Parenting in Today’s World: Clinical Conversations

CONTINUING EDUCATION – 2 CE HOURS

The intersection of parent therapy and couples therapy provides an opportunity for clinicians to engage with families to achieve substantial and lasting growth in parents and their children. This presentation will showcase the work of Dr. Ellen Wachtel who has been working at that intersection during her lengthy career and has written volumes on these subjects.With the use of clinical material and through conversations organized around questions and answers, Dr. Wachtel will demonstrate her ways of working to help identify and organize the valuable material of everyday sessions into templates for changing lives. Her tools and techniques will likely become additions to each clinician’s style of working within families, adding to trusted guideposts from previous training.

Ellen Wachtel has a PhD in clinical psychology from New York University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. She is the author of Treating Troubled Children and their Families; We Love Each Other But…Simple Secrets to Strengthen Your Relationship and Make Love Last; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy (with Paul Wachtel) and most recently, The Heart of Couple Therapy: Knowing What to Do and How to Do It. Her books have been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic. She gives workshops at home and abroad and has taught courses in Couples Therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family.