This training and the accompanying clinical manual have provided some of the most powerful therapeutic insights and concepts I've received as a therapist working with couples. – Jim Marshall (Master Care Institute)
Level I-
MARITAL THERAPY: A RESEARCH-BASED APPROACH
DVD or VHS Home Study- 14 CEs
Looking to Expand or Enhance Your Strategies and Interventions in Your Work with Couples?
This 8-tape DVD/video package presents Dr. Gottman in a 14-hour state-of-the-art workshop for counseling professionals. This workshop includes Dr. Gottman's 35 years of pioneering research on what makes relationships succeed or fail. In his review of the research, myths fall and truths emerge. Learn how to help your couples with scientifically-based assessment methods, interventions, and relapse prevention strategies. The tools you’ll be given have been crafted from what happy couples actually do, not from preconceived stereotypes. With this workshop you’ll be given blueprints for strengthening your couples’ friendship and romance, helping them with conflict management, and creating their shared sense of purpose and meaning. The methods you’ll learn will empower your work as a couples therapist.
"I received the materials today. I am very excited to begin the process. Nice materials, very professional. I was impressed; I have done many courses but this time I feel that it is something special." (C.R.-Romania)
LOOK INSIDE - Click here to see the Table of Contents
You will learn what Dr. Gottman's research tells us about couples, including…
- How couples really sustain their relationships—
in contrast to common myths and misconceptions.
- How couples successfully deal with conflicts —without destroying their connections.
- How couples build lasting friendships —
that lead to romance, passion and good sex.
- How couples deepen their intimacy —
by sharing their values, roles and goals.
You will gain realistic, practical research-based tools to help your couples, including…
- A new assessment package to pinpoint your couples' strengths and challenges.
- A collection of intervention tools to help your couples deepen their friendships, manage their conflicts, define their shared meaning systems, and impassion their sex lives.
- Methods to help couples feel a renewed sense of caring and partnership through emotional connection.
You will be ready to immediately apply what you've learned, including…
- Means to identify key points in couples' interactions when your interventions will be most effective.
- Strategies to help partners shift from attack to connection.
- Methods to help your couples solve their own problems.
- Skills to empower your couples to dialogue about their worst gridlocked issues.
- Tools to support your couples' friendship and intimacy.
Participants working in the following fields will benefit from our training:
- Mental health providers
- Allied professionals and clergy
- Students and interns
- Family clinic staff
- Professors/teachers of couples therapy
- Researchers in the social sciences
- Employee assistance professionals
Workshop Manual
Included is our Clinician's Video Workshop Manual for Marital Therapy. This 570-page manual provides direct hands-on training techniques for therapists. The manual includes all materials covered in the workshop, plus 15 pages of references and a time indexing guide, enabling viewers to locate specific topics.
$325 for the Complete Workshop Package
For Group Viewing in Clinical or Educational Settings: Additional Clinician Manuals: $175 each
Individual workshop manuals are now available for clinicians wishing to view the workshop in a group setting. Additional manuals allow each clinician to have his/her own materials while viewing the series as a group. To be eligible for CE credit, each viewer must be a registered owner of his/her own Clinician's Workshop Manual. Email allie@gottman.com to register all the viewers for CEU credit.
To order the Clinicians' Workshop Package, or additional manuals, please click on The Store.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: 14 CE’s
- Psychologists - The Gottman Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Gottman Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- Counselors - The Gottman Institute is an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events (or programs) that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the course.
- Marriage & Family Therapists and Social Workers - Check with your individual state regulatory agency to determine whether or not you are eligible for continuing education credit by viewing this video. Some states accept the APA or NBCC approval; others do not. California: Course meets the qualifications for 14 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider #3334.
Would Your Organization Like to Host a LIVE Level I Training Event?
MTRBA Instructors are now available! We are pleased to announce that instructors are now available to teach the 2-day MTRBA workshop LIVE! All instructors are Certified Gottman Therapists. Please contact the therapist directly for more information. Please click here to download a PDF list of the MTRBA Instructors and their contact information.
