Counseling And Coaching Blended Family Children And Couples
- Thu, Mar 06, 2025
- Forest Hill Baptist Church, 2101 Old Hickory Blvd, Nashville, TN 37215
Stream live virtually or attend in-person. Register here
"Counseling and Coaching Blended Family Children and Couples" is a continuing education workshop by Ron Deal, LMFT, LPC for professional therapists, graduate students, premarital counselors, and ministry leaders.
Sponsor: Christian Counseling Professionals International, continuing education conference
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 9:00 - 3:30 pm
Forest Hill Baptist Church, 2101 Old Hickory Blvd, Nashville, TN 37215
Contact: Nancy Brown, [email protected]
Participants will learn:
- Family process dynamics that are different in blended families than in biological families.
- How attachment, loss, and loyalty issues create competing attachments and barriers to family integration.
- A developmental model for understanding family integration.
- Practical therapeutic procedures in working with stepcouples and their children and learn how to discern traditional therapeutic interventions not suited for stepfamilies.
- To describe the differing roles of biological parents and stepparents as they relate to raising children in stepfamilies and marital cohesion.
- Coaching applications of these clinical principles for those who do premarital counseling, marriage education, and/or marriage ministry.
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PLUS, participants will be exposed to the fundamental concepts of Restoration Therapy (as demonstrated in the Deal's new book The Mindful Marriage) and how they apply to blended family dynamics.
Testimonials:
"Very encouraging and hope for blended families. Prehab, not rehab!"
-- Jodie, Georgia
"Ron offers necessary tools and perspective in a non-threatening, non-defensive way."
-- Keith, Minnesota
- 94% rated Ron a 9 or 10 (on a 10-scale) as a speaker.
- 99% of event attendees said they were highly likely to recommend Ron's stepfamily conference to a friend or family member.
- 94.7% rated the Building A Successful Stepfamily conference a 9 or 10 (on a 10-scale).
"Very relevant topics and great insights on dealing with real-life situations!"
-- Jonathan, Utah
