Gottman level 2 Method couples therapy: Assessment, intervention and comorbidities

Building on what you learned in the Level 1 Training, you will review how to assess a couple’s Friendship Profile, Conflict Profile, and Shared Meaning Profile. You will be provided with a toolkit of interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the Four Horsemen and soothe physiological flooding. You will apply six modes of changing the Attack/Defend System in a couple’s interactions, and learn how to assist couples in establishing dialogue about their gridlocked conflicts.

You will learn how to select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their Friendship System with rituals of connection, select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning, and identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman assessments and interventions.

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During the training, you will:

• sharpen your clinical skills;
• integrate research-based Gottman Method
• assessments and intervention techniques with your personal therapy style;
• learn when to use particular interventions;
• assess when couples therapy is contraindicated or might be harmful;
• be able to use your Level 2 Clinical Manual, which includes revised Gottman Core Assessments, Gottman Supplemental Assessments and more than 50 Gottman Interventions.

• assess a couple’s “Friendship Profile,” “Conflict Profile,” and “Shared Meanings Profile”;
• develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the “four horsemen”;
• find ways to help couples to soothe physiological flooding;
• apply six modes of changing the “attack/defend system” in a couple’s interactions;
• organize how to assist couples in establishing dialogue about their grid-locked conflicts;
• select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their “friendship system” with rituals of connection;
• select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning;
• identify and implement five different comorbidities common to couples using Gottman Assessments and Interventions.

At the completion of this training, you will be able to:

• Describe the three qualities every therapist needs.
• Explain the basics of observation including why it is important to recognize emotions on the human face, tension in the voice, the importance of words and the use of the SPAFF coding system.
• Describe the seven levels of the Sound Relationship House theory.
• Describe how to recognize Bids and Turning Towards.
• Explain and demonstrate how to conduct an Oral History Interview.
• Assess a couple’s “Friendship Profile,” “Conflict Profile,” and “Shared Meanings Profile”.
• Explain and demonstrate how to use the 3 profiles to choose appropriate interventions for the couple.
• Describe the use of the core assessments with couples, including the Locke-Wallace, Weiss-Cerretto, Gottman Sound Relationship House questionnaires, Gottman 19 Areas checklist, EAQ, SCL-90, Detour Scales, CAGE, b-Mast, and Supplemental Assessments.
• Formulate a treatment plan and present it to the couple including using the Sound Relationship House model.
• Develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the “four horseman.”
• Help couples to physiologically soothe when flooded.
• Select and implement interventions to help deal with conflict.
• Apply different modes of changing the “Attack/Defend System” in a couple’s interaction.
• Assist couples to establish dialogue about their grid-locked conflicts.
• Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their “Friendship System” with Rituals of Connection.
• Select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning.
• Use and describe the Stress-Reducing Conversation to minimize relapse.
• Identify and formulate a plan for different comorbidities common to couples using Gottman Method Couples Therapy Assessment and Intervention.
• Describe how to apply Gottman Method couples therapy to a couple who has experienced an affair
• Describe when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use Gottman Method couples therapy with a couple dealing with substance abuse.
• Describe the differences between situational and characterological domestic violence and when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use Gottman Method couples therapy with a couple dealing with domestic violence.

If the Level 2 training is held online, your training will consist of independent study time (which you can start as soon as you receive access to your online training, or do on the dates of the training in the unscheduled time), as well as online group meetings.