EFT For Depression and Anxiety

Date: 5 Aug 2016 - 6 Aug 2016

Singapore

Depression is a complex biopsychosocial phenomenon. No single cause can be isolated. When people are depressed, they have disturbances at many levels of functioning. People who are depressed experience not only a loss of ability to feel interest, pleasure, and joy, but also an increase in sadness, anger, anxiety, and shame.

Anxiety is a persistent fear or worry. It come from Latin verb “angere", meaning “to cause torment or distress by choking or squeezing”, indicating how important bodily experiences of constriction or tightening, are in the phenomenology of anxiety. On the other hand, at manageable, mild to moderate levels, anxiety can also be useful, because it helps us be on the alert for possible dangers and prepares us for taking effective action.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) proposes that emotions have an adaptive potential that, if activated, can help clients change. This view of emotion is based on the belief that emotion, at its core, is an innate and adaptive system that has evolved to help us survive and thrive.

Clients are helped in therapy to better identify, experience, explore, make sense of, transform and flexibly manage their emotions. As a result, clients become more skillful in accessing the important information and meanings about themselves and their world that emotions contain, as well as become more skillful
in using that information to live vitally and adaptively.

Course Content

• Typology of depression and anxiety.

• Emotions in depression and anxiety.

• EFT model of resolving hopelessness in depression

• Using chair-work in working clients with anxiety.

• Case formulation of depression and anxiety using EFT

• EFT interventions for depression and anxiety.

Workshop Presenter - Prof. Rhonda N. Goldman

Rhonda N. Goldman, PhD, is a professor at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Schaumburg and a therapist affiliate of the Family Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she works with both couples and individuals. She practices, teaches, and conducts research on emotional processes and outcomes in Emotion-Focused Therapy and has written on empathy, vulnerability, depression and case formulation. She was the recipient of the Carmi Harrari Early Career Award (2011) from the Society of Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. She is currently president of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI).

Duration: 9 am to 5 pm

Venue: Lifelong Learning Institute at Paya Lebar

Website: Go to event website

Brochure: Download

Fees:
$800 Early Bird Fee [Before 4th July 2016]
$900 Normal Fee [From 4th July 2016]

Language: English

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