The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy – John M. Gottman

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Summary

• In recent years, research has identified key, measurable elements of happy and stable long-term relationships.

• They include trust, attunement, listening compassionately and nondefensively within conflict, a relational safe haven, and emotional commitment.

• In this workshop, you’ll acquire tools for approaching couples therapy more effectively.

• You’ll discover: How to enhance a couple’s capacity for gratitude, cherishing, and commitment Interventions that increase couples’ ability to deescalate anger, manage conflict, and repair ruptures in the relationship How to stay calm in the midst of couples’ relationship conflicts and have hope when they feel hopeless *Please note this is the same content as The Magic Trio: What We Know Makes Couples Therapy Work at the 2018 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, you cannot receive self-study credit for this program if you have already attended the live activity.

• Demonstrate how to enhance a couple’s capacity for gratitude, cherishing, and commitment Apply interventions that increase couples’ ability to deescalate anger, manage conflict, and repair ruptures in the relationship Employ personal calming techniques in calm in the midst of couples’ relationship conflicts and have hope when they feel hopeless Sharpening Concepts of What Works Get the Data Love Lab Creation Gottmans’ New Love Lab Gathering the Narrative and Physiological Measures Gottman Relationship Checkup Questionnaire What Predicts Future of a Relationship?