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    2027 isEFT Conference - Bridging The Gap: Stuckness, Fragility and the Underserved Antwerpen Belgium
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  • CBT and EFT for Depression in a Routine Care Setting: A Randomized Controlled Trial
    CBT and EFT for Depression in a Routine Care Setting: A Randomized Controlled Trial Hanna Aardal
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  • You're Probably Just Anxious
    You're Probably Just Anxious TIME TO LISTEN: Healthcare professionals meet vulnerable people every day, but do they have time to truly listen? Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen, psychologist and managing director at the Norwegian Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy, argues we need a more humanistic approach to healthcare. Had someone truly listened, her own experience as a patient might have taken a different course.
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  • How Do We Handle Difficult Emotions in Children and Build Emotional Competence?
    How Do We Handle Difficult Emotions in Children and Build Emotional Competence? BUILDING EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE: What if the most helpful response to a child's distress isn't to fix it, but to stay with it? How we meet a child's difficult emotions shapes how that child learns to meet them too, writes Aksel Inge Sinding, psychologist and trainer at the Norwegian Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy (NIEFT). This is the first article in a four-part series on emotion-focused skills for emotionally aware parents.
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