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AAMFT
Institutes for Advanced Clinical
Training
March
3 - 7, 2010
Panama
City Beach,FL
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Harnessing Powerful
Attachment Affect
Brent Bradley,
Ph.D.
 Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
is an empirically supported approach to couples therapy. Its
usage and research-base is continually expanding, in part
because it emphasizes adult attachment theory and the healthy
need for love and interdependence. EFT offers a comprehensive
theory of adult love and attachment, and an approach to
healing distressed relationships. This experiential/systemic
therapy focuses on helping partners restructure the emotional
responses that maintain their negative interaction patterns.
In EFT the therapist leads the couple away from conflict
deadlock into new bonding interactions. EFT is one of a few
empirically-supported approaches to couple therapy.
In this Institute participants will learn
the nine steps and three stages of EFT, focusing on how to
help couples get out of their negative interactional cycles
and into accessing/expanding/sharing attachment-related
affect. The presenter will demonstrate various stages of EFT
in leader role-plays, small group practices, his own
in-session videos and those from Dr. Susan Johnson to help
participants gain a greater cognitive and experiential
understanding of EFT. This institute will be beneficial for
those new to EFT, those experienced in EFT, and those seeking
to better teach or supervise within the approach.
This institute will balance didactic and
experiential learning - all within a safe and fun
environment. Come join us!
Participants will gain an
understanding of:
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an EFT/Attachment view of adult intimate
relationships.
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bringing attachment theory into the session to
guide the processing of emotion.
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the process of change in EFT.
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the nine steps of EFT.
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the three overall stages of EFT.
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therapists skills & interventions.
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accessing and heightening emotion.
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restructuring interactions.
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therapist content themes & key interventions of
successful softening events (the most difficult part of the
approach for both therapists & couples).
Course Schedule
Thursday, March 4-Sunday March 7, 2010
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each day
This course provides 20 hours of continuing education.
Brent Bradley, PhD is an Associate
Professor of Family Therapy at the University of Houston-Clear
Lake in Houston, TX. He has done extensive original research
on therapist facilitation of EFT Softening Events. He is also
a regular co-author with Susan Johnson, presents at national
conferences, and holds his own annual EFT externships in LA
and Houston. He authored the chapter on Softening Events in
the recently published Becoming an Emotionally Focused
Couple Therapist: The Workbook and has published numerous
journal articles and textbook chapters. Brent is well known
for his passionate and dynamic teaching style. Dr. Bradley is
a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an AAMFT-Approved
Supervisor and Clinical Member. He is a Certified EFT
therapist, supervisor, and trainer.
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