Clinical Handbook of Emotion-Focused Therapy

1. History and Overview of Emotion-Focused Therapy
2. Theory of Functioning in Emotion-Focused Therapy
3. Theory of Practice of Emotion-Foc used Therapy
4. Clinical Implications of Research on Emotion-Focused Therapy
5. Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therapy
6. Therapeutic Presence: The Foundat ion for Effective Emotion-Foc used Therapy
7. How Clients “Change Emotion With Emotion”: Sequences in Emotional Processing and Their Clinical Implicat ions
8. Relating Process to Outcome in Emotion-Focused Therapy
9. Facilitating Optimal Emotional Processing
10. Task Analyses of Emotional Change
11. Narrat ive Change Processes and Client Treatment Outcomes in Emotion-Focused Therapy
12. Emotion Coaching in Action: Experiential Teaching, Homework, and Consolidating Change
13. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression
14. Emotion-Foc used Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
15. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety
16. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Complex Interpersonal Trauma
17. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Personality Disorders
18. Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for Eat ing Disorders
19. Integrating Feminist-Multic ult ural Perspectives Into Emotion-Foc used Therapy
20. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples
21. Integrating Individual Tasks Into Emotion-Focuse d Therapy for Couples
22. Mastering the Interventions of Emotion-Focuse d Therapy for Couples
23. Enduring Themes and Future Developments in Emotion-Focused Therapy

Through Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), clients learn to rule their emotions, instead of letting their emotions rule them. With guidance from a skilled EFT therapist to help them identify, experience, accept, and tolerate difficult emotions, people can learn to regulate, explore, make sense of, transform, and flexibly manage their emotions. As a result, they become more skilled in responding adaptively to situations as they arise.   EFT therapists help individuals and couples engage in productive emotional processing. They also offer methods to help clients become aware of their emotional needs. In this book readers will learn to: conceptualize clients’ core emotions in order to form a focus of therapy guide clients through the process of emotional change, and structure therapy in an ongoing fashion, recognize key emotional markers, and facilitate the tasks needed to move to the next phase. This handbook offers a comprehensive tour of EFT research and applications for all common mental health issues including depression, anxiety, interpersonal trauma, personality disorders, and eating disorders.