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Digital Seminar

When Hurting Helps: Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to Transform Trauma and Self-Harm


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Speaker:
Susan Johnson, EdD
Duration:
1 Hour
Copyright:
02 Oct, 2023
Product Code:
POS059569
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

The aim of all therapists is to heal, so it is particularly challenging to work with clients who intentionally self-harm. Learn directly from Dr. Sue Johnson, treatment developer of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, who will show you how to: 

  • Facilitate the safe haven needed to explore destructive behaviors 
  • Identify and work with the core emotions that trigger negative coping 
  • Create corrective emotional experiences that spur growth and positive coping 

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

This online program is worth 1 hours CPD.



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Susan Johnson, EdD's Profile

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The late Susan Johnson, EdD, was a best-selling author, clinical psychologist, distinguished research professor, dynamic speaker, and recognized innovator who changed the field of couple therapy. Sue was the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research. She was the director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and a distinguished research professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California, as well as professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She trained behavioral health providers in EFT worldwide and is still recognized as one of the most prominent researchers and presenters in the couple therapy field.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sue Johnson had employment relationships with University of British Columbia, Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group, Alliant International, University Ottawa, Couple and Family Institute, and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She received royalties as a published author. Dr. Johnson received a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She had no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sue Johnson served on the editorial board for the American Journal of Family Therapy (AJFT) and the journal Couple and Family Psychology: Research & Practice.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

 


Objectives

  1. Utilize a non-pathologizing approach to create a strong therapeutic alliance that allows clients to share information about self-destructive behaviors  
  2. Determine the core emotions that trigger self-harm as coping for traumatized clients.
  3. Utilize interventions from the EFIT Tango to reduce self-harm behaviors.
     

Outline

Top tips for creating a supportive and secure therapy framework 

How to understand and talk about self-destructive behaviors from an attachment lens 

EFIT overview: fitting the need for emotional balance with an attachment-based roadmap 

Ask evocative questions to unpack emotions and deepen emotional experience safely 

Construct corrective emotional experiences to resolve blocks to growth 

Limitations of the research and potential risks 
 

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professionals 
  • Counselors 
  • Marriage & Family Therapists 
  • Psychologists 
  • Psychiatrists 
  • Social Workers 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals 

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