CENTRE FOR TREATMENT OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND CHILDHOOD TRAUMA PRESENTS
LES GREENBERG
EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
AUGUST 26, 2014
DELTA OTTAWA CITY CENTRE, 101 LYON STREET
EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY OF
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is an evidence based treatment that helps
people activate their underlying maladaptive emotion schemes, often of
attachment fear and identity shame, that underlie the affective disorders, to
make them amenable to alternative emotional adaptive responses to
situations. Access to emotions such as empowering anger at violation and
sadness at loss, as well as more compassionate sentiments toward the self,
help people modulate their affective reactions and this helps them combat
depressogenic feelings of powerlessness, hopelessness, contempt and
shame and insecure feelings of anxious attachment. This leads to a change
in self and self-other narratives.
The workshop will begin with a discussion of the role of emotion and
emotional awareness in function and dysfunction. The importance of working
with amygdala based emotion will be emphasized. The use of processdiagnosis to identify opportunities for intervention and different types of
emotion will be discussed. Differential intervention based on process
diagnosis will be demonstrated. Six major principles of emotional change in
psychotherapy Emotion Awareness, Expression, Regulation, Reflection
Transformation, and Corrective emotional experience will be discussed.
Videotaped examples of evidence based, methods for evoking and dealing
with emotions in Self-critical and Dependent depression and in Social and
Generalized anxiety will be presented and discussed. The micro-skills of
moment by moment empathic attunement to affect, and the use of psychodramatic methods of dialoguing with parts of self and imagined significant
others in an empty chair will be demonstrated.
ABOUT LES GREENBERG
Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of
Psychology at York University, Toronto, and Director of the Emotion-focused
Therapy Clinic. He has authored texts on Emotion-focused approaches to
treatment having published 17 books and over 100 articles. He has received
the American Psychological association Award for Distinguished
Professional Contribution to Applied Research, the Distinguished Research
Career award of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research, the
Carl Rogers award of the American Psychology Association, the Canadian
Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to
Psychology as a Profession and the Canadian Council of Professional
Psychology award for Excellence in Professional Training.
TO REGISTER & FOR MORE INFO
http://lesgreenberg2014.eventzilla.net/
Early Bird (before July 9th)
$200
CTSACT Members
$200
Regular Fee (after July 9th)
$250
Student Rate (full time student)
$100
More information please visit emotionfocusedclinic.org/
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