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• Archive: Faculty:Steven StosnyDuration:2 Hours 40 MinutesFormat:Audio and VideoCopyright:Mar 25, 2018 Description Manual - Making Couples Therapy Stick (1.7 MB) 18 Pages Available after Purchase Outline Couples often fail to maintain the skills they learn in therapy.Under stress, they retreat to entrenched habits of emotion regulation.Under stress they invoke childhood coping mechanisms of blame, denial, and avoidance.Teach clients to switch from “toddler brain” to “adult brain” coping mechanisms.Convert blame, denial, avoidance into improve, appreciate, connect, protect.Show clients how to act on their deeper values rather than temporary feelingsShow clients how to use guilt and shame as motivations to stay true to deeper values, i.e., showing compassion and kindness to loved ones.Create positive emotional habits to replace dysfunctional ones.Help clients build routine micro-moments of connection, e.g., eye contact, brief touch, smiles.Help clients use cognitive dissonance to improve their connection.
• Faculty Steven Stosny, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 1 Steven Stosny, Ph.D. is the director of Compassion Power and author of You Don't Have to Take It Anymore: How to Turn a Resentful, Angry or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One and Love Without Hurt.