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Emotionally Focused Family Therapy with Jim Furrow and Lisa Palmer Olsen
September 6, 2019 - September 7, 2019
September 6 – 7, 2019
Moreland Presbyterian Church
1814 SE Bybee Blvd
Portland, OR 97202
Cost
$450 ($425 for OCEFT Members)
Workshop 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. This workshop 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 transformative approach that is foundational in helping parents and children who are struggling with remaining securely attached.
Workshop Format
This workshop will combine 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. When possible, live demonstration sessions are included.
Learning Objectives
Participants will…
- Conceptualize family distress using theories of emotion and attachment.
- Delineate key practices of EFFT from EFT work with couples.
- Identify the stages and markers of change in the EFFT approach.
- Identify therapist practices that promote a working alliance with parents and children.
- Gain strategies for strengthening parental ownership of the EFFT process.
- Practice key interventions common to processing attachment related affect.
- Examine 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.
- Practice enactments used to restructure new patterns of interaction promoting new levels of safety and security in the family.
- Explore the relationship of secure attachment to family patterns of resilience.
Proposed Schedule
Sessions: (1.5 hours each)
- Introduction: Attachment, Emotion, and the Family System
Focus: Conceptualizing the family as an emotional system.
Method: Didactic Instruction, Experiential Exercises, Discussion
- 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
- 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
- EFFT: Assessment and Alliance Building
Focus: Stage 1 Practices in assessing families and building alliances.
Method: Didactic Instruction, Group discussion, Role Play, Video Example
- 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
- EFFT: Changing Family Patterns
Focus: EFFT Demonstration
Method: Live session or Video Taped Example and discussion
- 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
- EFFT: Stage 3: Consolidation and Promoting Resilience
Focus: Review of final steps in EFFT and promoting family resilience through attachment
Presenters
James Furrow, Ph.D.
ICEEFT Certified Trainer and Supervisor
Lisa Palmer-Olsen, PsyD
ICEEFT Certified Trainer and Supervisor
