Course curriculum

  • 1

    Interview with Stan Tatkin

    • Stan Tatkin Talking about working with couples from his PACT perspective
  • 2

    PACT: Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy

    • PACT: Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (Part 1) by Stan Tatkin

    • Copy of PACT (Part 1) Quiz

    • PACT: Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (Part 2) by Stan Tatkin

    • Copy of PACT Quiz

Reviews

5 star rating

Very informative

Arisja Oberholzer

This was a really good course that helped increase my knowledge and understanding, can find ways to use it in sessions, very good

This was a really good course that helped increase my knowledge and understanding, can find ways to use it in sessions, very good

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Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy: A Participa...

Stephen Holmes

Stan Tatkin's PACT model makes so much sense. It struck me that prior to acquainting myself with PACT, intuitively practiced, cross checking, cross questio...

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Stan Tatkin's PACT model makes so much sense. It struck me that prior to acquainting myself with PACT, intuitively practiced, cross checking, cross questioning, cross interpreting, down the middle, using therapeutic containers and staging. I didn't have a psychobiological model within this practice could be embedded. Now that I do have a model and having had the various strategic elements of therapeutic practice made explicit within a client/therapist safety framework, I am curious to know more and proceed along my practitioner journey with a greater sense of purpose and direction. The model also highlights the importance of assessing and addressing attachment issues when working with couples. Using "down the middle" strategy to promote in an experiential way, being relationally focused as opposed to being adversarial. (living alone together) is brilliant. My take away is being aware of your own therapist behaviour and attuning to the clients' lightning fast emotional processing is essential to effectively engage with the couples therapeutic enterprise.

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Expert

Stan Tatkin

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy. Stan’s clinical practice is in Calabasas, California. He teaches and supervises family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, California, and is an associate clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. He is known for integrating various theories and models to form the foundation of the comprehensive principles and methodologies he teaches. As a result, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, California, honored Tatkin with the Educator of the Year award 2014. Stan is on the board of directors of Lifespan Learning Institute and serves as a member on the Relationships First Advisory Board, a nonprofit organization founded by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt.

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