After decades of studying both successful and splitting married couples, John Gottman has distilled his findings into basic precepts for success, explaining how and why they work. Rejecting traditional assumptions about the things that make a marriage work, Gottman cites "emotional intelligence" as the bedrock of marital success. He turns his ...
Dr. Gottman's famed "love lab" can predict with more than 90 percent accuracy whether a married couple will stay together or eventually divorce. This guide puts tools into readers' hands to build back the sense of affection and romance lost through years of negative communication.
In the groundbreaking follow-up to his bestselling "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, " renowned relationship expert Gottman reveals a practical program for fixing troubled relationships, explaining "emotional bids" and demonstrating that the health of relationships depends on how they are made and received.
Gottman draws on his studies of more than 120 families to zero in on the parenting techniques that ensure a child's emotional health. He then translates his methods into an easy, five-step "emotional coaching" program designed to help parents enrich the bond between themselves and their children.
Dr. John Gottman surveyed over 2,000 couples to find out what made marriages succeed or fail, then recorded the results in this book, which should be on the shelf of any pair hoping to navigate the treacherous waters of long-term cohabitation. According to Dr. Gottman, honesty and communication are key here, and if that leads to some good old ...
Having a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are strained during the transition from duo to trio. In this guide, two renowned marriage experts teach couples the skills from their successful workshops, so partners can avoid the pitfalls of parenthood.
Practical skills and techniques that are based on how distressed and non-distressed couples differ in their problem-solving methods. Often used as a supplementary text for college counseling courses. Content Highlights 1 Listening and Validation -- checking impact with intent, giving feedback, summarizing 2 Leveling -- expressing feelings, being ...
Research on why some couples divorce and others experience sustained bliss has led to a theory that successful couples have an abundance of good feelings towards one another and are able to deal with conflicts without becoming hostile. Packed with specific interventions and exercises, this book offers a theoretically based systematic approach to ...
From a foremost relationship expert and bestselling author of "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" comes a groundbreaking, practical program for repairing troubled relationships--and enriching healthy ones--with all the important people in our lives.
Based on a decade of original research with 60 dysfunctional couples, this insightful book offers women advice on how to find help to leave a batterer. An invaluable reference for women in this dire circumstance, or for those who know or work with women who are trapped in violent relationships.
An award-winning research psychologist who has spent more than 20 years studying parent-child interactions shows parents how to "emotion coach" their kids to deal with their feelings--and help them develop into emotionally healthy adults.
While national awareness of the issue of battering has increased in recent years, certain myths regarding abusive relationships still endure, including the idea that all batterers are alike. But as Neil S. Jacobson, Ph.D., and John Gottman, Ph.D., explain, this is not the case. Drawing on the authors' own research, "When Men Batter Women" offers a ...
Dr. John Gottman surveyed over 2,000 couples to find out what made marriages succeed or fail, then recorded the results in this book, which should be on the shelf of any pair hoping to navigate the treacherous waters of long-term cohabitation. According to Dr. Gottman, honesty and communication are key here, and if that leads to some good old ...
The Relationship Between Marital Processes and Marital Outcomes: I sincerely want to thank the hundreds of couple who participated in this research. They trusted us with the most intimate details of their lives, and theirs is really the major contributions toward this effort.
John Gottman, preeminent relationship expert, revolutionizes the concept of marriage counseling. Through rigorous research of hundreds of couples, he refreshingly admits that the secret to marriage is not relentless communication, but rather on learning how to cope with differences and strengthening the marriage, which can be learned through his ...
In the observational study of social systems, the major conceptual innovation of the last century was General Systems Theory. Yet the General Systems Theory conceptions of interacting social systems were doomed to remain at the prescientific level of metaphor until a set of statistical techniques were developed and applied. These techniques have ...
Filled with practical and common-sense advice on how to become an "Emotion Coaching" parent, "The Heart of Parenting" is a how-to guide for those interested in helping their children grow into "emotionally intelligent" people.
Kids who can accept and share their emotions do better in many ways, Gottman's research shows: - They form stronger friendships; - They achieve more in school; - They bounce back from emotional crises more quickly; and - They are physically healthier.
Esther Williams and John Gottman describe a complete set of programs they have written in Fortran IV to enable even beginners to use all the techniques presented in John Gottman's Time-Series Analysis: A Comprehensive Introduction for Social Scientists. There are three packages, available on IBM card source desks from the authors, for (1) time and ...
Dr. Gottman's famed "love lab" can predict with more than 90 percent accuracy whether a married couple will stay together or eventually divorce. This audiobook puts tools into readers' hands to build back the sense of affection and romance lost through years of negative communication. Abridged. 4 CDs.
Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical understanding of the processes related to marital stability and dissolution, it is difficult to design and evaluate new marriage interventions. The Mathematics of Marriage provides the foundation for a scientific theory of marital relations. The book does not rely on metaphors, but ...
Continuity and change are major concerns of the social and behavioural sciences. This text deals with designs that analyze change in multiple subjects, and with change in single subjects and an interacting system.
This text describes research on the emotional communication between parents and children, and its effect on the children's emotional development. Inspired by the work of Dr. Haim Ginott, it presents the result of initial exploratory work with meta-emotion - feelings about feelings. The initial study of meta-emotion generated some theory and made ...
John Gottman has written a practical guide for parents on how to raise a child who can understand and control his or her emotions. THE HEART OF PARENTING explains a child's different emotional needs at different ages and shows parents how to help their children calm themselves down, how to focus their attention, how to give their children better ...
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