Helping couples create and sustain intimacy over time is a challenging endeavor, too often avoided by even experienced clinicians. Yet relationship distress is the most common presenting problem in any clinical setting. This popular seminar, taught by Dr. Judith Zucker Anderson, co-sponsored with the UCI Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, fills a local clinical training need, which provides the practicing therapist an opportunity to gain expertise and confidence in treating couples. The approach presented is an effective, empirically based couples therapy model from an attachment theory framework based on Emotionally Focused Therapy [EFT], Gottman’s marital research and guided by new insights from neuroscience.

The training emphasizes core skill building, interactional thinking and translating theory into “what to do” in session. The small group format of the seminar includes lectures, lively discussion and extensive videotapes of actual couples therapy material. The seminar spans 5 or 6 weeks and grants 15-18 hours of continuing education credit.

The Foundation for the Contemporary Family is approved by the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.)
to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Foundation for the Contemporary Family maintains
responsibility for its programs and their contents. Credits are provided on an hour-per-hour basis.

The Foundation for the Contemporary Family is a board-approved provider (PCE No. 2688 )
for the Board of Behavioral Sciences in California. The Foundation's programs meet the qualifications
for continuing education credits on an hour-per-hour basis for MFT's and/or LCSW's as required by
the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.