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 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 and implementation of […]
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 […]
EST Project – Development of Multidimensional Model of Change and Emotional Safeness Therapy
The article delves into the organizational origins of the EST Project, which ultimately led to the creation of the Multidimensional Model of Change (MMC) and Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST). Initially conceived as a metatheoretical framework, the Multidimensional Model of Change aimed to integrate various psychotherapeutic approaches into a single, well-structured intervention. This model was utilized […]