Distance Training in
Classical Adlerian Brief Therapy:
Couple Therapy
DTB303

• Roots of male and female roles: historical perspectives on equality and inequality; cooperation, domination, subordination, privilege and protest; problems during transition periods.
• Influences of culture and religion.
• Imprint of parents and grandparents: assets of respect, love, and encouragement; obstacles of pampering, neglect, coercion, and abuse.
• Imprint of siblings: training in cooperation, sharing and helping, or competition and rivalry.
• Adolescent experimentation with roles, behavior, and feelings; prototypes for approaching other sex.

• Phases of creating and developing a relationship: searching for an ideal, attraction to qualities, expectations, insight.
• Early dating: using bait, testing limits. Sexual motives. Falling in love with person or fantasy.
• Solving first differences, style of conquering difficulties. Living together, monogamy/open relationship, marriage.
• Changes and growth in couple. Components of emotional, mental, and physical intimacy.
• Synergistic and conflicting philosophies of life. Ideals of creative love: Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, and Milton Mayeroff.

• Interview sequence and strategies: individual and joint sessions; questionnaires, interest and trait inventories; pathology testing; chemical abuse and dependency.
• Individual histories including childhood memories and family constellation. Relationship histories: first encounter, attraction, decisions, difficulties.
• Overview of previous therapy.
• Diagnostic conclusions: creating and comparing life style summaries of each person.
• Treatment plan: unfinished emotional business, correcting mistaken ideas and goals, developing missing qualities.

• Early stage: meeting with couple to air complaints and views of difficulties; individual, confidential interviews for elaboration.
• Middle stage: individual psychotherapy or counseling to build self-esteem, gain insight, and correct mistakes; encouragement for each to move in a new, unfamiliar direction; creating climate of experimentation.
• Later stage: working with couple to verify and reinforce improvements; building up recognition, appreciation, and trust.

• Sexual: positive and negative uses of sexual feeling and behavior; sexual dysfunction and other symptoms.
• Financial: the meaning of money as security, affection, prestige, power, freedom, or exchange.
• Division of labor: housekeeping, shopping, cooking, child care.
• Careers: levels of ambition, assigned importance, competition.
• In-laws: territorial issues, unfinished issues from childhood. Recreation and vacations.
• Addictions: alcohol, drugs, food, money, co-dependency. Physical and emotional abuse. Religious and cultural differences. Gay issues.

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