Attachment in Action – Susan Johnson

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With all the hundreds of models and interventions practitioners use and the vast range of disorders they treat, attachment science offers therapists a coherent framework for understanding clients’ problems and leading them home to balance, agency, and connection with others.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), epitomizes attachment-based intervention and can be used in all modalities—not just in a couples therapy context. This paradigm offers specific and on-target principles of intervention for clients struggling with depression, anxiety, and distressed relationships.

In this workshop recording, using video clips of sessions and short exercises, we’ll explore how these principles can be applied in individual, couple, and family sessions to ultimately transform both self and system.

1. Outline the cross-modality attachment-oriented principles of intervention.
2. Describe how the principles of EFT can be applied in different forms of therapy.
3. Explain specific sequences of intervention that lead to change in self and system.
4. Use focused empathic reflection to reconnect, repair, and rebuild clients’ bonds.

THE CHAOS IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

• The needs for an integrative solution for the field of psychotherapy
• The best solution for an integrative solution for the field of psychotherapy

ATTACHMENT THEORY

• The core tenets
• Features of more securely attached partners

EFT, ATTACHMENT THEORY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
• EFT Stages
• EFT is Experiential
• EFT is Systemic
• Emotion

MICRO-INTERVENTIONS IN EFT

• The two tasks of EFT
• RISSSC
• The 5 steps of the EFT Tango

CHANGE EVENTS IN EFT

• Traditional Couple Therapy – EFT and EFFT (Emotionally Focused Family Therapy)
• Traditional Family Model – EFFT
• Model of Individual Therapy – EFIT (Emotional Focused Individual Therapy)

A VIDEO DEMONSTRATING EFIT