Emotionally Focused Therapy: Recognizing and Healing Attachment Distress in Couples Work

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples is a collaborative and respectful form of therapy as well as a leading form of marital therapy treatment. EFT is designed as a structured and short-term approach (between eight and twenty sessions). There is a substantial history of research highlighting EFT's effectiveness. Research indicates that 70-75% of studied couples transition from marital distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements. There is also research on the change process and predictors of success.

EFT is based on a clear, explicit attachment conceptualization of adult love and marital distress. Empirical research on the nature of marital distress and adult attachment supports these conceptualizations. Change strategies and interventions are specific and clear, and key moments and moves in the change process have been mapped out into nine distinct steps and three stages of change.

The goals of EFT are to:

1. Re-organize and expand partners' key emotional responses;
2. Shift partner’s interactional positions and start new patterns of interaction;
3. Allow a secure bond to be created between partners.

This presentation provides an overview of the theory and practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy with special emphasis on the attachment and attachment affect in this systems framework. The objective of this workshop is for participants to gain a basic understanding of how attachment theory and attachment framed affect combines to heal couple distress in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

This introductory web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Explain the unique power attachment theory brings to understanding couple distress;
2. Describe how couple distress becomes self-maintaining;
3. Apply a system perspective to create the first change event in healing couple distress;
4. Utilize the unique power attachment framed affect has in healing couple distress to create secure attachment.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

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GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE 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 #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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