Fostering Healthy Relationships: The Dance of Intimacy
Fostering Healthy Relationships: The Dance of Intimacy
In this course, relationship therapist Lyn Baird cites numerous studies and authors on relationship to show couples counsellors how to help their clients move past the power struggle stage of relationship toward stability and ever greater intimacy.
About this course
In this course, relationship therapist Lyn Baird, M.Couns., outlines the stages of relationship development and delves deeply into how to help couples move past the power struggle stage toward stability and greater intimacy. Using the analogy of a car and citing several studies, Lyn discusses notions of relationship repair and maintenance with reference to Gary Chapman’s love languages, the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory of personality preference, and John Gottman’s principles of marriage stability.