Practice Time! Ep. 1: EFT Empathic Understanding

Skill Criteria for Empathic Understanding:
1. Convey an accurate sense of the client's main concern - a felt sense or meaning in what the client is expressing.
2. Stay present in the moment.
3. Avoid asking questions, making suggestions, or interpreting the client's experience.
4. Make sure to match tone of voice to client's expressed emotion (i.e., if client's voice is anguished and sad, use a soft tone; if the client is angry, match your voice with solidity and firmness, although not loud and angry).

Exercise from the book "Deliberate Practice in Emotion Focused Therapy", by Rhonda Goldman, Alexandre Vaz and Tony Rousmaniere: https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/delibe...

Practice Time is a web series hosted by Amy DeSmidt and Jamie Manser showcasing authentic deliberate practice sessions of clinical skills from the book series "The Essentials of Deliberate Practice" (APA Books), edited by Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz.

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