professional development in canterbury

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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Training: the core skills training

Presenter: Rebecca Jorgenson

Emotionally Focused Therapy reflects the most recent research on the nature of relationship distress, of adult love, and of emotion. It is at the leading/emergent edge of relationship therapy. EFT is a short term, focused treatment that blends family systems and experiential approaches to therapy with attachment theory. EFT is supported by a developed research base and has strong empirical evidence of its effectiveness.

For those wanting to train further in EFT or gain certification we are offering the first 4 days of the Core Skills Training. The Core Skills training is the more advanced training, you must have completed the Externship first. Is run in four 2-day workshops, we are offering the first two modules in August. Enrolments will only be accepted for both the 2-day workshops, you can’t enrol for only one. These will be followed by another two 2-day workshops within approximately 6-12 months, thereby reducing international travel costs.

Required reading for the training is Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist and Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection.

When: 20-21 August (Fri & Sat) & 1-2 September (Wed & Thurs) 2010
Where: Christchurch
Cost: the fee for two 2-day workshops (four days training) is $1450 including GST. This includes any course materials and morning and afternoon teas.
For enrolments or further information: Kirby Faulkner kirbyf@relationships.org.nz,  ph (04) 4728798 (NB: limited to 15 participants, it is essential to enrol by 2 July 2010).
Brochure: » download now

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Motivational Interviewing (MI)

Presenter: Dr Eileen Britt

MI is a collaborative client-centred form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change, which provides a means of working with clients who are ambivalent about change. It has proven efficacy as an intervention for substance use problems (e.g., alcohol abuse and dependence). Additionally, there is increasing evidence of its effectiveness across a broad range of behaviours, including health behaviour change (e.g. medication compliance, diet and exercise, diabetes), offending, and psychological disorders (e.g., eating and anxiety disorders).

This workshop will present an overview of MI research, theory and practice. The workshop is designed to be interactive. Participants will experience and practice MI, and receive feedback on this practice during the workshop, and for this reason numbers attending will be limited. The overall aims of the workshop are that participants will:

• develop an understanding of what MI is
• develop an understanding of the evidence-base for MI and how it works
• develop an understanding of the fundamental spirit and principles of MI
• learn the basic clinical style of MI, and how to continue learning it in practice

Dr Eileen Britt is a Clinical Psychologist and Fellow of the NZCCP. She is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch) in the Health Sciences Centre, teaching two post-graduate papers on Motivational Interviewing, and on the Post-Graduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology programme, where she is also currently Director of Clinical Training. Eileen is also employed as a Research Fellow, providing supervision on psychotherapy research trials, at the Department of Psychological Medicine (Christchurch). Her PhD was on MI applied to diabetes self-management, and she currently has three papers on MI published in peer reviewed journals. Eileen has attended training for Motivational Interviewing Trainers (partially funded by the NZCCP Study/Research Award), and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

When: 6 & 7 December 2010
Where: Christchurch
Cost: free to NZCCP members; non-members $250
Registration form: » download now
For details: see www.nzccp.co.nz