Full Course Description

Treating Affairs and Trauma

This 17-hour training includes videos of Drs. John and Julie Gottman working with actual couples in their private practice, as well as engaging presentations and discussions about Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Participants will receive a PDF of the clinical training manual filled with interventions that can immediately be put into practice, plus Powerpoint slides, presentation material, and articles. All participants will receive a Certificate of Completion for this workshop, from The Gottman Institute.

Treating Trauma

Dr. Julie Gottman describes the impact of PTSD on committed relationships using real examples of trauma caused by early abandonment, childhood abuse, and military combat. She demonstrates a therapeutic approach that interweaves individual PTSD treatment with Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Watch Paul and Shantel Patu, the couple featured in our Level 1 Clinical Training films, as they return to therapy with the Gottmans eight years later. These new films demonstrate powerful couples interventions for PTSD and trauma.

Treating Affairs

Dr. John Gottman unfolds the science behind trust and betrayal and provides the tools needed to create trust and commitment in love relationships. The Gottmans describe their impactful “Atone, Attune, and Attach” model for treating affairs. This model provides clinicians with an unbiased approach that compassionately serves both partners as they struggle to rebuild a collapsed marriage. See brand new films of the Gottmans in their clinical office engaging in intensive therapy with a military couple, a case in which the husband had an affair and suffered from PTSD following his 12 back-to-back deployments overseas. Learn the important variations in assessment and intervention techniques that empower couples to not only rebuild their relationship, but also create immunity from future betrayals.

Participants working in the following fields will benefit from this training:

If you work with couples where there’s been an affair, or where either partner has experienced trauma, this training is for you! It is intended for professionals who want to enhance their competence in conceptualization, assessment, treatment planning, and intervention with couples where an affair and/or trauma has created pain and struggle in their relationship.

  • Mental health counseling providers
  • Clergy / Military Chaplains
  • Coaches
  • Professors/Teachers
  • Students and interns

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Theorize the psychometric soundness of assessment instruments used to diagnose PTSD, including tools for structured interviews, self-report scales, and psycho-physiological assessment methods.
  2. Distinguish between the neurobiological changes associated with PTSD that occur in the amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.
  3. Evaluate the effectiveness of popular individual therapies for treating PTSD.
  4. Inspect research studies on couples therapy methods for treating PTSD.
  5. Defend the practice of conducting conjoint therapy to address PTSD during couples therapy by referencing the relevant research findings on the impact of PTSD on relationships, as well as the relationship outcomes associated with individual PTSD treatment.
  6. Employ clinical strategies that help “surface” trauma when working with a couple with PTSD.
  7. Utilize clinical interventions that help “explore” trauma at a deeper level once it has surfaced.
  8. Determine how to facilitate movement from the individual to the dyad when processing a trauma.
  9. Demonstrate how to teach couples to conduct a Stress-Reducing Conversation when PTSD is involved.
  10. Demonstrate how to teach couples to conduct an Aftermath of a Regrettable Incident Exercise when PTSD is involved.
  11. Differentiate popular therapies for treating infidelity.
  12. Assess how the 24 steps of the “Gottman-Rusbult-Glass” cascade toward betrayal lead to a blurring of boundaries between self and potential others.
  13. Assess how a betrayed partner may develop PTSD as a result of their partner’s affair.
  14. Utilize the Gottman Method Couples Therapy Assessment process with couples who have experienced an affair.
  15. Integrate appropriate additional details when conducting an Assessment feedback session for treating affairs.
  16. Facilitate the Atonement phase of Gottman Method Couples Therapy for affairs.
  17. Defend the practice of allowing the hurt partner to express anger, insecurity, resentment, fear and feelings of rejection, rather down-regulating their expression of emotion.
  18. Utilize appropriate clinical tools to strengthen an affair couple’s Attunement to each other.
  19. Practice techniques with affair couples to effectively process Regrettable Incidents.
  20. Utilize appropriate clinical interventions to deepen an affair couple’s Attachment to one another.
  21. Apply effective clinical strategies to help affair couples prevent relapse.

Copyright : 01/02/2018

Enhancing Assessment in Couples Therapy: New Approaches to Improving Outcomes

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Conduct a thorough assessment of a couple’s relationship using the Gottman Relationship Checkup
  2. Respond with effective feedback about your clients’ relationship’s strengths and how to best address their areas of concern
  3. Develop a develop a personalized treatment plan based on each partner’s responses to the assessment questionnaire

Copyright : 23/03/2018

The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Demonstrate how to enhance a couple’s capacity for gratitude, cherishing, and commitment
  2. Apply interventions that increase couples’ ability to deescalate anger, manage conflict, and repair ruptures in the relationship
  3. Employ personal calming techniques in calm in the midst of couples’ relationship conflicts and have hope when they feel hopeless

Copyright : 24/03/2018