BEYOND CULTURAL HUMILiTY:
Attachment & Cultural Thriving for Couples of Color
TRAINER: Paul Guillory, Ph.D.
In this training Dr. Guillory will demonstrate the powerful effectiveness of using both an EFT map for working with romantic bonds and using a model of culture to enhance clinical attunement and attachment love with couples of color. Culture identity is typically treated as a demographic category. By extension, the internal working model of cultural identity is a clinical blind spot. In his book Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples, the presenter suggests that therapists work most effectively with Black couples (and Couples of Color) when they have a conceptual model for cultural matters, including internalize wounds, dynamic cultural identity, race-based events, and racial trauma. This intermediate workshop addresses useful clinical concepts (e.g., negative cultural priming, racial distress cues, cultural identity as a dynamic process) and how they can be integrated into couples’ therapy. Case studies and video clips of clinical interventions illustrate the work.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Demonstrate two ways cultural can be broach in therapy.
2. Discuss three ways in which EFT couple interventions can be used in working with couples in therapy.
3. Describe the major concepts of EFT that are associated with positive treatment outcomes
4. Explain how couples therapy can be used when concepts related to race/cultural matters, including racism, race-based events, racial distress cues, and racial trauma, emerge in therapy.
5. Describe culture & EFT interventions for negative couple interactions and the process of healing conversations with couples.
Location:
Tivoli Building, Room 640, Auraria Campus
Prerequisite:
We will be talking about our EFT work, some exposure to EFT will be helpful as this is not an intro to EFT.
Registration:
$129/$99(student rate)
This event is co-sponsored by Delta Kappa, CU Denver’s MFT Student Society
The Trainer
Dr. Guillory is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Clinical Science Program, Psychology Department. He has taught courses on Emotionally Focused Therapies at U.C. Berkeley. He is a certified ICEEFT trainer, supervisor, and therapist of Emotionally Focused Therapy. Dr. Guillory is the author of Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals Routledge. He has produced two series of powerful clinical training videos that are grounded in the clinical chapters of Love Heals. He is the former chairperson of the Northern California Community of Emotionally Focused Therapy. Dr. Guillory was the psychological consultant to the Oakland Raiders professional football team and the National Football League for 14 years. He has also been a consultant to the Sacramento Kings professional basketball team, and is a selected provider for the National Basketball Players Association. He served as Director of the Center for Family Counseling in Oakland California for ten years. He is a life-time member of the Association of Black Psychologist. And he is a life-time member of the USA Masters Track & Field Association. He has been in private practice in Oakland California for over 30 years.