LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS AND HEARTACHES:

A Challenge to Therapeutic Interventions

The Jungian psychotherapist, Thomas Moore, once noted that the majority of problems for which people present to psychotherapy are the problems of love. And yet, it is rare that the psychotherapeutic literature deals explicitly with the common, messy and sad romantic conundrums that clients seek to discuss with their therapists.

Marital therapy texts often deal with how to improve relationships and often presume that this is the intent of both presenting parties. Problems in sexuality and mate selection are often traced seamlessly to developmental difficulties and are solved in the therapeutic relationship. The ending of relationships is often discussed with a grief and loss template as a source of reference for the therapist.

This current training aims to discuss and provide a therapeutic framework for working with those uncomfortable and perplexing problems that fall outside of the elegant discussions of textbooks, but which so often make up larger tracks of therapeutic practice, such as:

ENDORSED FOR 14 APS COUNSELLING POINTS

Members of other APS Colleges and non-college members may claim the equivalent generalist points. Certificate of Attendance will be supplied detailing hours of training, trainer's qualifications and course content.

PAUL GIBNEY Ph. D. is a psychotherapist and family therapist in private practice in Brisbane. Paul graduated in Social Work from the University of Queensland in 1980 and gained a doctorate from the same institution in 1993. From 1995 to 2005, he had a senior lectureship in the Social Work Department at the University of Queensland, where he taught advanced case work, family therapy theory and practice, and advanced skills in interpersonal helping. Paul, over the last seven years, has consulted extensively to government and non-government organizations in the areas of staff supervision, child protection, residential care, youth and adult mental health, and complex case supervisions.

Paul has lectured and presented workshops throughout Australia and New Zealand. His 2003 text,'The Pragmatics of Therapeutic Practice' is a set text in five Masters of Counselling Courses in Australia and he is the author of over 20 academic papers.

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PERTH

Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th June 2010
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'THE PRAGMATICS OF THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE' by PAUL GIBNEY Ph.D

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