EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED FAMILY THERAPY (EFFT)
MEET THE PRESENTER
Gail Palmer, MSW, RMFT
Gail Palmer is one of the Founding Members of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and Co-Director of the International Center of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada. Over the past 30 years, Gail has worked closely with Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and is an experienced supervisor and a dynamic trainer in EFT. For the past decade, Gail has been one of the lead EFT trainers who have developed and expanded on Dr. Sue Johnson’s approach as described in her books, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (revised, 2019), Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy with Individuals, Couples and Families (2019). Gail is on of the co-authors of the newly released, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience (2019).
Gail Palmer, MSW, RMFT
Gail Palmer is one of the Founding Members of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and Co-Director of the International Center of Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada. Over the past 30 years, Gail has worked closely with Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and is an experienced supervisor and a dynamic trainer in EFT. For the past decade, Gail has been one of the lead EFT trainers who have developed and expanded on Dr. Sue Johnson’s approach as described in her books, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (revised, 2019), Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy with Individuals, Couples and Families (2019). Gail is on of the co-authors of the newly released, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience (2019).
LIVE ONLINE VIA ZOOM
DATE/TIME
LEVEL 1 FRIDAY, FEB 26 & SATURDAY, FEB 27 2021
LEVEL 2 FRIDAY, MAY 7 & SATURDAY, MAY 8 2021
9:30AM - 5:00PM Eastern Time each day
DESCRIPTION
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families. EFFT therapists focus on the emotional experience within a family and the problem patterns that block family members from accessing the resources they would otherwise share.
A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behavior by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer a secure base for children to develop and families to thrive. EFFT provides a practical approach to engaging families at an emotional level. Accessing, processing, and connecting family members through the power of emotional experience promotes healing and fosters a family’s resilience to the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.
The presenter will demonstrate how the EFT model of working with couples is extended and modified to fit the family context. 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 foundational in helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached.
This workshop combines didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case examples to demonstrate the practice of EFFT. Participants are encouraged to bring examples from their casework to explore the application of EFFT to their own work. Videotaped and/or live demonstration sessions are included.
Program Objectives:
SCHEDULE
Day 1
Morning Session: (9:30 – 12:45)
9:30 Introduction: Attachment, Emotion, and the Family System
Focus: Conceptualizing the family as an emotional system.
Method: Didactic Instruction, Experiential Exercises, Discussion
11:00 Break
11:15 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 Lunch
Afternoon Session: (1:45 – 5:00)
1:45 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
3:15 Break
3:30 EFFT: Assessment and Alliance Building
Focus: Stage 1 Practices in assessing families and building alliances.
Method: Didactic Instruction, Group discussion, Role Play, Video Example
4:45 Q&A Wrap-up
5:00 End
Day 2
Morning Session: (9:30 – 12:45)
9:30 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
11:00 Break
11:15 EFFT: Changing Family Patterns
Focus: EFFT Demonstration
Method: Live session or Video Taped Example and discussion
12:45 Lunch
Afternoon Session: (1:45– 5:00)
1:45 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
3:15 Break
3:30 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
4:45 Q&A Wrap-up
5:00 End
TARGET AUDIENCE
Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Psychologists
LEVEL
Beginning, Intermediate (Level 1)/Advanced (Level 2)
PRE-REQUISITE
No pre-requisite for level 1 but it is suggested to read Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy with Individuals, Couples and Families (2019) and/or Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience (2019). You must have taken level 1 before taking level 2.
DATE/TIME
LEVEL 1 FRIDAY, FEB 26 & SATURDAY, FEB 27 2021
LEVEL 2 FRIDAY, MAY 7 & SATURDAY, MAY 8 2021
9:30AM - 5:00PM Eastern Time each day
DESCRIPTION
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment-based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families. EFFT therapists focus on the emotional experience within a family and the problem patterns that block family members from accessing the resources they would otherwise share.
A primary goal of EFFT is to reduce problematic behavior by creating new patterns of emotional accessibility and responsiveness that offer a secure base for children to develop and families to thrive. EFFT provides a practical approach to engaging families at an emotional level. Accessing, processing, and connecting family members through the power of emotional experience promotes healing and fosters a family’s resilience to the everyday and unexpected challenges of life.
