“You can take the child out of the family, but you can never take the family out of the child.” ~ Gerry Fewster, Psychotherapist
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EFFT LEVEL 1
Presented by Gail Palmer & Jim Furrow This is the first level, foundational teachings of the EFFT model. The presenter will demonstrate how the EFT model of working with couples is extended and modified to fit the family context. Core EFFT competencies will be clearly delineated with a general focus on key elements in the EFT process and its application to family relationships. Attention will be given to how EFT practice with families is different and what additional skills are needed. For example, how to process parental blocks to emotional accessibility and responsiveness while also keeping the child safe will be a dynamic addressed. Participants will learn a powerful and transformative approach that is crucial for helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached. An overview on practices for working through negative patterns, accessing and deepening emotions to promote corrective emotional experiences in family relationships will also be described. EFFT-1 Program Objectives: 1. Analyze family distress using theories of emotion and attachment 2.Utilize key practices of EFFT from EFT work with couples 3.Identify the stages and marker of change in the EFFT approach 4. Identify therapist practices that promote a working alliance with parents and children 5. Compile strategies for strengthening parental ownership for the EFFT process 6. Apply key interventions common to processing attachment related affect 7. Describe a 5-step sequence for accessing and working with emotion in family relationships 8. Analyze parent-child interactions using EFT practices to work through specific relational blocks 9. Demonstrate enactments used to restructure new patterns of interaction promoting new levels of safety and security in the family 10. Identify differences in applying EFFT to treatment of step-family relationships 11. Explain the relationship of secure attachment to family patterns of resilience |
EFFT LEVEL 2
Presented by Gail Palmer This advanced training builds on level 1 by providing further training on the six- core competencies of EFFT practice. Focus is on key change events in EFFT to promote parental openness and child vulnerability. Direction for transforming parental intention into more effective engagement of caregiving and attachment responses within the family system is provided. Specific strategies are reviewed for working through relational blocks and re-engaging attachment needs across multiple types of family relationships. There will be intensive focus on key elements in the EFT process applied to family relationships. Participants will deepen their EFT skills in intervening with family relationships broadening their understanding of emotion and attachment and strengthening their shared bonds. Competence in EFFT assessment and treatment practices that guide families through resolving relationship blocks and promote more secure familial bonds is increased. Specific practices for working through negative patterns, accessing and deepening emotions to promote corrective emotional experiences in family relationships will demonstrated and practiced. EFFT-2 Program Objectives: 1. Explain family distress from an attachment lens 2. Analyze for safety and determining appropriate and relevant family members for treatment 3. Use parental investment and goal alliance in family treatment 4. Utilize EFT tango in family sessions 5. Analyze parental blocks to caregiving to create parental accessibility and responsiveness 6. Compile child vulnerability related to attachment needs and process blocks in a safe and developmentally appropriate way 7. Demonstrate meaningful enactments within a family context 8. Compile family sessions to meet the unique needs of stepfamily life 9. Identify the EFFT therapeutic moves in session and key stages and steps in the EFFT process of change 10. Identify common blocks that disrupt effective attachment and caregiving responses in the family 11. Apply and practice EFFT interventions that restructure the interaction between family members in the direction of emotional engagement, accessibility, and responsiveness. |
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EFFT-1 SCHEDULE (DAY 1)
Morning Session: (9:30 – 12:45) Introduction: Attachment, Emotion, and the Family System Focus: Conceptualizing the family as an emotional system. Method: Didactic Instruction, Experiential Exercises, Discussion Attachment and Family Therapy: Emerging Models of Family Treatment Focus: Review the evidence supporting attachment based approaches to family therapy. Method: Didactic Instruction, Clinical Examples, Discussion 12:45 - 1:45 Lunch Afternoon Session: (1:45 – 5:00) Overview of Emotionally Focused Therapy and Families Focus: Introduction of Emotionally Focused Therapy and Family Treatment including markers of change and common interventions. Method: Didactic Instruction, Clinical Examples EFFT: Assessment and Alliance Building Focus: Stage 1 Practices in assessing families and building alliances. Method: Didactic Instruction, Group discussion, Role Play, Video Example Q&A Wrap-up EFFT-1 SCHEDULE (DAY 2) Morning Session: (9:30 – 12:45) EFFT: Processing Patterns of Distress from the Inside Out Focus: Tracking and reframing family distress as an escalating pattern. Exploring primary emotional experiences and family patterns. Method: Didactic Instruction, Role Play Exercises, Clinical Examples EFFT: Changing Family Patterns Focus: EFFT Demonstration Method: Live session or Video Taped Example and discussion 12:45-1:45 Lunch Afternoon Session: (1:45– 5:00) EFFT: Enactments and the Power of Emotional Engagement Focus: Review of steps to effective enactments in EFFT Method: Didactic Instruction, Role Play Exercises, Clinical Examples EFFT: Stage 3: Consolidation and Promoting Resilience Focus: Review of final steps in EFFT and promoting family resilience through attachment Method: Didactic Instruction, Group Discussion, Role Play Exercises Q&A Wrap-up |
EFFT-2 SCHEDULE (DAY 1)
Morning Session: (9:30 – 12:45) The EFT Tango in family work Focus: How does the EFT tango unfold in family work Method: Didactic Instruction, Experiential Exercises, Discussion Attachment and family therapy Focus: Focus: Conceptualizing the family as an attachment based emotional system. Method: Didactic Instruction, Clinical Examples, Discussion 12:45-1:45 Lunch Afternoon Session: (1:45-5:00) Attachment challenges in family work Focus: Developmental issues, competing attachments, generational influences Treatment including markers of change and common interventions. Method: Didactic Instruction, Clinical Examples Assessment and Alliance Building Focus: Stage 1 Practices in assessing families and building alliances. Method: Didactic Instruction, Group discussion, Role Play, Video Example Q&A Wrap-up EFFT-2 SCHEDULE (DAY 2) Morning Session: (9:30 – 12:45) Processing Patterns of Distress from the Inside Out Focus: Processing Parental blocks Method: Didactic Instruction, Role Play Exercises, Clinical Examples EFFT: Changing Family Patterns Focus: EFFT Demonstration Method: Live session or Video Taped Example and discussion 12:45-1:45 Lunch Afternoon Session: (1:45 – 5:00) Processing child blocks Focus: Working through child mistrust to child vulnerability Method: Didactic Instruction, Role Play Exercises, Clinical Examples Ability to structure meaningful enactments Focus: Review of steps to effective enactments in EFFT Method: Didactic Instruction, Group Discussion, Role Play Exercises Q&A Wrap-up |