In Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power, authors Leslie S. Greenberg and Rhonda N. Goldman explore the foundations of emotionally focused therapy for couples. They expand its framework to focus more intently on the development of the self and the relationship system through the promotion of self-soothing and other-soothing; to deal with unmet needs both from the client's adulthood and childhood; and to work more explicitly with emotions, specifically fear, anxiety, shame, power, joy, and love. The authors discuss the affect regulation involved in three major motivational systems central to couples therapy - attachment, identity, and attraction and clarify emotions and motivations in the dominance dimension of couples' interactions.Written with practitioners and graduate students in mind, the authors use a rich variety of case material to demonstrate how working with emotions can facilitate change in couples and, by extension, in all situations where people may be in emotional conflict with others. Greenberg and Goldman provide the tools needed to identify specific emotions and show the reader how to work with them to resolve conflict and promote bonding in couples therapy.

Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Greenberg, Leslie S.

Goldman, Rhonda N.

Mental Health

Amer Psychological Assn

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is designed to target and change unhealthy emotional processes that underlie the problems people bring to therapy with the goal of co-constructing new, healthier emotional processes.  After unfolding client presenting problems and developing an understanding of the client's emotional processing style, emotion-focused therapists engage in empathic exploration to track, access, deepen, and restructure emotion. Case formulation is conducted throughout, in the moment-by-moment process of therapy.  Case formulation in EFT involves the differential assessment of emotional states, recognizing in-session markers that prompt the use of particular tasks to help people regulate emotions and transform maladaptive emotional processes. Changes in emotional processing help clients reconstruct narratives and form new life stories.  In this demonstration, Dr. Rhonda N. Goldman works with a young woman who has unfinished business with her mother, using an empty-chair dialogue to help access the client's core emotion schemes.

Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Addressing Unfinished Business

American Psychological Association (APA)

This book presents a step-by-step process for constructing an emotion-focused case formulation, ready for use with clients. Emotion-focused therapy case formulation focuses on the client’s narrative content (the stories they tell) as well as emotional processing (how the client feels). By attending to the interaction between these two things and paying particular attention to the painful emotion underlying the presenting problem, therapists can make moment-to-moment decisions about how to proceed in therapy. Case examples apply the case formulation method to a cross-section of clinical disorders, including depression, anxiety, trauma, and eating disorders. Features: •An approach for understanding client problems and planning interventions. •Case studies representing a cross-section of clinical disorders, including depression, anxiety, trauma, and eating disorders.

Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Co-Creating Clinical Maps for Change

Greenberg PhD, Leslie S.

American Psychological Association

Six in-depth case studies - three of which result in a good outcome and three in a poor outcome - exemplify the principles of EFT and show how treatment progresses. The six clients depicted vary widely in their background, personalities, and beliefs about the roots of their depression, vividly demonstrating the utility of EFT across a range of circumstances.

Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Treatment of Depression: A Comparison of Good and Poor Outcome

Watson, Jeanne C.

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Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power

Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Addressing Unfinished Business

Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Co-Creating Clinical Maps for Change

Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Treatment of Depression: A Comparison of Good and Poor Outcome