lecture, videotaped couples sessions, questionnaires, and experiential exercises, you’ll learn a powerful “4-R” Relationship Analysis that helps couples Reveal underlying time discrepancies, Revalue differences, Revise unsuccessful time patterns, and Rehearse new relationship rhythms that can result in an enhanced emotional connection. Rather than just hoping they’ll “find time,” couples will discover how to proactively maintain a healthy balance between work time and “life time.”
Peter Fraenkel, Ph.D., is associate professor of psychology at the City University of New York and director of the Ackerman Institute’s Center for Work and the Family. He’s the author of Sync Your Relationship, Save Your Marriage: Four Steps to Getting Back on Track. To learn more, visit http://www.ackerman.org/centers_time.htm.


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By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people!
Peter Fraenkel • Sunday All Day