Tuesday 28th – Friday
31st August 2012, 9.30 – 17.00
University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow
(Sponsored by HASS
Research & Knowledge Exchange,
University of
Strathclyde)
Emotion-Focused
Therapy (EFT) – also known as Process-Experiential Therapy – is a humanistic,
evidence-based form of psychotherapy/counselling that integrates person-centred
and gestalt therapies, with particular relevance to working with depression,
trauma, and anxiety difficulties. It has gained international recognition
through the work of Les Greenberg, Robert Elliott, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda
Goldman, Sandra Paivio, Antonio Pascual-Leone and others. The Counselling Unit at the University
of Strathclyde is again pleased to offer Level One professional training in this
approach to qualified counsellors and psychotherapists (Diploma level or
above).
Now in its seventh
year at the University of Strathclyde, this successful, four-day Level One EFT
training programme will provide participants with a solid grounding in the
theory and skills required to work more directly with emotion in psychotherapy.
Participants will receive an in-depth skills training through a combination of
brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modelling, case discussions, and
extensive supervised role-playing practice. The workshop will begin with an
overview of EFT Emotion Theory, including basic principles and the role of
emotion and emotional awareness in function and dysfunction; this will be
illustrated by Focusing-oriented exercises. Differential intervention based on
specific process markers will be demonstrated. Videotaped examples of evidence
based methods for evoking and exploring emotion schemes, and for dealing with
overwhelming emotions, puzzling emotional reactions, painful self-criticism,
and emotional injuries from past relationships will be presented.
Participants will be
trained in the skills of moment-by-moment attunement to affect, and the use of
methods of dialoguing with parts or configurations of self and imagined
significant others in an empty chair. This training will provide therapists
from person-centred, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural and related
backgrounds with an opportunity to develop their therapeutic skills and
interests.
Educational
Objectives
Participants on the
training programme will learn:
1. To implement the basic principles of
EFT
2. To identify different types of
emotional response;
3. When to help clients contain and when
to access emotion;
4. To help clients reprocess difficult
emotions;
5. To facilitate emotional processing to
resolve self-critical splits and unfinished business.
Programme Outline
Tuesday:
Morning: Foundations,
Emotion, Empathy, & Alliance Formation
• Distinctive
features of the EFT: neo-humanism & therapeutic principles
•
Process-experiential emotion theory: emotion schemes
• Emotion response
types & emotional change principles
Afternoon: Therapeutic
Tasks, Accessing and Managing Emotion:
• Therapeutic tasks and process
formulation
• Emotion regulation
• Focusing and
Clearing a Space
• Skills practice
Wednesday:
Morning: Reprocessing
Problematic Experiences
• Empathic
exploration, evocative empathy, empathic conjecture
• Evocative
unfolding, Narrative Retelling, and Meaning Creation
• Skills practice
Afternoon: Accessing
Primary Adaptive Emotions & Restructuring Emotion Schemes; Empirical
support
• Empty chair
dialogue and unfinished business
• Supporting the
emergence of primary needs
• Helping clients use
adaptive emotions to challenge core problematic emotion schemes
• Letting go of unmet
needs
• Skills practice
• Summary of Research
evidence
Thursday:
Morning: Active
Expression Processes - I
• Dialectical
constructivist models of self
• Two chair dialogue
and splits
• Accessing adaptive
and problematic emotional responses
• Skills practice
Afternoon: Active
Expression Processes – 2
• Accessing core
problematic emotion schemes
• Varieties of splits
• Adapting two-chair
work to different kinds of clients
• Skills practice
Friday
Morning: Identifying
Tasks; Open marker work
• Review of tasks
• Strategies for
identifying and selecting tasks
• Skills practice
Afternoon: Personalized
Applications
• Practical
parameters
• Depression,
Post-traumatic stress difficulties
• Social anxiety,
Borderline processes
• Question &
answer period
About the
Facilitators
Robert Elliott, PhD
Robert is professor
in the Counselling Unit at the University of Strathclyde, where he teachers on
the postgraduate diploma and MSc courses in Person-Centred Counselling. He taught at the University of Toledo 1978-2006,
where he was Professor of Psychology, Director of Clinical Training and
Director of the Center for the Study of Experiential Psychotherapy. He has also
been a guest professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, University
of Sheffield, UK, and La Trobe University, Australia. He is co-author of
Facilitating Emotional Change (1993), Learning Emotion-focused Therapy (2004),
and Research Methods for Clinical Psychology (2003), as well as more than 100
published scientific articles or book chapters. In 2008 he received both the Carl Rogers Award, Division of
Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and the
Distinguished Research Career Award, Society for Psychotherapy Research. He is editor emeritus of the journal,
Person-Centered Counseling and Psychotherapies and directs the Scottish
Consortium for Psychotherapy and Counselling Research and the Strathclyde
Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling Research.
Lorna Carrick, MSc
Lorna is a lecturer
in the Counselling Unit at the University of Strathclyde. She is the course
director for the Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Skills and teaches on
the Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling courses. Lorna’s background is in
mental health and project development and as a founder member of the first
Health Board-funded person-centred counselling service in Scotland, Lorna has
over sixteen years experience in counselling, supervision and service
development within the field of counselling and psychotherapy. Lorna is
currently the director of the Glasgow Counselling in Schools Project and Chair
of the Counselling Unit’s management group. Lorna’s research has focused on
working with clients in crisis within the Person-Centred-Experiential approach
and the use of counselling and Pre-therapy skills in the field of autism
services. She has been practicing EFT within a broadly Person-Centred
relational approach since 2006, and has also participated as an EFT therapist
in the Social Anxiety research protocol of the Counselling Unit’s research
clinic. She is committed to helping
counsellors/therapists bridge the perceived gap between EFT and nondirective
Person-Centred ways of working with clients.
Anja Rutten, MSc
Anja is an
experienced and practising counsellor and supervisor and works as a Senior
Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling at Staffordshire University. She is
director of the final year of the MSc Psychotherapeutic Counselling. She also
teaches undergraduate psychology modules on psychological interventions,
counselling and autism. Before she joined Staffordshire University, Anja worked
for the National Autistic Society, where she was responsible for leading and
developing two UK-wide national services schemes, offering nation-wide
befriending and social opportunities to people on the autism spectrum. She is currently
combining her research interests in counselling and autism by studying for a
part-time PhD at Strathclyde University under the supervision of Professor
Robert Elliott, investigating therapy experiences of clients with Asperger
syndrome and working towards the evaluation of person-centred/emotion-focused
therapy for this group of clients.
Application
Information
If you would like to
reserve a place on this training course, please complete and return the
application form overleaf. Places are strictly limited so book early to avoid
disappointment.
The fee for this
four-day event is has been set at £495. Please note that to keep costs to a
minimum, catering is not included in this fee.
We are pleased to
offer an Early Bird Discount of £50.00 to those who book before 1st July
2012. To take advantage of this
offer, applications must be received by this date with no exceptions.
For further
information on this event, please contact Jan Bissett, HASS Research &
Knowledge Exchange (jan.bissett@strath.ac.uk, 0141 548 3418).
Please also contact Jan
Bissett for other events and courses on our advanced professional training and
psychological therapies knowledge exchange programmes.
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