Chapter 3: Couples - Support Pack (2025 Edition)

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This unit on “Couples" is all about why people fall in and out of love, and how therapists can help. It covers some of the sociocultural approach content in the IB Psychology course, as well as topics in the Human Relationships option. Combined with Cults and Criminology, it completes the Human Relationship context.

This Teacher Support Pack Features:

- Unit plan
- Lesson plans
- Printable student workbook
- Teacher edition workbook with answers
- PowerPoints
- Quizzes
- Fully editable files for easy customisation
- Video summaries of all lessons and extra tips
- Practice exam questions and an example answer

Topics and Lessons

Love

- An Etic Approach
- An Emic Approach
- Collectivism and Arranged Marriages
- Individualism and Love Marriages

Divorce

- 2.1 Communication I: Demand/Withdraw
- 2.2 Communication II: The Four Horsemen
- 2.3 Cognitive Explanation I: Locus of Control
- 2.4 Cognitive Explanation II: Cognitive Dissonance

Couples Therapy

- 3.1 The Gottman Method
- 3.2 Emotionally Focused Therapy

Author: Travis Dixon
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Format: Digital
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