STAN TATKIN – What Every Therapist Ought to Know

Dear friends,

I am excited to invite you to join me in my new eight-week online course on What Every Therapist Ought to Know: Attachment, Arousal Regulation, and Clinical Techniques in Couple Therapy.

This course is based on a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy^® (PACT) and is created primarily with couple therapists in mind. However, the principles and skills taught in this course will easily translate for use by individual, family, and group therapists.

PACT is an innovative, nonlinear model that integrates attachment theory, arousal regulation, and developmental neuroscience. In this course, we will focus on attachment theory and arousal regulation.

Early attachment patterns influence brain and nervous system development, leaving lasting effects on relationships. Attachment theory identifies three main styles of interpersonal relating. We will examine each attachment style, including relevant developmental issues, common defense mechanisms, and how to identify these styles and work most effectively with people of each.

We will also explore how to assess arousal regulation. You will learn basic PACT interviewing skills, ways to help partners effectively regulate each other, and other simple but powerful intervention techniques used by PACT therapists.

What sets PACT apart from other models of couple therapy is its emphasis on what we call secure functioning. The PACT therapist’s primary goal is to move couples toward secure functioning—that is, toward a relationship characterized by true mutuality, collaboration, and equal power; one that is fair, just, and sensitive to the needs of each partner. In short, partners must care for each other while caring for the self.

In this course, you will discover the value of secure functioning and learn how to bring it home both with your clients and in your own relationships.

In addition to the weekly videos in the eight-week course, I look forward to the online sessions with you. In these meetings, we will have a chance to chat. I will be able to answer your questions and guide you as you begin to integrate PACT principles and skills into your own clinical practice.

Warmly,

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT

What is health?

The word health refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well-being. Healthcare exists to help people maintain this optimal state of health.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), healthcare costs in the United States were $3.5 trillionTrusted Source in 2017.

However, despite this expenditure, people in the U.S. have a lower life expectancy than people in other developed countries. This is due to a variety of factors, including access to healthcare and lifestyle choices.

Good health is central to handling stress and living a longer, more active life. In this article, we explain the meaning of good health, the types of health a person needs to consider, and how to preserve good health.

What is health?

In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO)Trusted Source defined health with a phrase that modern authorities still apply.

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

In 1986, the WHOTrusted Source made further clarifications:

“A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.”

This means that health is a resource to support an individual’s function in wider society, rather than an end in itself. A healthful lifestyle provides the means to lead a full life with meaning and purpose.

In 2009, researchers publishing inThe LancetTrusted Source defined health as the ability of a body to adapt to new threats and infirmities.

They base this definition on the idea that the past few decades have seen modern science take significant strides in the awareness of diseases by understanding how they work, discovering new ways to slow or stop them, and acknowledging that an absence of pathology may not be possible.

STAN TATKIN – What Every Therapist Ought to Know

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