This project will develop training opportunities and good practice guides for EFT trainers and clinical supervisors, as well as a digital platform to support EFT training, supervision and practice in different countries. Kramer & Pascual-Leone, 2016 Peluso & Freund, 2018). EFT involves a style that combines both following and guiding a client’s experiential process, and emphasises both relationship and intervention skills. It is inspired by both humanistic and gestalt traditions in psychology. Within the psychological treatments available for these emotional disorders, transdiagnostic treatments, in particular, constitute a promising and innovative approach to the treatment of emotional disorders, based on the fact that many of these problems share common psychopathological characteristics, etiology and maintenance mechanisms.Įmotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is not only an innovative and effective treatment for emotional disorders (Elliott et al., 2002, 2013, 2021 Timulak & Keogh, 2020), but also promotes the change of deep and maladaptive emotional processes in parallel with the change of symptoms, gathering strong empirical evidence at the biological, psychological and clinical level (e.g. Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) is an empirically-supported, evidence-based treatment developed over many decades. Besides depression, other emotional problems such as anxiety, trauma/stress related and obsessive-compulsive disorders also have high prevalence, comorbidity and tendency to develop into chronic conditions, representing significant challenges to national health systems. Recent evidences also show that the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have taken a significant toll in the mental health of Europeans (e.g. In particular, depression alone has been considered an epidemic due to its social and financial impact, high rates of relapse and increasing rates in the elderly and people from lower socioeconomic status (Freeman et al., 2016 Vieira & Cunha, 2019). the Pact for Mental Health and Wellbeing – Wahlbeck, 2010, and a European Framework for Action on Mental Health and Wellbeing – European Commission, 2016 Wykes, et al., 2015). In the last decade, European countries have been aware of the global burden of disease associated to mental health problems, leading to European commitments to address these issues (e.g.

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