Course curriculum

  1. Part 1 of Intro to PACT – Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy with Dr. Hans Stahlschmidt - Free Preview

  2. Part 1 of Intro to PACT – Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy with Dr. Hans Stahlschmidt - Video 2

  3. Part 1 of Intro to PACT – Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy with Dr. Hans Stahlschmidt - Video 3

  4. Part 1 of Intro to PACT – Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy with Dr. Hans Stahlschmidt - Video 4

  5. Post-Test

  6. Course Evaluation

About this course

  • $36.00
  • 2 hours of video content

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Course Description

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This course will introduce a different approach to working with couples. It suggests that couples will co-develop a relationship that reflects a deep mutual care system and is also a growth model that encourages and supports the partners to grow and prosper. Major principles of this care system are building safety and security with each other and putting the relationship first, as well as finding agreements that organize their relationship in a secure-functioning way and develop effective co-regulation. Pact is both a bottom-up and a top-down model of couple therapy. This approach allows more freedom for the therapist to use the self for the benefit of the therapy.

Educational Goals

Attendees will learn about the main psychological and biological domains that PACT is built on and that drives the treatment of couples toward the development of secure functioning and the main components needed for secure functioning. The course will cover the unique role the therapist plays in PACT and how this can be different, fun and freeing.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and understand the 3 Domains of PACT and their linkage

  • List the 3 components of the PACT goal of Secure Functioning.

  • List 3 aspects of Secure Functioning.

  • Identify at least 1 aspect of the brain's error potential that contributes to challenges between a couple.

CEs

This course meets the qualifications for 2.0 hrs of continuing education (CE) credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT (Provider #57173) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

About the Instructor

Dr. Hans Stahlschmidt has been part of the PACT Institute for over 13 years. Hans is a highly experienced therapist who works with couples and individuals in private practice in Berkeley, CA. He believes that navigating a primary relationship is one of the most difficult human endeavors but also one of the most rewarding ones — a challenge that will make us grow. Hans has studied, worked, and taught in Germany as well as in the United States. He holds a German psychology degree from the Freie Universität Berlin and practiced in Berlin as a licensed psychologist. He received his PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. While drawing upon a range of psychological approaches, he has made the PACT model his theoretical and practice-related
Hans Stahlschmidt, PhD

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