Washington School of Psychiatry

love and loss:

Working with Couples through Complex Transitions

Presenters:

Sharon Covington, MSW

Deborah Fox, MSW

Joyce Lowenstein, PHD

Charles McCormack, MA, MSW

Fridays 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

February 19, 2010

March 5, 12, 19, 2010

April 23, 30, 2010

May 14, 21, 2010

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course will focus on the internal world of couples as they face developmental transitions and potential crises in the relationship. Emphasis will be on effectively linking issues of the couple’s past with the present. Identifying and working with transference and projective identification will be an important focus.

Topics will be addressed in two week segments and will include the following:

● Couple formation
● Infertility, pregnancy loss and assisted reproduction

● Change in sexual desire due to aging and illness
● Relationships with adult children

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The course is designed for counselors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists who want to work with couples.

Objectives

After completing this course the participant will be able to:

1. Recognize two techniques the therapist uses to create a holding space for couples work

2. Recognize the use of projective identification in couples

3. Describe three strategies to help couples mourn losses specific to developmental transitions

faculty

Sharon N. Covington, MSW, BCD is an associate investigator in the Section on Women’s Health Research, Developmental Endocrinology Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health. In addition, she is Director of Psychological Support Services for the Shady Grove Reproductive Science Centers of Metropolitan Washington, DC and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. . She maintains an active clinical practice, is involved in ART research, and lectures and writes extensively on infertility counseling issues, most notably co-editing/writing Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians.

Megan Flood, MSW (Co-chair) is in private practice in Washington, DC. She is a member of the Faculty and Steering Committee of the Washington School of Psychiatry Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program

Deborah J. Fox, MSW. is a licensed independent clinical social worker in solo private practice doing psychotherapy with individuals, couples and groups. She is a certified Sex Therapist and a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, Advanced Clinician

Nancy Lithgow, MSW, RN, BCD, (Co-chair) is in full time private practice with individuals, couples in Washington DC. She is a member of the Faculty and Steering Committee of the Washington School of Psychiatry Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program

Joyce Lowenstein, PhD has a full time private practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with individuals, couples and families in Washington, D.C. She is the past Co-Chair of the Psychoanalytic Object Relations Family and Couples Program of the Washington School of Psychiatry. She is a member of the faculty of ICP&P and Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of numerous publications.

Charles McCormack, MA, MSW, BCD has a full time private psychotherapy practice with couples and individuals as well as supervision and consultation of other mental health professionals in Towson Maryland. He is the author of Treating Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with Ruthless Aggression and Severe Resistance and "An object relations approach to the understanding and treatment of the personality disordered marriage". In Family Treatment of Personality Disorders: Interpersonal Approaches to Relationship Change.

SCHEDULE

Date	Presenter	Topic
February 19, 2010	Charles McCormack, MSW	From the Image-Inary to the Real: Transitions in Dating and Marriage
March 5, 2010	Charles McCormack, MSW	Holding and Containment: The Therapist’s Management of Progress and Regress in Couple’s Therapy
March 12, 2010	Sharon Covington, MSW	Healing Pregnancy Loss: Helping Couples Grieve
March 19, 2010	Sharon Covington MSW	Navigating Infertility and Assisted Reproduction in Couples Therapy
April 23, 2010	Deborah Fox, MSW	Principles of Sex Therapy
April 30, 2010	Deborah Fox, MSW	Sexuality: Keeping it Vital Throughout Adult Life
May 14, 2010	Joyce Lowenstein, Ph.D.	Re-inventing the Couple when the nest empties and/or gets re-occupied
May 21, 2010	Joyce Lowenstein, Ph.D.	The Aging Couple: Who were we, who are we, and who do we want to become?

Location

The Washington School of Psychiatry
5028 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC, 20016
Directions

CE/CME Award - 16

Fee - $480.00

continuing education

The Washington School of Psychiatry is approved by the American Psychological Association to provide continuing education for psychologists. The Washington School maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

The School is approved by the Social Work Board of the State of Maryland as a provider of continuing education for social workers.

The School is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors. We adhere to the NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines. Provider # 6388

The School is approved by the Medical Society of Maryland (MEDCHI) for continuing education for psychiatrists.

Registration

Please call the School at 202-237-2700 to register. You can also use the conference registration form to register for this seminar by faxing it to WSP at 202-237-2730, or mail the form to: Washington School of Psychiatry, 5028 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Ste. 400, Washington, DC 20016.

Cancellations and Refunds

Refunds will be made for cancellations received at the School office in writing prior to February 11, 2010 and are subject to a non - refundable administrative fee of $50.

Disclosure of Commercial Support and the Unlabeled use of a commercial product. No member of the planning committee and no member of the faculty for this event have a financial interest or other relationship with any commercial product(s) discussed in this educational presentation.