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Person-Centred and Experiential Therapies Work provides a
comprehensive, systematic and accessible review of the
evidence-base for the approach and the methods and measures by
which it can be evaluated. It gives clear evidence for the
effectiveness of person-centred and experiential therapies, and is
an essential resource for students and practitioners who want to
know more about the empirical support for their work, and to
promote it with confidence.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) - characterized by near-constant
worry that often coincides with intense feelings of shame and
despair - is a highly treatment-resistant disorder, with clients
often relapsing after making some progress. Master therapists
Jeanne Watson and Leslie Greenberg argue, however, that
emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is uniquely capable of targeting the
maladaptive emotional schemes that underlie GAD and helping clients
maintain lasting, positive change. In this practical guide, Watson
and Greenberg teach mental health practitioners how to employ EFT
methods in their work with GAD clients. The authors first review
EFT's conceptualization of GAD, emphasizing the key role that
emotion plays in pervasive anxiety. They then translate those
foundational principles into detailed techniques and strategies as
they walk readers through the EFT process, beginning with the
establishment of a healing therapeutic relationship. Chapters
review different stages of EFT, describing specific therapeutic
exercises, such as empty-chair and two-chair tasks, that allow
clients to vocalize and directly address their deep-rooted
emotional pain, anxieties, and relational injuries with significant
others. Through this work, clients eventually learn to self-soothe
and transform their maladaptive coping mechanisms into healthier
ones. Sample client-therapist dialogues demonstrate how these EFT
techniques can be applied in actual practice.
This book examines how psychotherapists can be appropriately
responsive to clients' unique needs across a variety of therapeutic
approaches by saying or doing the right thing at the right time.
Expert contributors from a variety of theoretical orientations
synthesize key research and identify common factors across the
field of psychology as well as unique contributions that each
approach offers. Chapters first explore important broad concepts
and strategies, including therapists attuning to their clients'
needs, examining the importance of the therapeutic relationship,
the role clinicians play as attachment figures for their clients,
and repairing ruptures in the working alliance. Building from this
foundation, chapters then explore specific types of therapy in
detail, including psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioral
therapy, emotion-focused therapy, control mastery theory, narrative
therapy, relationship-focused therapy for LGBTQ individuals and
their nonaccepting caregivers, and integrative therapies. They
review strategies for responding to specific client markers,
cultural diversity considerations, guidance for training and
supervision, and directions for future research. Clinical case
examples enrich the material, demonstrating the dos and do nots of
responsiveness with diverse clients.
Integrating the work of leading client-centered, gestalt,
interpersonal, focusing, and process-oriented therapists, "
Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy" covers both conceptual
foundations and current treatment applications. Contributors
present well-articulated approaches to treating depression, PTSD,
anxiety, and other problems, emphasizing the need to work with the
client's own moment-by-moment experience of disturbing states and
processes. The volume delineates a variety of experiential
methods--from working with clients to symbolize bodily felt sense,
evoke memories, and express intense feelings, to helping them
reflect on their experience, maintain gains from session to
session, and create new meanings for themselves. The role of the
therapist's relational stance in promoting particular emotional
processes is also examined, and newly developed models of
experiential diagnosis and case formulation are described.
Emotional expression is the link between internal experience and
the outside world. It is intimately connected to who we are, how we
feel, and how we relate to others. In daily life, expression
enables people to communicate with each other and influence
relationships; in psychotherapy, it provides important information
about how clients are feeling and how they are relating to the
therapist. This lucid volume examines expressions of such feelings
as love, anger, and sadness, and highlights the individual and
interpersonal processes that shape emotional behavior. It offers a
lively and comprehensive discussion of the role of emotional
expression and nonexpression in individual adaptation, social
interaction, and therapeutic process. Drawing upon extensive theory
and research, the authors provide coherent guidelines to help
clinicians, researchers, and students identify, conceptualize, and
treat problems in emotional behavior. They show that expression and
nonexpression come in many different forms, with a wide range of
personal and relational consequences. The effects of expressing
one's feelings depend on what is expressed, to whom, in what way,
and in what context. Expression can lead to greater self-knowledge,
enhanced coping, and fuller intimacy, but it can also result in
embarrassment, misunderstanding, or rejection. Conversely,
nonexpression can involve a frustrating lack of opportunity to
express, or problems in accessing or articulating feelings, but it
can also reflect cultural values or effective coping efforts.
Through vivid clinical examples, the authors illuminate a range of
problems related to both expression and nonexpression, and provide
insight into how these can be addressed in individual and couple
therapy. This practical and clearly written guide is an important
resource for teachers, students, and researchers of clinical,
counseling, social, personality, and health psychology, as well as
practicing counselors and psychotherapists. It will also serve as a
text in advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses on
emotion and interpersonal communication, and in graduate-level
counseling and psychotherapy seminars.
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