Rabbinic Marriage and Family Counseling: The Rabbi’s Role – Part I

Rabbinic Marriage and Family Counseling:
The Rabbi’s Role – Part I

0
YEARS

The average couple waits 6 yrs before seeking help for marital problems. (John Gottman)

Are you prepared to help those couples in your community?

This course will empower you with skills and techniques to better assist in counseling couples and families through challenges encountered. The course explores the rabbi’s role is in each situation and how to effectively engage and partner with the couples, families and mental health professionals in formulating and implementing a counseling plan.

Sample Topics:

  • Improving Communication
  • The Sandwich Generation
  • Materialism
  • Struggling with God and Religion
  • Boundaries: Within and Without Relationships
  • Developing a Healthy Attitude and Conversation about Sex
  • Parents Talking to Children about Sex
  • The Stress of Dealing with so Many Competing Priorities
  • Retirement, Empty Nest and Second Marriages
  • Dating
  • The Wedding Ceremony
  • The Impact of Illness and Death on One’s Marriage and Family
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11 / 1 HOUR SESSIONS

Course Coordinator:

Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Schwartz

Rabbi, Congregation Adath Israel of the JEC, Clinical Director, Center for Anxiety Relief, Union, NJ

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