A Primer For Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (efit) (cultivating Fitness And Growth In Every Client)

By (author) Johnson Susan M.; By (author) Campbell, T. Leanne
From best-selling author, Susan M. Johnson, with over 1 million books sold worldwide!This essential text from the leading authority on Emotionally Focused Therapy, Susan M. Johnson, and colleague, T. Leanne Campbell, applies the key interventions of EFT to work with individuals, providing an overview and clinical guide to treating clients with depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress. Designed for therapists at all levels of expertise, Johnson and Campbell focus on introducing clinicians to EFIT interventions, techniques, and change processes in a highly accessible and practical format. The book begins by summarizing attachment theory and science – the theoretical basis of this model – together with the experiential approach to change in psychotherapy. Chapters describe the three stages of EFIT, macro-interventions, such as the EFIT Tango, and various micro-interventions through clinical exercises, case studies, and transcripts to demonstrate this model in practice with individuals, highlighting the unique benefits of EFT as a cross-modality approach for treating emotional disorders. With exercises interwoven throughout the text, this book is built to accompany in-person and online training, helping the practicing clinician offer targeted and empirically tested interventions that not only alleviate symptoms of distress but expand the client’s emotional balance, agency, and sense of self. As the next major extension of the EFT approach, this book will appeal to therapists already working with couples and families as well as those just beginning their professional journey. Psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and mental health workers will also find this book invaluable.conceptual base for this therapy as well as pragmatic directions about what to do in session. The methods described build on Sue’s landmark widely disseminated evidence-based therapy for couples, bringing the insights from that work to individual therapy. Johnson and Campbell’s methods are a model of how to work with attachment and emotion in individual therapy. It is almost certain that EFIT will soon occupy a central place in individual therapy, just as EFCT has become the most widely practiced couple therapy. This is certainly a book that should be read by every individual therapist and therapist in training." Jay Lebow, Ph.D., Senior Scholar and Clinical Professor; Editor, Family Process The Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

"…the new EFIT book, which I think is very good and quite important:

This wonderful, inspiring book shares over 35 years of clinical experience in applying Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to instill life-altering positive change in individual clients. The authors do a beautiful job describing what Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is, how and why it works, and what makes it such an effective new form of therapy. This is required reading for therapists as well as those interested in improving the mental and emotional well-being of others." Jeffry Simpson, Ph.D., Distinguished University Teaching Professor; Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota

"In this sequel to Sue Johnson’s seminal book on EFT, the authors convey, both an academic and a visceral sense about the theory and practice of this innovative emotionally focused approach to the healing of deep developmental wounds. In their dynamic approach, therapists are lead, at each-step, how to safely open their clients to their emotional wounds, and to increase their capacity for self-reflection and authentic relationships. Without any doubt, this is a most important resource for all therapists wishing to do depth work with their clients." Peter A Levine, author of In an Unspoken Voice, and Trauma and Memory, Brain and Bo