Emotion-Focused Therapy (2011)
Also known as Emotion-Focused Therapy (Greenberg, 2011), Emotion-Focused Therapy (2011), Emotion-Focused Therapy, Revised Edition, Emotion-Focused Therapy (Theories of Psychotherapy)
Les Greenberg's short introduction to emotion-focused therapy in APA's theories series
At a glance
What it argues
Emotions can help people change
How it is organized
History, Theory, The therapy process …
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Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings, Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy, Emotion-focused therapy
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Leslie Greenberg, Emotion-focused therapy and Humanistic psychology
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- A short book in APA's Theories of Psychotherapy series, written by the approach's developer.
- It introduces emotion-focused therapy as a feeling-centered, humanistic approach.
- Its core claim: emotions have an adaptive potential that, once activated, helps clients change.
- It runs through the approach's history, theory, therapy process and evaluation.
Why it matters
- For a reader who wants the whole approach in one short sitting before tackling the longer manuals.
- The series is built to be read alongside APA's therapy demonstration videos.
Key facts
- Author
- Leslie S. Greenberg1
- Published
- 2011; revised edition 20171
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association2
- Series
- Theories of Psychotherapy1
- ISBN
- 9781433808579 (2011); 9781433826306 (revised edition)1
- Pages
- xii, 190 (revised edition)3
- Contents
- Introduction, History, Theory, The therapy process, Evaluation, Future developments (revised edition)3
What it argues
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Emotions can help people change2
Emotion-focused therapy stresses awareness, acceptance and understanding of emotion, and holds that emotions have an adaptive potential which, activated, helps clients change.
How it is organized
Read next
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Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings
Greenberg's longer, example-rich guide.
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Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy
The detailed training text on tasks and markers.
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The approach page here.
Connections
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