After the Affair: From Trauma to ... Forgiveness?
Presented by Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP on 02-20-2015 at 9 a.m. Pacific to 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern)
Even experienced therapists can become overwhelmed by couples ravaged by infidelity as partners display rage and despair and precipitously drop out of therapy. Both partners battle feeling hopeless and helpless. Janis Abrahms Spring’s 37 years of pioneering work inform her strategies for helping couples tackle and transcend the trauma of infidelity, including the particular challenges presented by affairs in cyberspace.
You’ll learn a revolutionary approach for handling secrets in couple therapy. You’ll also gather skills for helping wounded and unfaithful partners normalize the emotional avalanche of their experience so they don’t feel so crazy, shattered, or alone. You’ll be able to help them identify current life stressors, family of origin experiences, and other factors that made them vulnerable to an affair; appreciate the power, addiction, and illusion of romantic love; and make thoughtful, self-interested decisions about whether to fight for the relationship or end it. If the couple chooses to stay together, you’ll also learn strategies for helping partners rebuild trust, rekindle an intimate connection, and earn forgiveness.
The emphasis of this workshop will be on providing practical and concrete tools for helping partners take responsibility for their share of the relationship damage, grow as individuals, and, perhaps, bond together as a couple more strongly than ever before.
This web conference is intermediate instructional level and designed to help clinicians:
- Employ a revolutionary open-secrets policy that helps couples and therapists manage secrets in therapy;
- Identify what makes cybersex so tempting and addictive;
- Explain how recognition of contributing factors is critical to reducing a couple's susceptibility to future affairs;
- Describe a trust-building exercise that cultivates connection between partners after an affair.
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Event Reviews from Members
"The most useful part of the learning for me was how Dr. Spring identified concrete ways to help encourage couples to build trust again." - Ellen Schrier, MS, LPC
"The entire workshop was insightful and helpful. I have read her books." - Corinna Merriman-Morris, CAGS
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Meet the Presenter
Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP, is nationally recognized as an expert on the topics of intimacy, trust, and forgiveness. She is the author of After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, which sold more than half a million copies. The second edition, recently updated, includes a chapter on the “new infidelity”—affairs in cyberspace. Dr. Spring’s book Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent, which explores the moments of grace and personal struggles associated with caregiving and growing old, was awarded the Living Well Award Silver Medal. How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, The Freedom Not To, was a finalist for Best Psychology Book from the Books for a Better Life Award.
Throughout 37 years of private practice, Dr. Spring’s innovations and rich clinical experience have made her a distinguished presenter and a popular media guest on programs such as Good Morning America and NPR. She received the Connecticut Association of Marriage and Family Therapists Award for Distinguished Family Service and the Connecticut Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology. She is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology and was a clinical supervisor in Yale University’s department of psychology.
Dr. Spring lives in Westport, Connecticut with her husband. They have four grown sons and five grandchildren. For additional information on Dr. Spring, please visit www.janisaspring.com.
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GoodTherapy.org is Approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
GoodTherapy.org has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6380. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. GoodTherapy.org is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/30/2016 - 03/30/2019.- GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395.
- GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.
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