Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST) is a new integrative treatment for recurrent depression and co-occurring personality problems. The EST has been successfully implemented and run as group therapy over a period of three years (2015-2018) at an outpatient unit of the Akershus University Hospital in Norway. You can read more about the work on the development […]
The Multidimensional Model of Change – a new way of structuring psychotherapy
Multidimensional Model of Change (the MMC) is a meta-theoretical framework for structuring psychotherapy. The Model has been used as a basis for the development of an integrative group treatment for depression, called Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST). The EST has been implemented and successfully run by our team at the Akershus University Hospital, the major Norwegian […]
Rat race and the twilight of psychotherapy
This is the second in the series of introductory articles on the Multidimensional Model of Change and Emotional Safeness Therapy (a modular group treatment for recurrent depression, successfully implemented and run at the Akershus University Hospital in 2015-2018). In order to understand a broader context of the development of Multidimensional Model of Change, it’s useful […]
EST Project – Development of Multidimensional Model of Change and Emotional Safeness Therapy
The article discusses the organizational background of the EST Project, which led to the development of Multidimensional Model of Change (MMC) and Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST). Multidimensional Model of Change was initially thought as a metatheoretical framework for the integration of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). The model has been […]