Full Course Description
Dr. Sue Johnson's Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis
Program Information
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals.
Objectives
OBJECTIVES
- Explore the history and development of attachment theory as it relates to clinical practice
- Question traditional therapeutic approaches and cultural norms for couples
- Describe the laws of attachment and how they apply to couple therapy
- Develop and practice effective responses to typical couple presentations
- Assess for attachment injury and trauma history in presenting couples
- Characterize the common styles of couple engagement
- Structure a supportive and secure therapy framework
- Reframe critical or angry expressions as expressions of attachment fear
- Model safe attachment as surrogate attachment figure
- Categorize interventions as appropriate for progressive stages of therapy
- Formulate potential interventions for couples in case demonstrations
- Manage common blocks or regressions in therapy
- Describe how to help clients divide overwhelming emotions into manageable experiences
Outline
OUTLINE
- Session 1: On Target Interventions
- The state of couple therapy and the new science of attachment
- Understanding the map to basic relationship emotions and needs
- Exploring the theory and laws of affect
- The consequences of human biology and neuropsychological development
- The evolutionary perspective on the importance of attachment and family relationships
- The structure of attachment relationships: emotional accessibility, responsiveness and engagement
- The five basic moves or relationship drama
- Reach
- Protest
- Turn away
- Meltdown
- Reconnect
- Session 2: The EFT Model
- Research on outcomes and change
- The tasks of EFT
- Building an alliance
- Reprocessing and distilling emotion
- Choreographing new interactions
- The three stages of EFT
- De-escalation
- Restructuring Attachment
- Consolidation
- The five basic moves of the EFT therapist
- Experiential and Systemic interventions
- Session 3: A Walk Through Stage 1 of EFT
- Stage 1: De-escalation
- Establishing trust, safety and hope
- Defusing unrealistic expectations
- Mastering the assessment process
- Examining personal attachment history and childhood patterns
- Exploring the couple attachment history
- Identifying styles and addressing varied attack and withdraw combinations
- Reviewing methods of assessing underlying emotions, relationship commitment, and nonverbal cues
- Case Study: Addressing alternative relationship interpretations
- Session 4: A Walk Through Stage 2 of EFT
- Stage 2: Restructuring the relationship bond
- Accessing implicit needs, fears and models of self
- Translating messages the partner can hear and understand
- Identifying and expressing attachment needs effectively
- Using repetition, imagery, and connection to facilitate expression
- Accomplishing bonding events in the therapeutic setting
- Case Study: Beginning openness, expression, resilient coping and bonding with trauma survivors
- Session 5: Turning to Sexuality
- The attachment frame on sex and affairs
- Understanding the social expectations for sexuality and long-term relationships
- Examining the central importance of feeling desired and valuable
- Exploring the types of sexual engagement
- Normalizing challenges and physical difficulties
- Leading successful discussion of difficult topics
- Attachment injuries (i.e. affairs)
- Relationship traumas that destroy trust
- Creating and communicating a healing narrative
- When healing attempts worsen the rift
- Case Study: Attachment injury
- Session 6: Working with Difficult Couples
- Dysregulated, escalated, and shut down, dismissing clients
- Working with trauma couples
- The persistence of symptoms and cumulative impact
- Establishing a secure base for post trauma individuals
- The relationship between PTSD, trust and sexuality
- Intimate partner abuse
- Asking about fear and addressing safety
- Violence and threat assessment
- Escalating couples
- Trusting the model as a safe-haven
- Case Study: The escalated couple and the partner with PTSD
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04/05/2016
Module 2| The EFT Model
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04/05/2016
Module 3 | Essentials of Stage 1 EFT
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04/05/2016
Module 4 | Essentials of Stage 2 EFT
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04/05/2016
Module 5 | Turning to Sexuality and Affairs
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04/05/2016
Module 6 | Advanced Approaches for Difficult Couples
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04/05/2016
Risking, Reaching and Responding: Transforming Relationships in Stage 2 of EFT
DESCRIPTION:
In this video you will see two case presentations and live sessions from Stage 2 of EFT including key moments of key change events - withdrawer reengagement and blamer/pursuer softening. In these moments, partners become Accessible, Responsive and Engaged with each other. These are the key qualities that define the security of an attachment bond. Sue and Gail outline each case and discuss their session outlining how each session illustrates EFT interventions and the process of shaping the corrective emotional experience that is the essence of Stage 2 in EFT. Included is a unique step by step process analysis of interventions offering an x-ray view of how the therapists create change.
