Articles

The following articles by Dr. Heitler are available free of charge.  Because the articles are in PDF format, you must have Adobe Acrobat software for download and viewing.  Click here to download a copy now.
 

• Apologies

 
• Apologies and Forgiveness
   
• A Pleasure To Kill You
   
• Handouts with Metro Talk, A Pleasure To Kill You
   
• Combined Individual/Marital Therapy:  A Conflict-Resolution Framework and Ethical Considerations
   
• Communication, Listening and Conflict-resolution Skills
   
• Conflict Resolution for Counselors and Couples
   
• Conflict Resolution Therapy
   
• Fix - It Talk
   
• From Conflict to Resolution:  Psychologist/Divorce-Attorney Collaborations
   
• Helping Two I's and a We:  Interweaving Individual and Couple Treatments
   
• Keep Your House A Loving Home with Sharing and Separateness
   
• Marriage Education with Power of Two for Refugees
   
• On Borderlines and Narcissistics:  A Marriage Skills Alternative to Pathologization
   
• Surviving the Holiday Roller-Coaster
   
• Teaching Marriage Skills
   
• Terrorism as Large Scale Domestic Violence
   
• Therapeutic Mediation: An Alternative to Costly Litigation
   
• Therapists as Experts in Conflict Resolution
   
• Treating High Conflict Couples

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Lecture and Workshop Topics
 

Availability for continuing education for mental health professionals:

Dr. Heitler is currently accepting invitations for her 2009 - 2010 schedule of lectures and workshops.  She is available to present on the following topics, or on others that the host organization and she mutually agree upon.  In general, she prefers to conduct workshops on Fridays.  For your choice of dates, we recommend that you contact us as soon as possible.

For additional information or to reserve a workshop date:
Call Janet or Teresa at 303-388-4211 or Email.

From Conflict to Resolution

Conflict-focused therapy offers a comprehensive conceptual framework that can guide treatment of most emotional disorders. A fully integrative perspective, conflict-focused treatment expedites work with individuals, with couples, and with families. In the is workshop Dr. Heitler presents

• the basic skills of conflict resolution that therapists need to propel therapeutic progress,

• a conflict-focused framework for understanding psychopathology and guiding treatment,

• and the innovative techniques that make this comprehensive treatment strategy so effective and efficient.

Working with Couples in Conflict

Couple therapy can become an increasingly essential treatment modality for distressed marriages, and also for efficient and enduring treatment of individuals' depression and anger disorders. Conflict resolution techniques can be applied also to mediation work and to treatment with pre-divorce couples. This workshop includes analysis of the videotape The Angry Couple: Conflict-Focused Treatment.

Treating Anxiety, Depression, and Anger: Individual and Couple Treatment Strategies

Anxiety and depression are highly responsive to conflict resolution treatment techniques. Try looking up anger in the DSM-IV. ... Not there?!!

For a symptom that doesn't even make it into the DSM-IV index, most therapists see--and receive--a lot of anger. Anger is often the ugliest, frequently the scariest, and probably the most prevalent emotion most therapists encounter. This workshop offers multi-faceted perspectives on treatment with angry individuals and couples including strategies for when patients' anger turns on you, the therapist.

Conflict-focused treatment uses anxiety, depression, and anger to identify patients' key issues. The treatment is broadly integrative, incorporating psychodynamic exploration plus behavioral retraining, both in a systems context.

Dr. Heitler's video The Angry Couple: Conflict-Focused Treatment, which shows Dr. Heitler working with a difficult couples in five sessions over the course of a therapy, brings to life the theory and techniques Dr. Heitler presents. Her lectures plus analyses of this video create a lively and very practically useful workshop.

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