{"id":216088,"date":"2024-07-11T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=216088"},"modified":"2024-07-08T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T23:15:31","slug":"uconn-magazine-toward-a-more-perfect-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/07\/uconn-magazine-toward-a-more-perfect-union\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Toward a More Perfect Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America is in need of marriage counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Enter\u00a0Bill Doherty \u201978 Ph.D.\u00a0He\u2019s been a couples therapist for some 40 years \u2014 but over the past eight, he\u2019s taken on a new type of client.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not involved in anything political until right after the 2016 presidential election,\u201d says Doherty. That\u2019s when two of his colleagues asked him to help get 10 Hillary Clinton voters and 10 Donald Trump voters together to try to talk with \u2014 and understand \u2014 one another. \u201cThe country was sort of in shock. I had a lot of experience \u2014 in the therapy world, but also in community engagement \u2014 and I knew a fair amount about facilitating groups. The idea was to see if they could get past the stereotypes of each other, and find some common ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2024\/06\/26\/toward-a-more-perfect-union\/?utm_campaign=magazine_summer24&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couples counseling for America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":216091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2235,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1902],"class_list":["post-216088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 07:51:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216106,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216088\/revisions\/216106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/216091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216088"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=216088"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=216088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}