The presenter will demonstrate how the EFT model of working with couples is extended and modified to fit the family context. 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 foundational in helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached.
This workshop combines didactic instruction, experiential exercises, and case examples to demonstrate the practice of EFFT. Participants are encouraged to bring examples from their casework to explore the application of EFFT to their own work. Videotaped and/or live demonstration sessions are included.
Program Objectives:
- Analyze family distress using theories of emotion and attachment
- Utilize key practices of EFFT from EFT work with couples
- Identify the stages and marker of change in the EFFT approach
- Identify therapist practices that promote a working alliance with parents and children
- Compile strategies for strengthening parental ownership for the EFFT process
- Apply key interventions common to processing attachment related affect
- Describe a 5-step sequence for accessing and working with emotion in family relationships
- Analyze parent-child interactions using EFT practices to work through specific relational blocks
- Demonstrate enactments used to restructure new patterns of interaction promoting new levels of safety and security in the family
- Identify differences in applying EFFT to treatment of step-family relationships
- Explain the relationship of secure attachment to family patterns of resilience
SCHEDULE
Day 1
Morning Session: (9:30 – 12:45)
9:30 Introduction: Attachment, Emotion, and the Family System
Focus: Conceptualizing the family as an emotional system.
Method: Didactic Instruction, Experiential Exercises, Discussion
11:00 Break
11:15 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 Lunch
Afternoon Session: (1:45 – 5:00)
1:45 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
3:15 Break
3:30 EFFT: Assessment and Alliance Building
Focus: Stage 1 Practices in assessing families and building alliances.
Method: Didactic Instruction, Group discussion, Role Play, Video Example
4:45 Q&A Wrap-up
5:00 End
Day 2
Morning Session: (9:30 – 12:45)
9:30 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
11:00 Break
11:15 EFFT: Changing Family Patterns
Focus: EFFT Demonstration
Method: Live session or Video Taped Example and discussion
12:45 Lunch
Afternoon Session: (1:45– 5:00)
1:45 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
3:15 Break
3:30 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
4:45 Q&A Wrap-up
5:00 End
TARGET AUDIENCE
Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Psychologists
LEVEL
Beginning, Intermediate (Level 1)/Advanced (Level 2)
PRE-REQUISITE
No pre-requisite for level 1 but it is suggested to read Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy with Individuals, Couples and Families (2019) and/or Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: Restoring Connection and Promoting Resilience (2019). You must have taken level 1 before taking level 2.
CONTINUING EDUCATION [PENDING APPROVAL]
12 CEs included for no extra fee!
CEs (Continuing Education Hours) available for paying any additional fees, attending the entire program, signing in and out each day.
Continuing Education Credit is through Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) for the following professions only:
Psychologists:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Commonwealth Educational Seminars maintains responsibility for these programs and their content.
Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LPCs/LMHCs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Social Workers:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Social Workers. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for Social Workers. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Social Workers licensed in New York State - Commonwealth Educational Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #SW-0444.
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LMFTs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
You may also check the Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) website to see if your state and license (excluding nurses) is listed. However, you are ultimately responsible for verifying this information with your state board.
CE Grievance Policy:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to admin@southfloridaeft.com and be sure to include your full name and contact number. Grievances will receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
***It is the participant's responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.***
INVESTMENT
TBD
CONTACT
Any questions about this training or website tech issues email admin@southfloridaeft.com
12 CEs included for no extra fee!
CEs (Continuing Education Hours) available for paying any additional fees, attending the entire program, signing in and out each day.
Continuing Education Credit is through Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) for the following professions only:
Psychologists:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Commonwealth Educational Seminars maintains responsibility for these programs and their content.
Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LPCs/LMHCs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Social Workers:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Social Workers. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for Social Workers. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Social Workers licensed in New York State - Commonwealth Educational Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #SW-0444.
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LMFTs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
You may also check the Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) website to see if your state and license (excluding nurses) is listed. However, you are ultimately responsible for verifying this information with your state board.
CE Grievance Policy:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to admin@southfloridaeft.com and be sure to include your full name and contact number. Grievances will receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
***It is the participant's responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.***
INVESTMENT
TBD
CONTACT
Any questions about this training or website tech issues email admin@southfloridaeft.com