Emotion-focused therapy : coaching clients to work through their feelings / Leslie S. Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Leslie S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Focused expressive psychotherapy.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 337 pages ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2002]

Summary:

In Emotion-Focused Therapy, Leslie S. Greenberg offers therapists an exciting new approach to help clients recognize, value, and act on their feelings. While most current books on coping emphasize mind over mood, and biological psychiatry offers psychotropic medication to regulate emotion, Greenberg proposes that, rather than controlling or avoiding emotions, clients can learn from their own bodily reactions and begin to act sensibly on them. Expressing emotion in ways that are appropriate to context is a highly complex skill, one that is rarely taught. Rich in clinical wisdom, practical guidance, and case illustrations, this book provides an empirically supported model of training clients to attain emotional wisdom.

Contents:

I. Emotional Intelligence: What It Is and How to Promote Its Development

Chapter 1. Emotions and Emotional Intelligence 3

Chapter 2. Distinguishing Among Varieties of Emotional Expression 39

Chapter 3. The Therapist as an Emotion Coach 55

Chapter 4. The Steps of Emotion Coaching 85

II. The Arriving Phase: Coaching for Emotional Awareness

Chapter 5. Arriving at a Primary Emotion 109

Chapter 6. Coaching to Evaluate Whether an Emotion Is Healthy 137

III. The Leaving Phase: Moving on by Accessing Healthy Emotions

Chapter 7. Identifying Maladaptive Emotions 171

Chapter 8. The Transforming Power of Affect: Facilitating Access to Alternate Adaptive Emotions and Needs 193

IV. Applying the Skills of Emotional Intelligence

Chapter 9. Lessons About Anger and Sadness From Psychotherapy 229

Chapter 10. Transforming Fear and Shame in Psychotherapy 241

Chapter 11. Coaching for Emotional Wisdom in Couples 255

Chapter 12. Emotions in Parenting 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-315) and indexes.

ISBN:

1557988811

OCLC:

47289456