Gain a better understanding of how to move couples forward when helping them face difficult truths in their lives.
It's not easy when a couple enters treatment unsure about whether to dissolve a marriage or try to save it---especially when each partner leans in a different direction. These 'mixed agenda' couples present challenges for even the most skilled couples therapist, particularly since successful couples therapy usually depends on both partners being at least nominally invested in working on the relationship. This topic will demonstrate a new approach called Discernment Counseling that helps partners develop clarity and confidence about whether to divorce or work on their relationship in therapy, while avoiding the pitfall of trying to start couples therapy in the face of ambivalence about the future of the marriage and about the value of therapy for the marriage.
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Agenda
Overview and Definitions of Terms
Research Backdrop
- Divorce Decision Making
- Divorce Ambivalence
- Mixed Agenda Couples
Three Common Mistakes With Mixed-Agenda Couples
- Pursuing
- Withholding Hope
- Bargaining
Overview of Discernment Counseling
- Goals
- Different From Traditional Marriage Counseling
- Structure
- Time Limited but Longer Sessions
- Separate and Joint Conversations
- Focus on Three Paths
- Different Approaches With Leaning in and Leaning Spouses
- Outcomes
- Confidentiality Issues
The First Session
- The Questions When Both Are in the Room
- The Separate Conversations
- Sharing With One Another After Separate Conversations
Middle Sessions Overview
Final Session Transitions
- Path One (Status Quo)
- Path Two (Divorce)
- Path Three (Commitment to Six Months of Couples Therapy)
Learning to Do Discernment Counseling
- Common Mistakes
- Resources
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Credits
OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on March 27, 2018.
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This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Faculty
William J. Doherty, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
- Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota
- Director of the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project
- Co-founder of The Doherty Relationship Institute
- Author of 14 books and more than 150 journal articles
- Winner of the Significant Contribution to the Field of Marriage and Family Therapy from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Family Therapy Academy
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