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Process Experiential - An Emotion-Focused Approach to Therapy Certificate ProgramInstructor: Dr. Jeanne Watson, Ph.D., C. Psych.
Process Experiential - An Emotion-Focused Approach to Therapy (PE-EFT) is an active, evidence-based, integrative approach to therapy that focuses on helping people become aware of and express their emotions, learn to tolerate and regulate them, reflect on them to make sense of them and transform them. PE-EFT has been shown to be effective in treating individuals with a number of different disorders including depression, trauma, anxiety, and eating disorders. One of the most exciting, rapidly developing clinical intervention models within the person-centred-experiential tradition is PE-EFT, which has gained international recognition through the work of Jeanne Watson, Les Greenberg, Robert Elliott, Rhonda Goldman and their colleagues.
Course Description:
The PE-EFT Certificate Program will provide participants with a solid grounding in the skills required to work more directly with emotion and emotional experiences in psychotherapy. Participants will receive in-depth skills training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, case discussions, and extensive supervised role-playing practice. The workshop will begin with a PE-EFT perspective on empathy. It will continue with a discussion of basic principles and the role of emotion and emotional awareness in function and dysfunction. Different interventions based on process diagnosis will be demonstrated.
Videotaped examples of evidence based methods for evoking and exploring emotion and dealing with overwhelming emotions, puzzling emotional reactions, painful self-criticism, and emotional injuries from the past will be presented and discussed.
Participants will be trained in the skills of moment-by-moment attunement to affect, and the use of methods designed to help clients dialogue with parts of the self. This training will provide therapists from different therapeutic perspectives including person-centred, CBT, narrative, and interpersonal with an opportunity to develop their therapeutic skills and ability to work effectively with emotion.
Participants in the training program will learn:
- To implement the basic principles of PE-EFT
- To identify different types of emotional expression
- When to help clients contain and when to access emotion
- How to access adaptive emotions to produce change
- To facilitate emotional processing to resolve self-critical splits and unfinished business
The PE-EFT Certificate Program consists of the successful completion of three of the four courses listed below for a total of 39 hours of instruction. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 or Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 will qualify for the Certificate Program. All courses are designed as individual workshops or as a certificate program.
Part 1:
PE-EFT: Foundations, Emotion, Empathy, and Alliance Formation
This 2-day course will provide an overview of the conceptual foundation of PE-EFT and core therapeutic components.
The following topics will be covered:
- Distinctive features of the PE-EFT: Neohumanism & therapeutic principles
- Process-Experiential Emotion Theory: Emotion Schemes
- Empathic attunement
- Validation
- Creating an alliance
Date: December 3 & 4, 2010
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Part 2:
PE-EFT: Essential Skills
Prerequisites: Part 1 or equivalent
During this 2-day course, participants will learn the following:
Therapeutic tasks and process formulation
- Attachment theory and therapeutic change
- Empathic exploration, evocative empathy, empathic conjecture
- Empathic exploration as a therapeutic task
- Skills practice
Increasing Emotional Awareness & Internal Search Processes - Emotion regulation
- Focusing and Clearing a Space
- Evocative unfolding
- Skills practice
Working with conditions of worth and negative treatment of self
- Dialectical constructivist models of self
- Two chair dialogue and splits
- Skills practice
Facilitating Differentiation
- Emotion response types & emotional change principles
- Accessing adaptive and problematic emotional responses
- Accessing core problematic emotion schemes
- Empty chair dialogue and unfinished business
- Skills practice
Restructuring Core Schemes
- Working with problematic experiences
- Helping clients use primary emotions to challenge core problematic emotion schemes
- Provision of new experiences
- Skills practice
Empirical Support, Self-soothing & Meaning Creation - Summary of Research evidence
- Supporting a self-affirming stance
- Promoting new narrative constructions
- Skills practice
Date: April 15-16, 2010
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Part 3:
PE-EFT: Case-Based Learning
Prerequisites: Part 1 or equivalent and Part 2
During this 2-day course, participants will learn to apply their core knowledge and essential skills in PE-EFT by discussing actual case scenarios and engaging in role plays. The following topics will be covered: - Practical parameters
- Depression, Post-traumatic stress difficulties
- Social anxiety
- Borderline processes
- Skill training
- Contraindications
Date: TBD
Part 4
PE-EFT: Clinical Application in Actual Practice
Prerequisites: Part 1 or equivalent and Part 2
This longitudinal 6-week course (3-hour sessions) will be a practical, hands-on course, providing an opportunity for participants to share cases drawn from their own clinical practice. With client consent, participants will bring in actual data (e.g. audio or videotape of sessions) and use these recordings for consultation in small groups.
Date: TBD
About the Instructor:
An eminent leader in psychotherapy research, Dr. Jeanne Watson divides her time between research, teaching and maintaining a part-time private practice in Toronto. She has given workshops on PE-EFT and empathy training in Europe and the United States.
As Professor in the Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto, Dr. Watson conducts research on empathy, depression and psychotherapy process and outcome in PE-EFT. She also offers workshops in PE-EFT and teaches courses in counselling theory and practice to Masters and Ph.D. students in the postgraduate course in Counselling Psychology at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Watson was the recipient of the Outstanding Early Achievement Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research in 2001. She has co-authored and edited several books on counselling practice, including Learning Emotion Focused Therapy (2004), Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the 21st Century (2002), Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy, Emotion-focused Therapy for Depression (2005), and, most recently, Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression (2007).
Dr. Watson obtained her PhD from York University in Clinical Psychology. She is a registered psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
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