| Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) is one of very few relationship therapy models with evidence of effectiveness in diverse cultural contexts. However, most of this research has been conducted in North American and European contexts and more work needs to be done to investigate the model’s transferability to African contexts. As part of this objective, Prof. Elmien Lesch and a team of international collaborators organised and supported the training of 80 Ugandan mental health professionals in EFCT. The training was led by Prof. Lesch and Dr Paul Guillory (Assoc. Clinical Professor, UC Berkely, US), and presented in Kampala from 4 – 7 July 2023. After this successful first EFCT externship, we followed it up with the more advanced and intensive four-day core skills training in July 2024. In this training, the number of participants was limited to 30 to enable a training space that allowed plentiful discussion and practice of EFCT principles and interventions. Read more about the workshop below: |
https://arts.sun.ac.za/files/2025/02/EFT-EAST-AFrica-news-1.pdf