How Long to Read The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy

How Long Does it Take to Read The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy?

It takes the average reader 8 hours to read The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy by John M. Gottman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Marriage Clinic presents a complete marital therapy program based on John Gottman's much heralded research on marital success and failure. Here one will find not only a wide range of succinct and useful assessment procedures, but also a highly specific, research-based, and modularized treatment program. In addition, there are dozens of questionnaires and interview protocols to be used in both assessment and intervention. In prospective, long-term research with over 700 couples, Gottman has discovered certain factors that distinguish happy, stable couples from both unstable, ultimately divorcing couples and stable but unhappy couples. These findings, which are explained here in understandable, nontechnical language, form the basis of his Sound Marital House theory of marriage, which guides the new therapy. This therapy has two goals: changing the marital friendship and teaching couples to regulate conflict. Despite the high aims of much marital therapy, Gottman found that most marital conflicts involve fundamentally unresolvable relationship issues called "perpetual problems." He shows how therapists can help spouses move from gridlock to dialogue on these issues. Solvable problems can be resolved more easily when the couple has a strong marital friendship. He gives therapists the tools to teach spouses five fundamental skills to develop and strengthen their friendship: softened start-up, accepting influence, repair and de-escalation, compromise, and physiological soothing. Gottman compares his clinic to a restaurant, where clients are offered a menu of treatment formats, from psychoeducation for specific issues to extended therapy to repair a badly damaged marital friendship. Therapists, too, can choose among the questionnaires and strategies for those that fit the needs of particular couples. Whatever their choice, they will find that their practice is greatly enriched by the scientifically-based offerings of The Marriage Clinic.

How long is The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy?

The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy by John M. Gottman is 480 pages long, and a total of 120,000 words.

This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 147% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 55 minutes to read The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy aloud.

What Reading Level is The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy?

The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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