Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals is an essential guide that integrates emotionally focused therapy (EFT) with cultural humility. It provides a pathbreaking, evidence-based model of couples work that reinforces the bond between partners in the face of race-based distress. Guillory explores and brings a deep understanding of the legacy of racial trauma and the cultural strengths of African American couples by using real-life case studies.
Key Features
- Integrates emotionally focused therapy (EFT) with cultural humility.
- Evidence-based model of couples work.
- Focuses on key clinical issues such as communication problems, anxiety, infidelity, depression, and porn.
- Includes real-life case studies enhanced by a consultation with EFT master therapist Sue Johnson.
- Essential text for students and mental health professionals.
Additional Information
The book will also appeal to psychologists, mental health workers, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and religious leaders.