Emotion-Focused Therapy Deliberate Practice

Emotion-focused therapy views emotion as a path to greater awareness of what is important to the client and reaches past awareness and acceptance of emotion by helping clients make sense of their feelings and transform their core painful emotions. In Emotion-Focused Therapy in Deliberate Practice, Rhonda N. Goldman supervises a series of role-playing scenarios in which two trainees take turns acting as client and therapist in a series of exercises to improve their clinical practice.

Dr. Goldman guides the trainees through the application of specific emotion-focused therapy techniques and skills, such as empathetic affirmation-validation, empathetic conjunctures, and repairing relationship ruptures. Host Alexandre Vaz in turn provides feedback to Dr. Goldman and the trainees on their use of deliberate practice in these exercises. This useful demonstration is framed by an informative discussion with the host about how deliberate practice is used in learning and improving emotion-focused therapy skills.

The Deliberate Practice Video Series presents various renowned psychologists and their trainees performing experiential exercises to learn and improve clinical skills. Deliberate practice is a rigorous training method that involves repeated behavioral rehearsal and simulation-based learning to improve therapy techniques. Designed for clinical training and continuing education, this video series will provide a tool for viewers to observe and apply deliberate practice to teaching their students or to improve their own performance. This video series stands alone but works well for training in conjunction with the Essentials of Deliberate Practice Book Series. Each video will center around a brief interview with a guest expert on how deliberate practice is done within the guest expert’s particular approach to psychotherapy followed by the guest expert and their students demonstrating several deliberate practice exercises.

Emotion-focused therapy views emotion as a path to greater awareness of what is important to the client and reaches past awareness and acceptance of emotion by helping clients make sense of their feelings and transform their core painful emotions. In Emotion-Focused Therapy in Deliberate Practice, Rhonda N. Goldman supervises a series of role-playing scenarios in which two trainees take turns acting as client and therapist in a series of exercises to improve their clinical practice. Dr. Goldman guides the trainees through the application of specific emotion-focused therapy techniques and skills, such as empathetic affirmation-validation, empathetic conjunctures, and repairing relationship ruptures.  Host Alexandre Vaz in turn provides feedback to Dr. Goldman and the trainees on their use of deliberate practice in these exercises. This useful demonstration is framed by an informative discussion with the host about how deliberate practice is used in learning and improving emotion-focused therapy skills.

Rhonda N. Goldman, PhD, is a professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and president of Emotion-Focused Therapy, Chicago. She also conducts training workshops internationally throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

She has authored or edited multiple books, including Clinical Handbook of Emotion-Focused Therapy (2019), Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy (2015), and Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (2008), the latter two having companion videos with the same titles.

She received the 2011 Carmi Harari Early Career Award from APA Division 32 (Society of Humanistic Psychology). Dr. Goldman is a founding board member of the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy.

APA videos

Providing Emotion-Focused Therapy Online
Rhonda N. Goldman, PhD

Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy
Rhonda N. Goldman, PhD

Emotion-Focused Therapy Supervision
Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD

Motivational Interviewing Deliberate Practice
Jennifer K. Manuel, PhD

Multicultural Therapy Deliberate Practice
Jordan Harris, PhD

Systemic Family Therapy Deliberate Practice
Debra Miller, PhD

Child and Adolescent Therapy Deliberate Practice
Jordan Bate, PhD