Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Clinical Guide for Transforming Emotional Pain

This empirically grounded, clinical guide for transdiagnostic emotion-focused therapy describes techniques used to transform the deep core emotional vulnerability—sadness, loneliness, shame, and fear—that underlies the diagnostic clusters of depression, anxiety, and related disorders. Emotion-Focused Therapy is an effective transdiagnostic treatment for the common symptoms that underlie depression, anxiety, and other related disorders. This book conceptualizes Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) as a transdiagnostic approach for treating a variety of mental health problems by accessing and transforming the underlying vulnerability of the core emotional pain and, in light of this, examining clusters of symptoms such as anxiety.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 301 pages
Publication date: 19 October 2021
Publisher: American Psychological Association

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a clinically grounded approach that aims to transform the deep-seated emotional vulnerability underlying various diagnostic clusters, including depression, anxiety, and related disorders. Given the high comorbidity of mental health symptoms, transdiagnostic treatments have gained increasing importance in recent years. This book conceptualizes EFT as a transdiagnostic approach that can effectively address a wide range of mental health problems by accessing and transforming the core emotional pain that underlies these symptoms.

The authors of this book employ a modular approach, which has been developed over a decade through extensive research. They target both symptom-level presentations and the underlying emotional vulnerability that manifests in depression, anxiety, and other related disorders. This integrated approach incorporates a variety of symptom-level EFT tasks, including those aimed at regulating emotional distress, as well as those specifically focused on self-worrying, rumination, perfectionism, and other discrete symptoms.

Through richly detailed session transcripts, the authors illustrate strategies that target clusters of symptoms, such as two-chair dialogues and self-interruption. These techniques are designed to help clients access their emotional vulnerability, facilitate emotional regulation, guide emotional transformation processes, and engage in healthy interpersonal experiences.

By providing mental health professionals with this empirically supported and clinically effective guide, Emotion-Focused Therapy enables them to effectively assist their clients in overcoming the challenges posed by emotional vulnerability and promoting overall well-being.

Weight: 440g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781433836633