In 2019, the Journal of Family Theory & Review Digital Scholarship Board began seeking out scholars to interview about how family theories can be drawn on to understand contemporary events, issues, or challenges impacting families. In our inaugural piece in …

Interview with Dr. Jennifer Randles – Intersectionality, Parenting, and the Diaper Dilemma Read more »

  In the March issue of JFTR, Gottman and Gottman write, “We call the theory we built the sound relationship house theory, and it is the basis of all our clinical work (Figure 1); to ease communication of this theory …

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Divorce is commonplace in the United States, with an abundant scholarship on the phenomenon. Most research has focused on predictors of divorce, associations between divorce and family member well-being, and interventions and policies for divorcing couples and children. Although this …

Theorizing the Decision-Making Process for Divorce or Reconciliation by Sarah Allen & Alan J. Hawkins Read more »

For trainers, the real appeal of this model is that Gottman method couples therapy emerged from a rich research endeavor of naturalistic observations of couples’ interactions and inductively built a theory and model that took the positive behaviors from “masters …

Commentary From the Trainer’s Perspective by Vagdevi Meunier & William Bumberry Read more »

        In this article, John Gottman asks us whether science can tell us about love… “Can science bring clarity where artists have tried so hard and failed? Is there wisdom to be learned at all? Do empirical …

Read The Natural Principles of Love — John & Julie Gottman Read more »