Couple Counselling - Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy

Overview

What you will learn

The learning outcomes of the Couple Counselling - Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy course offered by Singapore University of Social Sciences are:

• Appraise the theoretical underpinnings of Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples

• Assess the ‘music of the dance’ between partners, and move the couple into effective loving and a relationship of interdependence

• Formulate the way EFT tenets are linked to key emotions and events in interactions between spouses/partners

• Compose interventions on accessing key elements of emotional distress and de-escalating destructive interaction patterns

• Construct positive interactions that renew trust and intimacy or reduce destructive interaction patterns

• Recommend the ways therapist is able to overcome therapeutic impasses in couple therapy

Objectives:

A. Knowledge and Understanding (Theory Component)

• Discuss the underpinnings and stages of Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples

• Explain the linkages of emotions and attachment needs with the interactions between spouses/partners

• Describe the applications of EFT interventions

• Understand how the therapist is able to overcome therapeutic impasses in EFT couple therapy

B. Key Skills (Practical Component)

• Demonstrate ability to apply some of the EFT intervention skills

• Develop intervention plans to address emotional distress and de-escalate destructive interaction patterns

• Strengthen positive interactions for couples to renew trust and intimacy

• Identify strengths in the couple relationship