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Advanced Relationship Enhancement® Couples/Family Therapy Workshop

This two-day workshop provides advanced training and group supervision in the use of the Relationship Enhancement® Model in Couple and Family Therapy. The workshop emphasizes the building of participants' therapeutic skills through a process that combines lecture, video, role-play demonstrations and intensively supervised skill practice. Participants are encouraged to bring questions, ideas and case examples of actual or hypothetical situations for role-played demonstration and analysis. Enrollment in this workshop is limited in order to promote an intimate atmosphere for sharing as well as to insure ample opportunity for individual and group feedback during supervised skill training.

Participants attending this workshop may also be interested in applying to NIRE's:

     Certification Program in Relationship Enhancement® Couple Therapy
     Certification Program in Relationship Enhancement® Family Therapy

Certification also available as a:

     Couples Relationship Enhancement® Program Educator/Leader

Workshop Objectives:

Upon completion of this workshop, participants should acquire:

  • A deepened understanding of experiential and crisis intervention formats for conducting RE therapy, as well as special RE applications
  • An increased confidence in your own ability to conduct RE Couple and Family Therapy effectively
  • An understanding of how to incorporate Identification Empathy-Training into RE therapy
  • More experience in the rationale and use of specialized RE therapist techniques of "Becoming," "Laundering" and "Trouble-shooting"

Agenda:

  • The Newer RE Formats:
    • Crisis Intervention
  • New, Recent, or Special RE Applications, including:
    • Intrapsychic RE
    • Unilateral RE
    • Individual RE
    • Group RE
  • Specialized RE Therapist Techniques, including:
    • Laundering
    • Polling
    • Becoming
    • Double-Coaching
    • Trouble-shooting for Self
    • Trouble-shooting for Client
    • Identification Empathy-Training
  • Skill Training
    • Laundering
    • Becoming
    • Trouble-shooting
    • Identification Empathy-Training

CE Information:

13 hours of CE credits or 1.3 CEU's are provided to psychologists, social workers and counselors. For further information, see Continuing Education Information

Attendance at this workshop also counts for 3.5 hours of towards the supervision requirements for certification as an RE Couple Therapist or RE Family Therapist.

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Schedule, Cost and Registration Information:


Cost of the RE training workshop is $245.

A discount of $25 is available for each person attending from the same site and registering together.

The workshop meets from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Lunch is on your own.

To Register, contact Ms. Laura Landi:

Phone
     301-986-1479
Fax
     301-680-3756
E-mail
     niremd@nire.org
Mail
     NIRE - Administrative Office
     12500 Blake Road
     Silver Spring, MD 20904-2056

If you register by fax or mail, please include your name, address, home and work phone numbers, and the dates for which you are registering.

Payment may be made either by check or credit card. Registrations by fax must be accompanied by a credit card number.

If payment is made with a credit card number, please write your name exactly as it appears on the card, the expiration date and your signature.

Additional Training Opportunities:

Participants completing this workshop may also wish to attend NIRE's:

     Couples Relationship Enhancement® Program Educator/Leader Training Workshop

You might also wish to consult:


On-Site Training Opportunities:

This and all other NIRE professional training workshops can be offered on-site and tailored to meet your organization's or group's distinctive needs. For more information on this potentially cost-saving alternative, please see

     On-Site Training Opportunities