Delaware Professional Counselors Association

DPCA is a growing community of mental health counselors who strive to advance the profession and practice of professional counseling in Delaware. We also provide continuing education opportunities through conferences, workshops, and other means that assist professional mental health counselors and others in updating and enhancing their competencies.

If you share our interest in training and credentialing of professional counselors, in research, in positive relations with other professional organizations and in effective advocacy of counseling-relating issues, we invite you to join our programs of public awareness designed to enhance recognition of professional counseling and its practitioners.

February 17, 2012 Presentation

Bruce E. Palmer, LPCMH will be speaking on the topic:
The Couples Journey - Stages of Relationship.

This presentation of Schwartz and Schwartz’s (Becoming a Couple, Prentice Hall, 1980) model of the developmental stages of relationship in the context of therapeutic intervention explores how the movement from ‘confluence’ to ‘separate and related’ styles of interaction can be conceptualized as part of a 5 stage process.

The presentation will examine the difficulties and joys encountered in each developmental stage, as well as discuss and brainstorm possible intervention strategies useful to each stage. A series of articles I written by Bruce Palmer for Living Well magazine will be used as the basis of the presentation. Click here to download these compiled articles.

Upcoming Workshop on May 3, 2012

James M. Walsh, Ph.D. will be speaking on the topic:
Layers of Forgiveness: Retrieving Trait Anger in The Compulsive Gambler

This workshop focuses on trait-level anger, its etiology and manifestation in the addicted person, and the methods that facilitate relief in the moment and resolution for a lifetime.

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