Session B1 | 90 minute workshop
| Friday, February 26, 2027 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Bellarine Rooms |
Overview
Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy, Ladislav Timulak
Presenter
Professor Ladislav Timulak
Trinity College Dublin
Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy
11:00 AM - 12:30 PMAbstract
Recent years have seen the emergence of transdiagnostic psychotherapeutic treatments, typically targeting depression, anxiety and related disorders. The rationale for developing transdiagnostic protocols is based on a number of factors; shared etiology and maintenance mechanisms, high co-morbidity, hypothesising that discrete disorders may be underpinned by common psychological vulnerabilities, and the burden currently placed on clinicians to master multiple disorder-specific interventions. This workshop will present a transdiagnostic model of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT-T), which combines modular (targeting specific clusters of symptoms) and shared mechanisms (targeting underlying vulnerability) approaches to the treatment of depression, anxiety and related disorders such as obsessive-compulsive and trauma/stressor related disorders. The model proposes that clients’ core vulnerabilities are linked to specific chronic painful feelings, and that these chronic feelings are constellations of sadness/loneliness, shame, and fear-based emotions, idiosyncratically shaped by personal history. The workshop will illustrate how EFT-T addresses problematic symptoms but primarily focuses on transforming emotion vulnerability, or Core Pain, by activating adaptive emotional responses, such as compassion and protective anger, to embedded unmet needs. The workshop will offer a combination of didactic teaching, videos and discussion.
Learning Outcomes
- To learn about transdiagnostic approach to psychopathology and therapy.
- To learn about transdiagnostic emotion-focused therapy.
- To learn to differentiate between symptom level and core vulnerability level distress.
Learning Outcomes
- To learn about transdiagnostic approach to psychopathology and therapy.
- To learn about transdiagnostic emotion-focused therapy.
- To learn to differentiate between symptom level and core vulnerability level distress.
.....
Ladislav Timulak, PhD is Professor in Counselling Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he was a longstanding Course Director of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Ladislav (“Laco”—read “Latso”) is involved in various psychotherapy trainings in Ireland and internationally. His main research interest is psychotherapy research, particularly the development of emotion-focused therapy (EFT). He currently is adapting this form of therapy as a transdiagnostic treatment for depression, anxiety, and related disorders. He is also researching the use of mental health interventions delivered online. At his university, he directs the Emotion-Focused Therapy Research Group and in the past co-directed the E-Mental Health Research Group. He has written or co-written ten books, more than 130 peer reviewed papers and chapters in both his native language, Slovak, and in English. His most recent books include Transforming Emotional Pain in Psychotherapy: An Emotion-Focused Approach (2015; with the second edition coming out in 2027), Transforming Generalized Anxiety: An Emotion-Focused Approach (with James McElvaney; 2018); Essentials of Descriptive-Interpretive Qualitative Research: A Generic Approach (with co-author Robert Elliott); Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy (with co-author Daragh Keogh); Essentials of Qualitative Meta-Analysis (with Mary Creaner) and Transforming Emotional Pain: An Emotion-Focused Workbook. with several co-authors. He is the current president of the international Society for Psychotherapy Research. He has served on editorial boards of many international journals in the area of counselling psychology and psychotherapy and in the past also as a co-editor of Counselling Psychology Quarterly. He maintains a part-time private practice.
TCD Website:https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=timulakl
Google Scholar Website:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NoS4378AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Visit the conference website
APS Conference and Events Team | 03 8662 3300 | conferences@psychology.org.au