Program Information
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals.
Outline
Introducing the process of change in stage 2 EFT
Identifying the primary goals of stage 2
The elements of successful resolution of Stage 1
The de-escalation skills needed for more direct expression of needs
Softening the blaming of partners
New models of self, partner, relational competence and affect regulation
Predictors of successful outcomes
Clinical Demonstration 1: Working to help a withdrawn partner re-engage
Clinical Demonstration 2: Helping a blaming partner to distill fears and reach for partner
Objectives
1. Articulate the seven steps of the EFT process and how it applies to clinical practice
2. Evaluate couple readiness to move through the stages and steps of the EFT process
3. Substitute effective attachment requests for confused, angry, or counterproductive expressions
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01/01/2017
Soothing the Threatened Brain: Using Attachment Science to Create Bonding, Satisfying Relationships with Sue Johnson, Ed.D.
“I think there's a revolution happening with attachment science, and I actually think it can revolutionize not just how we parent our kids; how we connect with our partners; how we create our families; but how we do psychotherapy.” ~ Susan Johnson, ED.D.
Over the years, attachment science has been scrutinized and often misrepresented as “just a theory for children.” Divulging in such a theory was considered a waste of time and irrelevant; however, after many studies and in-depth research, today, attachment science is one of the best tools in psychotherapy, for it allows you to hone in on your client’s issues and understand what the “next step” is.
“Attachment is a unifying principle that reaches from the biological depths of our being to its furthest spiritual reaches.” ~ John Bowlby
The science shows that the very core of attachment is that humans are social beings and to regulate your body, you need a felt-sense of connection with other people. The ultimate cue for helplessness and hopelessness for human beings is the disconnection from others. Physiologically, emotionally, and mentally, human beings are not designed for isolation.
But how can you apply this in your practice TODAY?
With over 30 years of clinical practice, best-selling author and internationally recognized leader in the field of couple interventions, Dr. Sue Johnson will share with you how she has found success in using attachment science to create bonding relationships that not only make couples more satisfied in their relationships, but most importantly, create bonding relationships that change the security of that bond.
In this video, Dr. Sue Johnson’s energetic and vibrant personality shines as she outlines her most recent large Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) study -
- Soothing the Threatened Brain -Through EFT and the basis of attachment science, this study demonstrated that 20 sessions of EFT in couples can change the security of the couple’s bond. Most importantly, the brain’s perception of threat significantly diminishes when there is a felt-sense of connection. This revolutionary study shows that we can now effectively help couples, not just understand their relationship better, but create the secure loving bonds that “Soothe the Threatened Brains.”
But that’s not all you’ll learn! Through real-life examples and current research:
- Find out how and why couples relationships are affected by life-changing experiences.
- Determine the importance of being present with your client.
- Discover how technology can reduce relationships from an essential to incidental.
- And much more!
This video will help you conceive attachment science that no skills training manual can measure up to. Dive deep and transform your practice with Dr. Sue Johnson and Linda Curran and discover the very essence of bonding relationships.
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify the framework of attachment that can lead to constructive dependency in your clients.
- Determine the implications of insecure attachment in couples and family therapy.
- Utilize clinical strategies to improve therapeutic presence with clients.
Outline
- About Dr. Sue Johnson
- Current EFT Research
- Attachment
- Solitary Confinement
- Constructive Dependency
- ECR: Experiences in Close Relationships
- Technology and Relationships
- The Fundamentals of EFT Training
- Being present with the client
- Military Couples
- “Emotional Music”
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals.
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01/01/2018