Title: John Gottman - Wikipedia
Headings: John Gottman
John Gottman
Contents
Personal life
Education and work experience
Studies
Predictions of divorce
Critiques
Independent studies testing Gottman marriage courses
Building Strong Families Program
Supporting Healthy Marriage Project
Matthews, Wickrama and Conger
Relations and effects
Cascade Model of Relational Dissolution
Criticism
Defensiveness
Contempt
Stonewalling
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Practical solutions
Therapist education
Pre-birth workshop
Self-help books
The Gottman Method of Relationship Therapy
Awards and honors
Works
See also
References
External links

Content: The Gottman Method seeks to help couples build happy and stable marriages. Gottman's therapy model focuses on the process of conflict within the marriage, and less on the content. His research is longitudinal, meaning that he gathers data on the couples over several years. Gottman's predictions are based on perceived marital bond. In his 2000 study, Gottman conducted oral interviews with 95 newlywed couples. Couples were asked about their relationship, mutual history, and philosophy towards marriage. The interview measured the couple's perceptions of their history and marriage by focusing on the positive or negative qualities of the relationship expressed in the telling of the story. Rather than scoring the content of their answers, interviewers used the Oral History Interview coding system, developed by Buehlman and Gottman in 1996, to measure spouses' perceptions about the marriage and about each other. Therefore, the couples' perception was used to predict marital stability or divorce. The more positive their perceptions and attitudes were about their marriage and each other, the more stable the marriage.