Growth in challenging situations: A qualitative investigation of therapists' experience of delivering emotion-focused therapy.

Psychotherapy does not work equally well for all clients. For research to support clinicians in helping more clients, we need to better understand the process of when therapy become particularly challenging. In this study, we investigated challenging change processes from the therapists' perspective when applying Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).

Effects of emotionally oriented parental interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates the effects of emotionally oriented parental interventions.

Background: Several emotionally oriented parental interventions have been developed during the last decade. Some of these have gained popularity and spread across several continents.

The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children.

Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST) is a short-term parental intervention based on humanistic principles. While studies have demonstrated the efficacy of EFST in alleviating child mental health symptoms, the mechanisms by which this happens is less clear. The present study investigated whether program participation led to improvements in the parents' own mental health, emotion regulation, and self-efficacy, and compared two versions of EFST: one involving evocative techniques, and one involving didactic teaching of skills.

Emotion-focused skills training for parents with anxious children. A pilot study.

Anxiety disorders are common among children and adolescents. Effective treatments exist, but meta-analyses indicate that 40% of children continue to have significant symptoms posttreatment. Alternative therapeutic interventions are needed.

Effectiveness of emotion focused skills training for parents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial in specialist mental health care.

Background: Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST) is a newly developed manualized skill training program for parents to strengthen emotional bonds between parents and children and improve mental health outcomes in children. Results from several preliminary trials indicate that EFST can be quite effective, but more rigorous methods are needed to affirm the evidence of the program. The primary objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of EFST to treatment as usual (TAU) in a Norwegian outpatient clinic for child and adolescent mental health.

Efficacy of Emotion-Focused Parenting Programs for Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Study.

Objective: Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST) is a 12-week parental program based on Emotion-Focused Therapy, developed to improve children and adolescents' mental health problems.

Methods: In a randomized clinical dismantling study, including parents of 236 children and adolescents (ages 6-13, M 8.9, 60.

Parenthood-Lost and Found: Exploring Parents' Experiences of Receiving a Program in Emotion Focused Skills Training.

Background: Parents play a crucial role in the development, maintenance, and deterioration of child difficulties. Emotion focused skills training (EFST) targets parents' capacity to provide their child with emotion-oriented skills in order to promote good child mental health. Few qualitative studies have specifically investigated parents' experiences of receiving such programs.

"You Feel They Have a Heart and Are Not Afraid to Show It": Exploring How Clients Experience the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therapy.

The therapeutic relationship is regarded as an important source of change in emotion-focused therapy (EFT) (Greenberg, 2014; Watson, 2018), but few qualitative studies have specifically investigated how clients experience the role of the relationship in EFT. The purpose of the present study was to explore what clients experienced as helpful or hindering aspects of the therapeutic relationship when undergoing EFT for depression, anxiety, and severe self-criticism. We interviewed 18 clients after a clinical trial of time-limited EFT, to explore their experiences of the relationship with their therapist during treatment.

Does an emotion-focused two-chair dialogue add to the therapeutic effect of the empathic attunement to affect?

An increasing amount of research suggests that it is beneficial to work explicitly with emotions in psychotherapy. Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) utilizes interventions that are thought to enhance the evocativeness of emotional processing and facilitate explorations of new meaning. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of such an intervention on therapeutic outcome.