The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital TherapyW. W. Norton & Company, 17/08/1999 - 480 páginas The Marriage Clinic presents a complete marital therapy program based on John Gottman's much heralded research on marital success and failure. Here one will find not only a wide range of succinct and useful assessment procedures, but also a highly specific, research-based, and modularized treatment program. In addition, there are dozens of questionnaires and interview protocols to be used in both assessment and intervention.In prospective, long-term research with over 700 couples, Gottman has discovered certain factors that distinguish happy, stable couples from both unstable, ultimately divorcing couples and stable but unhappy couples. These findings, which are explained here in understandable, nontechnical language, form the basis of his Sound Marital House theory of marriage, which guides the new therapy. This therapy has two goals: changing the marital friendship and teaching couples to regulate conflict. Despite the high aims of much marital therapy, Gottman found that most marital conflicts involve fundamentally unresolvable relationship issues called "perpetual problems." He shows how therapists can help spouses move from gridlock to dialogue on these issues. Solvable problems can be resolved more easily when the couple has a strong marital friendship. He gives therapists the tools to teach spouses five fundamental skills to develop and strengthen their friendship: softened start-up, accepting influence, repair and de-escalation, compromise, and physiological soothing. Gottman compares his clinic to a restaurant, where clients are offered a menu of treatment formats, from psychoeducation for specific issues to extended therapy to repair a badly damaged marital friendship. Therapists, too, can choose among the questionnaires and strategies for those that fit the needs of particular couples. Whatever their choice, they will find that their practice is greatly enriched by the scientifically-based offerings of The Marriage Clinic. |
Índice
Repair and the Core Triad of Balance | |
A Theory of Marriage | |
ASSESSMENT | |
The Basic Questionnaires | |
The Disasters and Masters of Marriage | |
INTERVENTION | |
Enhancing the Marital Friendship | |
Life Dreams and Shared Meanings | |
Avoiding Relapse | |
Working as a Team and Terminating Therapy | |
Emotion and Metaemotion | |
Buffering Children from Marital Conflict | |
Appendix B The Sound Marital House Questionnaires | |
The Basic Interviews | |
References | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy John M. Gottman Pré-visualização limitada - 1999 |
Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy John M. Gottman Pré-visualização indisponível - 1999 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
A N D SD accepting influence anger another’s assessment behavior can’t Checklist child client clinical conversation couple’s couples Deal Definitely Definitely A Little Definitely Definitely Definitely didn’t disagree discuss divorce Emma emotional emotionally expressed False family therapy feel felt Fondness and Admiration Four Horsemen George goals Gottman gridlocked Haim Ginott husband important intervention interview issue kids laughs listening Little A Little Love Maps marital interaction marital therapy marriage Marriage Clinic married Meta-Emotion Never Rarely Occasionally Okay one’s parents partner partner’s favorite perpetual problems person physiological problem A problem psychopathology questionnaire relationship repair attempts response rituals role SA A N D SD sadness SD SD SD sentiment override sexual shared meaning someone Sound Marital House spouse spouse’s stress talk tell therapist there’s things True wife wife’s Yeah you’re