Moral Development in Couple Therapy

Steven I. Ries, EdD, is a counselor in private practice in Maui, Hawaii, and was the co-founder and program director of the Human Development Institute in La Grange, Illinois. Previously in his career, he worked as a graduate research assistant under Lawrence Kohlberg at the Center for Moral Education at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later, Kohlberg became his dissertation committee chairman and Ries graduated with his doctorate from Harvard University in 1981.

1. The Science Of Morality 2. The Underlying Psychodynamics and Interactions of Adult Pre-conventional (Stages 1 and/or 2) with Conventional (Stage 3) Moral Reasoning: A Clinical and Behavioral Perspective 3. Typical Interactions Of Couples Conventional In Moral Judgment/Reasoning 4. Historical Events of the 1960’s and 1970’s Affecting Moral Development 5. Implementing the Conceptual Template to Facilitate Moral Development 6. Subjectivity and Objectivity: Moral Reasoning 7. Cognition: Subjectivity and/or Relativity and Objectivity 8. Clinically Identifying Moral Subjectivism/Relativism through Implementing Moral Dilemmas 9. Organization of the Conceptual Template 10. Universal Conceptual Template Program