Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy for Couples
Description
This webinar offers a brief overview of how to use attachment theory as a framework for couples therapy, especially focusing on helping patients to increase mentalization and compassionate self-awareness to heal the rift in relationships. It briefly summarizes attachment theory and some related concepts, provides a treatment overview, details the evaluation process, and explores treatment interventions.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Use attachment theory as a framework for couples therapy.
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Describe the importance in couples therapy of helping partners to increase their intra- and inter-personal awareness and compassion.
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Apply interventions that improve compassionate awareness and mentalization of partners in couples, including addressing attachment-related resistances.
Instructor Bio
With over 30 years of experience as a psychologist, Dr. Leslie Becker-Phelps is dedicated to helping people become emotionally and psychologically healthy. She does this through her private practice, teaching continuing education courses for mental health professionals related to her attachment-based compassion therapy approach, her writing, and her YouTube channel.
Dr. Becker-Phelps is a prolific writer who authored three books with New Harbinger Publications: The Insecure in Love Workbook (2024), Insecure in Love (2014), and Bouncing Back from Rejection (2019). She was the Consultant Psychologist for Love: The Psychology of Attraction (DK Publishing, 2016), which was a finalist for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s prestigious Books for Better Living award (2017). In addition, she writes the Authentically You blog and the Psychology Today Making Change blog, and she wrote the weekly Relationships blog for WebMD for over 10 years. She is also a medical reviewer for Everydayhealth.com.
She is also on the medical staff at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital – Somerset, where (as Somerset Medical Center) she had served as clinical director of Women’s Psychological Services and Chief of Psychology.
Dr. Becker-Phelps has no conflicts of interest for this program.
Contact Us
For questions, please contact: ce@gsapp.rutgers.edu
Continuing Education Information
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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