Couple Counselling: The Gottman Approach

About This Course

At the end of this course, participants should be able to differentiate the focus between individual and couple counselling, understand the research-based Gottman Approach for engagement, assessment and intervention in couple counselling, understand key concepts in the Sound Relationship House Theory, appraise couple’s narrative of their relationship and conflictual pattern of interaction, understand the 16-item assessment tool for Gottman Relationship Checkup, understand the Love Map as a foundational element for stable marital relationship, engage couples for assessment and intervention using the Gottman Approach, appraise relational dynamics between couples, apply summary checklist to identify functional and dysfunctional couple relationship, identify conflictual pattern of interaction between couple, apply key concepts of the Sound Relationship House Theory, conduct oral history interview and assess couple’s narrative of their relationship, apply Gottman-Approach core intervention 1: Gottman-Rapoport Intervention, apply Gottman-Approach core intervention 2: Elimination of 4-Horsemen Intervention, apply Gottman-Approach core intervention 3: Love Map Tool