heterosexual relationships (Gottman et. al. 2003). Divorced or separated men are twice as likely to die by suicide as married men (Kopsowa 2003). Addressing the epidemic levels of divorce is a powerful antidote toward addressing suicide in the United States. Healthy attachment has been acknowledged as a biological need that affects physiological responses down to the sensitivity of pain receptors. Participants will learn how effective couples treatment can be a profound protective factor against suicide and how to intervene when suicidality is voiced in the clinical setting.
Couples therapists interface with a number of extremely important and sensitive ethical issues in marital therapy. Affairs, addiction, violence, divorce, countertransference, and various co-morbidities are present in marital therapy to a significant degree. Participants will explore ethical ways to navigate these tricky situations.
Agenda:
11:50-12:00 Introduction: Introduction & Course Overview (Conflicts of interest, learning objectives, limitations)
12:00-1:00 Suicide, Pain, and Attachment (research, attachment formation, clinical application of relational intervention for suicide prevention)
1:00-2:00 Discussion on various ethical considerations (contraindications, affairs, violence, addiction, divorce, balanced rapport)
Learning Objectives:
Participants will apply secure attachment interventions as a suicide protective factor. Participants will describe various ethically relevant decision-making processes in couples therapy.
Instructor Bio:
Alexander is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor. Certified by the Gottman Institute, he specializes in working with couples providing, both, regular appointments and Marathon Intensive Couples Therapy. He also works with individuals and families. Conferred an MA degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University, Alexander has trained with some of the world’s leading mindfulness and meditation teachers. As the Program Manager for Cognitive Behavior Institute's Center for Clinical Supervision, Alexander oversees a team of site supervisors and develops programs that provide training, supervision, and consultation to other psychotherapists.Course bibliography:
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Bradley, Renay P. Cleary, Friend, Daniel J. and Gottman, John M. (2011) ‘Supporting Healthy Relationships in Low-Income, Violent Couples: Reducing Conflict and Strengthening Relationship Skills and Satisfaction‘, Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 10:2, 97-116;
Coan, J., Schaefer, H., & Cavidson, R. Lending a hand. psychological Science, 2006, vol. 17, pp.1-8.
Conejero, I., Olié, E., Calati, R., Ducasse, D., & Courtet, P. (2018). Psychological Pain, Depression, and Suicide: Recent Evidences and Future Directions. Current psychiatry reports, 20(5), 33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-018-0893-z
Eisenberger, N. I., Master, S. L., Inagaki, T. K., Taylor, S. E., Shirinyan, D., Lieberman, M. D., & Naliboff, B. D. (2011). Attachment figures activate a safety signal-related neural region and reduce pain experience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(28), 11721-11726. doi:10.1073/pnas.1108239108
Esposito, B. (2020, March 16). Benita Esposito. Retrieved from https://www.flourishing-lives.com/dr- john-gottmans-marriage-research-statistics/
Falgares G, Marchetti D, De Santis S, Carrozzino D, Kopala-Sibley DC, Fulcheri M and Verrocchio MC (2017) Attachment Styles and Suicide- Related Behaviors in Adolescence: The Mediating Role of Self-Criticism and Dependency. Front. Psychiatry 8:36. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00036
Fogel, A. (2012, April 19). Emotional and Physical Pain Activate Similar Brain Regions. Psychology Today.
G. Anne Bogat, Antonia M. Garcia, and Alytia A. Levendosky (2013). Assessment and Psychotherapy with Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: Integrating Research and Practice. Psychodynamic Psychiatry: Vol. 41, Intimate Partner Violence, pp. 189-217.
Gottman, John M. and Schwartz-Gottman, Julie. (March 2017) The Natural Principles of Love, Journal of Family Theory and Review
Johnson, S. M. (2019). Attachment theory in practice: Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) with individuals, couples, and families. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Kposowa, A. J. (2000). Marital status and suicide in the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 54(4), 254–261. doi: 10.1136/jech.54.4.254
Lee, J., Kim, H., Woo, J., Chang, S. M., Hong, J. P., Lee, D. W., Hahm, B. J., Cho, S. J., Park, J. I., Jeon, H.J., Seong, S. J., Park, J. E., & Kim, B. S. (2020). Impacts of Remaining Single above the Mean Marriage Age on Mental Disorders and Suicidality: a Nationwide Study in Korea. Journal of Korean medical science, 35(37), e319. https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e319
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Stephenson, M., Prom-Wormley, E., Lannoy, S., & Edwards, A. C. (2023). The temporal relationship between marriage and risk for suicidal ideation. Journal of affective disorders, 343, 129–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.10.007
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Approvals:
Cognitive Behavior Institute, #1771, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 06/30/2022-06/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 total credits including 1 ethics and 1 clinical continuing education credits.
Cognitive Behavior Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0098 and the State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0646 and the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0216.
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Social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors in Pennsylvania can receive continuing education from providers approved by the American Psychological Association. Since CBI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education, licensed social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors in Pennsylvania will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirements by attending CBI continuing education programs. For professionals outside the state of Pennsylvania, you must confirm with your specific State Board that APA approved CE's are accepted towards your licensure requirements. The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) has a process for approving individual programs or providers for continuing education through their Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. ACE approved providers and individual courses approved by ASWB are not accepted by every state and regulatory board for continuing education credits for social workers. Every US state other than New York accepts ACE approval for social workers in some capacity: New Jersey only accepts individually approved courses for social workers, rather than courses from approved providers. The West Virginia board requires board approval for live courses, but accepts ASWB ACE approval for other courses for social workers. For more information, please see https://www.aswb.org/ace/ace-jurisdiction-map/. Whether or not boards accept ASWB ACE approved continuing education for other professionals such as licensed professional counselors or licensed marriage and family therapists varies by jurisdiction. To determine if a course can be accepted by your licensing board, please review your board’s regulations or contact them. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
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