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Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy, Second Edition
Updates a classic text on emotion-focused therapy with over 20 years of research and theory.
On Becoming Emotion Focused
In this book, psychotherapy pioneer Les Greenberg draws connections between his early life and the unique approach to therapy he later developed.
Shame and Anger in Psychotherapy
This book discusses shame and anger, their relationship with one another, and how to work with each of them to produce therapeutic change.
Shame and Anger in Therapy
Dr. Leslie Greenberg uses emotion-focused therapy over the span of two separate sessions to guide a client toward processing deep-seated emotions.
Therapeutic Presence, Second Edition
This new edition offers practical exercises and a training program for cultivating presence in students and trainees.
Emotion-Focused Therapy, Second Edition
Newly published in paperback, this title presents a comprehensive overview of emotion-focused therapy (EFT)—a treatment that helps clients identify, experience, accept, explore, interpret, transform, and flexibly manage their emotions. This second edition incorporates the latest theory and research on EFT.
Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Depression Across Three Age Cohorts [PDF]
Recommendations for the treatment of depressive disorders (including major depression, subsyndromal depression, and persistent depressive disorder). This guideline addresses three developmental cohorts: children and adolescents; general adults; and older adults (ages 60 and over).
Changing Emotion With Emotion
This book presents principles and methods for working with emotion in psychotherapy to address the core maladaptive processes that cause anxiety, depression, and other common clinical disorders.
Forgiveness and Letting Go in Emotion-Focused Therapy
This book shows how forgiveness oriented Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps individuals and couples process distressing negative emotions and transform them.
Working With Emotion in Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavior, and Emotion-Focused Psychotherapy
This volume investigates the role of emotion in the development and maintenance of psychological problems, and in effecting psychological change.
Clinical Handbook of Emotion-Focused Therapy
This book describes how practitioners of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) can help clients access their own emotions, engage emotions productively, and create narratives to make sense of their experiences.
Working With Emotion in Psychodynamic Therapy
This DVD discusses the mainstream psychodynamic and psychoanalytic model of emotion as well as that of mentalization-based therapy, a recent approach within this tradition.
Working With Emotion in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This DVD explores the ways that cognitive behavioral therapy works with emotion.
Comparing Models of Emotion in Therapy
In this DVD the guest experts discuss the common as well as differentiating factors across their respective approaches to emotion in an effort to understand both why such different models developed and whether there is the potential for a shared model.
Working With Emotion in Emotion-Focused Therapy
This DVD discusses how emotion-focused therapy looks beyond a client's symptomatic behavior to the role that emotion plays in its formation.
Emotion-Focused Therapy for Generalized Anxiety
This practical guide walks mental health practitioners through the conception and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder from an emotion-focused therapy perspective. Foundational concepts and therapeutic exercises are described alongside illustrative case dialogues.
Emotion-Focused Therapy, Revised Edition
Emotion-Focused Therapy provides an introduction to the theory, history, research, and practice of this emotion-centered, humanistic approach to psychotherapy.
Supervision Essentials for Emotion-Focused Therapy
This book introduces a model of supervision that is founded on the same fundamental principles as emotion-focused therapy therapy: a safe supervisory alliance and relationship, an agreed-upon focus for each supervision session, and the identification of appropriate task markers.
Emotion-Focused Therapy Supervision
This DVD demonstrates and discusses how to train and teach therapists using the emotion-focused approach to clinical supervision.
Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Co-Creating Clinical Maps for Change
This book presents a step-by-step process for constructing an emotion-focused case formulation which focuses on the client's narrative content (the stories they tell) as well as emotional processing (how the client feels).
Exploring Three Approaches to Psychotherapy
This book gives readers in-depth analysis of what occurs in cognitive, emotion-focused, and psychoanalytic therapy orientations.
Three Approaches to Psychotherapy With a Female Client: The Next Generation
In this DVD, three leading therapists demonstrate three different therapeutic orientations with a single female client.
Three Approaches to Psychotherapy With a Male Client: The Next Generation
In this DVD, three leading therapists demonstrate three different therapeutic orientations with a single male client.
Working With Narrative in Emotion-Focused Therapy
The authors present a groundbreaking, empirically based model that integrates working with narrative and emotion processes in emotion-focused therapy (EFT).
Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power
This book expands the framework of emotionally focused therapy for couples 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.