| The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy (Norton Professional Books) |  | Author: John M. Gottman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
List Price: $49.00
Buy New: $35.42
as of 2/11/2012 20:33 EST details
You Save: $13.58 (28%)
New (25) Used (25) from $24.96
Seller: Amazon.com
Sales Rank: 58,563
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 452
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0393702820
EAN: 9780393702828
ASIN: 0393702820
Publication Date: August 17, 1999
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 9 to 14 days
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
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.
|
| |
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
