The 10 Principles of Effective Couples Therapy: What Science Tells Us and Beyond with Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D. and John Gottman, Ph.D. – John M. Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman

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Includes Bonus Talk by Esther Perel – The New Rules of Love & Commitment

John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, world-renowned for their work on marital stability and divorce prediction, present a comprehensive review of the science of successful relationships. They will also present research-based interventions to transform disasters into healthy relationships.

As they will demonstrate, their discoveries highlight how happy marriages come in many different styles – but not necessarily in accord with popular, or even clinical, preconceptions of what they should be. The Gottmans will separate myth from reality in our ideas about what works in developing their craft of couples therapists. They will also go beyond interventions to explore the inner world of the couples therapist, including the fears and frustrations every couples therapist faces. Finally, they will focus on how to stay calm in the midst of couples’ stormy conflicts, how to have hope when couples are hopeless, and adjust when couples’ beliefs or values are at odds with our own.

Esther Perel, one of the world’s most original and insightful thinkers about couples, sexuality, and the peculiar paradoxes besetting modern marriage in the Western world, will bring her rare gift for speaking the unspoken. She will articulate the hidden psychological states most people can’t yet put into words. Esther Perel will present the complicated and contradictory needs that are shaping marriage and commitment today.

1. Relate Gottmans’ 40 years of research on the dynamics of couples relationships to their principles of effective couples therapeutic assessment and clinical interventions
2. Breakdown Gottmans’ Sound Relationship House Theory as it relates to achieving desired treatment outcomes
3. Articulate the principles of effective couples therapy that help to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions
4. Summarize the components of a comprehensive couples assessment as it relates to clinical case conceptualization
5. Apply clinical interventions that increase couples’ ability to manage conflict, create intimacy, foster fondness and admiration, and create a positive perspective of their relationship
6. Teach clients the 5 steps of relationship repair for processing past fights, regrettable incidents or past emotional injuries.

• What is True About Couples?
• Findings Regarding Friendship
• Findings Regarding Conflict Management
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • Criticism
  • Contempt
  • Defensiveness
  • Stonewalling
• Characteristics of Creating Shared Meaning
• Sound Relationship House Therapy
• Principles of Doing Good Couples Therapy
• How to Assess
  • Oral History
  • Questionnaires
  • Individual Assessments
  • Conflict Management
    • Skills
    • Interventions
• Exercises
  • Love Map
  • Open-Ended Questions
  • Stress-Reducing Conversation
  • Rituals of Connection
  • Strengthening Sexual Intimacy
  • Creating Shared Meaning