Emotion-Focused Therapy (7 CE)

Course Level: Intermediate

This Course Is For: Psychologists, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

Course By: Alden Hori, PhD

Dr. Hori earned a PhD in psychology from the University of California at Riverside. He was an Associate-In Professor and Research Assistant at the University of California at Riverside, where he supervised the completion of over 50 research projects in psychology. He is credited with three publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Content By: Leslie Greenberg, PhD

About the Author: Leslie Greenberg, PhD, is distinguished research professor of psychology at York University in Toronto and director of the York University Psychotherapy Research Clinic. He has authored the major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment. His most recent book is Theory of Emotion-Focused Therapy (2011). Dr. Greenberg is a past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), and he is a recipient of the SPR Distinguished Research Career award and the Carl Rogers Award of the American Psychological Association. He conducts a private practice for individuals and couples and offers training in emotion-focused approaches.

Course Description:
This course, Emotion-Focused Therapy, provides an introduction to the theory, history, research, and practice of this emotion-centered, humanistic approach. Emotion-focused therapy is a complete theory of human functioning based on the adaptive role of emotion and on a therapy practice founded on the idea that emotional change is central to enduring change. This therapy emphasizes the awareness, acceptance, understanding, and transformation of emotion, and proposes that emotions themselves have an adaptive potential that, if activated, can help clients to change. Emotion-focused therapists help clients to experience their emotions in the safe setting of therapy so that, rather than avoiding or controlling their feelings, clients learn to use them as a guide to what is important or necessary in their lives. In this course, Leslie S. Greenberg presents and explores this versatile and useful approach, its theory, history, therapy process, primary change mechanisms, the empirical basis for its effectiveness, and recent developments that have refined the theory and expanded how it may be practiced.

Learning Objectives:

1. Summarize the core concepts and conceptual framework underlying Emotion-Focused Therapy
2. Delineate the historical evolution of Emotion-Focused Therapy
3. Evaluate the role of emotion in the theory underlying Emotion-Focused Therapy
4. Evaluate the major treatment principles underlying Emotion-Focused Therapy
5. Evaluate the research in support of the effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy

Course Completion Requirements: Customer will purchase book separately from Amazon.com or other book seller for course content (Emotion-Focused Therapy, Leslie Greenberg, PhD, American Psychological Assn Publications, ISBN-13: 978-1433808579). All other course materials are included in your AATBS student account. Attendees must read the course material and complete the accompanying test with a score of 75% or higher. Customers may retest if they score below 75%.

Evaluation: The course evaluation is also accessible in your student account. After completing the course, you will need to complete the course evaluation.

How certificate is issued: When all requirements for the course have been successfully completed, customers will be able to access and print a personal CE certificate in their student account.

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