Level 1 - Bridging the Couple Chasm, Gottman Couples Therapy: A New Research-Based Approach
CPSY x274
| Day | Friday, November 4th, and Saturday, November 5th, 2011 |
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| Time | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM |
| Room | Loyola Hall, Room 136 |
| Credit | 12 CE hours, 1.2 CEUs |
| Costs | Course registration: $290, Gottman manual: $90 |
Description
Based on John Gottman’s “love lab,” 35 years of research on marital couples’ successes and failures, this workshop explores assessment and treatment of couples in therapy. Characteristic myths and assumptions long held by clinicians about what is "dysfunctional" when a marriage is struggling, and what is "functional" when a marriage is going well, are challenged and novel methods for treatment are explored. This model provides clinicians a blueprint for developing effective strategies to address the three central components of the Sound Relationship House model: 1) The Friendship System, 2) The Conflict System and 3) The Meaning System.
In this pragmatic workshop, Dr. Navarra, a Certified Gottman Therapist and Couples Workshop Leader will provide background information to this system, case examples and demonstration of methods for diagnoses and treatment of couples in practice.
Instructor
Robert Navarra,Psy.D., M.F.T.
Dr. Navarra is a Certified Gottman Therapist and Consultant, offering Gottman Couples Workshops, Level 1 and Level 2 Gottman Method Training Workshops. He recently co-authored a chapter with John Gottman titled Gottman Method Therapy: From Theory to Practice, in Case Studies in Couple Therapy: Theory-Based Approaches (Carson & Casado-Kehoe, Eds., 2011).
Dr. Navarra is a Research Scientist at the Relationship Research Institute (Founder and Executive Director, John Gottman) where he and Dr. Gottman are currently collaborating on research, designing a randomized clinical trial integrating Dr. Navarra’s relational model of addiction treatment within the Gottman Method Therapy theory and framework. Additionally, he is Research Associate at Mental Research Institute and Co-founder of the Center for Couples in Recovery at MRI where he developed the Couples Recovery Development Approach, a relational approach to addiction treatment. He has presented his original research at conferences for AAMFT, CAMFT, and the Gottman Institute
Publications include: Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Co-Morbidity, published in Gottman Level ll Training Manual (2009); and Family Response to Adults and Alcohol, in Family Response to Alcohol Problems, (Fischer, Muslow, and Korinek, Eds., 2007).
Dr. Navarra maintains a private practice in
Website: www.robertnavarra.net
Email: drbobnavarra@gmail.com.
