Couple Recovery Development Approach: A Relational Therapy for Helping Couples Manage Long-Term or Chronic Conditions
CPSY x269
| Days | Friday, June 8th, 2012 |
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| Times | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
| Room | Loyola Hall, Room 136 |
| Credit | 0.6 CEU (or 6 CE Hours) |
| Cost | $140.00 |
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Description
When one or both partners are recovering from long-term or chronic physical or psychiatric diseases or disorders, such as recovery from addiction, diabetes, cancer, chronic pain, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, traditional models of treatment and recovery emphasizes individual treatment and ignores the couple relationship. Yet, more and more we are learning from the latest research that the couple relationship plays a significant role in influencing positive recovery outcomes when included as an adjunctive therapy. This workshop addresses the missing part of treatment for so many people – managing the relationship while managing the disorder or disease.
Using brief presentations, demonstrations and experiential exercises, participants will have the opportunity to learn to use four specific interventions and techniques to develop and strengthen “couple recovery”, a relational approach to managing chronic or long-term physical or psychiatric conditions. This research-based model of couple recovery, called the “Couple Recovery Development Approach,” integrates and blends techniques and recovery concepts based on Dr. Bob Navarra’s ongoing research on couples and recovery through the Mental Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA) with the Gottman Method Therapy developed by Drs. John & Julie Gottman. The CRDA model is an evolving model created to help couples address addiction recovery issues, and can be easily adapted to address any chronic or long-term medical or psychiatric issue couples are facing.
Instructor
Faculty Profile
Robert Navarra,
Dr. Navarra is a Certified Gottman Therapist and Consultant, offering Gottman Couples Workshops, Level 1 and Level 2 Gottman Method Training Workshops. He recently co-authored a chapter with John Gottman titled Gottman Method Therapy: From Theory to Practice, in Case Studies in Couple Therapy: Theory-Based Approaches (Carson & Casado-Kehoe, Eds., 2011). Dr. Navarra is a Research Scientist at the Relationship Research Institute (Founder and Executive Director, John Gottman) where he and Dr. Gottman are currently collaborating on research, designing a randomized clinical trial integrating Dr. Navarra?s relational model of addiction treatment within the Gottman Method Therapy theory and framework. Additionally, he is Research Associate at Mental Research Institute and Co-founder of the Center for Couples in Recovery at MRI where he developed the Couples Recovery Development Approach, a relational approach to addiction treatment. He has presented his original research at conferences for AAMFT, CAMFT, and the Gottman Institute Publications include: Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Co-Morbidity, published in Gottman Level ll Training Manual (2009); and Family Response to Adults and Alcohol, in Family Response to Alcohol Problems, (Fischer, Muslow, and Korinek, Eds., 2007). Dr. Navarra maintains a private practice in San Carlos, California. He may be reached at: Work: (650) 593-8087 Website: www.robertnavarra.net Email: drbobnavarra@gmail.com.
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