Training Title:
Retired ~ Marital Therapy Part B

Clock Hours: 2

Objectives:
• Learn how to look at new ways of understanding couples in which one of them is an alcoholic. • Learn how to work creatively toward resolution

Description:
In “A Systemic Approach to Treating Couples with an Alcoholic Spouse” Michael Rohrbaugh, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, addresses from a systems perspective, alcohol problems are interwoven with the family and social context in which they occur. Research has shown that working with the drinker’s marriage and family relationships yields more durable treatment outcomes. Dr. Michael Rorbaugh and his colleagues have developed a treatment protocol in which alcohol is viewed as the invader.

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