According to Gottman and Goittman (2008) as a therapist/clinician one must follow a couples change and stability for long periods of time. What measures do you go to to make sure your client’s really benefitted from the therapy/interventions/plan you implemented in therapy? Do you follow up after you have discharged your couples/clients?
The four horsemen's that arise in couples are identified in this chapter, criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling. There are several things therapist must do to help couples through when they are dealing with the different horsemen’s. The therapist needs to stop any insults, putdowns or name calling by defining them as contempt and tell the couple that contempts are our best predictors of relationship
The four horsemen's that arise in couples are identified in this chapter, criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling. There are several things therapist must do to help couples through when they are dealing with the different horsemen’s. The therapist needs to stop any insults, putdowns or name calling by defining them as contempt and tell the couple that contempts are our best predictors of relationship