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The workshop will be experiential and didactic and will cover theory and technique for beginning couple therapists, followed by a live demonstration of the Image Dialogue. Participants will learn how to:

• Assess the viability of the couple for treatment.
• Manage constructive initial and subsequent sessions.
• Have specific tools with which to facilitate sessions.
• Have some interventions to fall back on when you don’t know what to do.
• Stay in charge.
• Transform a negative dynamic into a positive one.
• Enhance an individual treatment by observing first hand what is going on in the relationship your patient is troubled by.
• Conceptualize the underlying issues that are tormenting the couple.
• Incorporate a general theoretical understanding of what people play out and why they do it, and therefore how treatment needs to be structured in order to get therapeutic leverage.