Robert Elliott
Also known as Robert Elliott (psychologist)
Psychotherapy researcher who co-developed emotion-focused therapy.
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Main ideas
How clients change, Measuring outcomes, Meta-analysis
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Facilitating Emotional Change (1993, with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice), Learning Process-Experiential Psychotherapy (2004, with Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman and Leslie Greenberg), Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action (2021, with Leslie Greenberg) …
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Humanistic psychology, Person-centered therapy and 5 others
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- Robert Elliott is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapy researcher.
- With Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice he co-developed emotion-focused therapy, first called process-experiential therapy.
- He studies how clients change in humanistic-experiential therapies, including emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety.
- He runs meta-analyses of how well those therapies work.
Why it matters
- For anyone checking the evidence on humanistic and emotion-focused therapies: he is one of the researchers who measures it.
Key facts
- Current role
- Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde1
- Education
- BA, University of California, Santa Cruz (1972); PhD in clinical psychology, UCLA (1978)1
- Before Strathclyde
- University of Toledo, 1978–2006; now Professor Emeritus there1
- Known for
- Co-developing emotion-focused (process-experiential) therapy; the 1993 manual with Greenberg and Rice2
- Societies
- President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, 2000–20011
- Honours
- APA Carl Rogers Award and SPR Distinguished Career Award, both 20081
Roles
Main ideas
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How clients change1
His research follows change inside humanistic-experiential therapies, especially person-centred and emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety.
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Measuring outcomes1
He develops measures such as individualised outcome assessment and ratings of therapist competence.
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Meta-analysis1
He pools studies of humanistic-experiential therapies across depression, anxiety, psychosis and other problems.
Books to start with
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Facilitating Emotional Change (1993, with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice)2
The first manual of process-experiential therapy.
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Learning Process-Experiential Psychotherapy (2004, with Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman and Leslie Greenberg)1
A co-written book for therapists learning the approach.
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Emotion-Focused Counselling in Action (2021, with Leslie Greenberg)1
A 2021 introduction to the approach for counsellors.
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Research Methods in Clinical Psychology (with Chris Barker and Nancy Pistrang, 3rd ed.)1
A textbook on how clinical research is done.
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