Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples

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This one credit intensive elective will offer an introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT), an evidence-based approach to couple treatment. This model emphasizes the importance of attachment, and the relationship distress that results from threats to safety, security and closeness by focusing on the emotions each one in the couple is experiencing. Through lecture, slides, video tapes and experiential exercises, students will become familiar with the nine steps of EFT as well as the specific skills and interventions used in this model.