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How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free

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Do you have clients and patients who are stressed because of couple issues? Learn powerful exercises and skills to help your clients develop clear communication, learn how to reassure each other and establish good will, and to resolve the anger and hurt of past problems. Using this ingenious method of cooperative problem solving, you can help any couple transform arguing and fighting into problem-solving and cooperation. You’ll learn the five steps to cooperative problem solving – and how to apply them.. With them, you can show couples how to work together in a mutually satisfying, mutually beneficial partnership —the antidote to co-dependency and struggle.

This course is based on the book, How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free created by Tessina, Tina, Ph.D, & Smith, Riley, M.A.

Course Material Author

Tessina, Tina, Ph.D, & Smith, Riley, M.A.
Dr. Tessina, is the author of numerous books. She lectures and conducts workshops nationwide on all of her books, and has appeared on all major television and radio shows, including Donohue, Oprah, Geraldo, and Larry King Live. She is frequently quoted as an expert in magazines such as "Glamor", "Women's World", "Better Homes and Gardens" and "Cosmopolitan". Mr. Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been helping couples and individuals create satisfying relationships since 1974. He supervises and trains therapists in addition to his psychotherapy practice.

Tessina, Tina, Ph.D, & Smith, Riley, M.A. authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

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Course Objectives:

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. to learn the five steps of cooperative problems solving
  2. to develop a model for equal partnership and mutual cooperation in a marriage or couple relationship
  3. to learn a method of teaching your clients the skills for creating cooperation and a satisfying relationship
  4. to understand how differences can make a couple stronger when they learn how to effectively solve problems in every aspect of their relationship: money, sex, communication, time issues, equal power, and mutual benefit.

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CE Learning Systems, LLC is an independent provider of continuing medical education. CE Learning Systems, LLC has no proprietary or financial interest in medical or healthcare products over which the FDA (USA) or EMA (EU) has regulatory authority.

In accordance with our disclosure policies, CE Learning Systems, LLC is committed to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited continuing education. These policies include assigning relevance to, and mitigating, all perceived or real conflicts of interest between any individual with control over the content and any ineligible company (commercial interest).

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  1. Individual relationship(s) or lack thereof, and its nature, with any/all ineligible company, and
  2. any investigational, off-label, or non-FDA approved content or discussion

CE Learning Systems, LLC has reviewed these disclosures, assigned relevance based on the relationship and scope of content, and identified those with the potential to compromise the goals and educational integrity of the education. Relevant relationships, or lack thereof, are shared with the learner.

Education has been independently peer-reviewed to validate content, mitigate identified conflicts of interest, and ensure:

  1. All recommendations involving clinical medicine is based on evidence that is accepted within the medical profession as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients.
  2. All scientific research referred to, reported, or used in accredited continuing education in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis.
  3. Content is appropriate, fair and balanced, unbiased, referenced, and non-promotional.
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The planners have reported the following: There are no relevant disclosures.

Course Material Author

The authors have disclosed any disclosures within the material.

Course Creator: Keith Gibson, Ph.D.
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There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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