Clinical Handbook of Emotion-focused Therapy

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.

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.

Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto. He has authored and coauthored the major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment, including the original books Emotion in Psychotherapy (1986) and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988) and, more recently, Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power (2008), Emotion-Focused Therapy: Theory and Practice (2010), Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy (2015), and Emotion-Focused Therapy for Generalized Anxiety (2017). He has received the Distinguished Research Career award of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research as well as the American Psychology Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research. He conducts a private practice and trains people in emotion-focused approaches.

Rhonda N. Goldman, PhD, is a professor and a Clinical Psychology faculty member at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology (ISPP) at Argosy University, Schaumburg and an affiliate psychotherapist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University where she practices emotion-focused therapy (EFT) for both individuals and couples. Dr. Goldman received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from York University in Toronto, Canada. She teaches psychotherapy and conducts research on EFT for couples, emotional processes, empathy, vulnerability, depression, and self-soothing at ISPP. She is the 2011 recipient of the Carmi Harari Early Career Award from the Society of Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. She is past-president of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration and a cofounding board member of the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy. Dr. Goldman travels internationally, conducting trainings and workshops in EFT for both individuals and couples.

Contributors
Preface
I. Introduction to Emotion-Focused Therapy
Chapter 1. History and Overview of Emotion-Focused Therapy
Rhonda N. Goldman
Chapter 2. Theory of Functioning in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Leslie S. Greenberg
Chapter 3. Theory of Practice of Emotion-Focused Therapy
Leslie S. Greenberg and Rhonda N. Goldman
II. Integrating Research and Practice in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Chapter 4. Clinical Implications of Research on Emotion-Focused Therapy
Ladislav Timulak, Shigeru Iwakabe, and Robert Elliott
Chapter 5. Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therap
Jeanne Watson
Chapter 6. Therapeutic Presence: The Foundation for Effective Emotion-Focused Therapy
Shari M. Geller
Chapter 7. How Clients “Change Emotion With Emotion”: Sequences in Emotional Processing and Their Clinical Implications
Antonio Pascual-Leone and Ueli Kramer
Chapter 8. Relating Process to Outcome in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Alberta E. Pos and Bryan H. Choi
Chapter 9. Facilitating Optimal Emotional Processing
Imke R. Herrmann and Lars Auszra
Chapter 10. Task Analyses of Emotional Change
Jason M. Sharbanee, Rhonda N. Goldman, and Leslie S. Greenberg
Chapter 11. Narrative Change Processes and Client Treatment Outcomes in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Lynne Angus, Tali Boritz, Inês Mendes, and Miguel M. Gonçalves
Chapter 12. Emotion Coaching in Action: Experiential Teaching,
Homework, and Consolidating Change
Serine H. Warwar and Jennifer Ellison
III. Clinical Practice of Emotion-Focused Therapy With Specific Client Populations
Chapter 13. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression.
João Salgado, Carla Cunha, and Marina Monteiro
Chapter 14. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Jeanne Watson, Ladislav Timulak, and Leslie S. Greenberg
Chapter 15. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Social Anxiety
Robert Elliott and Ben Shahar
Chapter 16. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Complex Interpersonal Trauma
Ula Khayyat-Abuaita and Sandra Paivio
Chapter 17. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Personality Disorders
Alberta E. Pos and Danielle A. Paolone
Chapter 18. Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for Eating Disorders
Joanne Dolhanty and Adele Lafrance
Chapter 19. Integrating Feminist-Multicultural Perspectives Into Emotion-Focused Therapy
Heidi M. Levitt, William J. Whelton, and Shigeru Iwakabe
IV. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples
Chapter 20. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples
Catalina Woldarsky Meneses and Jacqueline M. McKinnon
Chapter 21. Integrating Individual Tasks Into Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples
Charles Edwards and Jamie Levin-Edwards
Chapter 22. Mastering the Interventions of Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples
Brent Bradley
V. Conclusions
Chapter 23. Enduring Themes and Future Developments in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Rhonda N. Goldman and Leslie S. Greenberg
Index
About the Editors