Full Description
Emotional Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features offers a concise overview to what is distinctive about this new approach to helping clients cope with "difficult" emotions. Written by a researcher with many years of clinical experience, it provides an accessible, bitesize overview. Using the popular Distinctive Features format, this book describes 15 theoretical features and 15 practical techniques of Emotional Schema Therapy.
Emotional Schema Therapy will be a valuable source that is written for psychotherapists, clinical, health and counselling psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, and all who wish to know more about the role of emotions and emotion regulation.
Contents
Table of Contents
Part I: The Emotional Schema Model
From Cognition to Emotion
Emotions Are Multifaceted
Evolutionary Adaptation and Emotion
Social Construction of Emotion
Emotions Are an Object of Cognition
Beliefs about Emotions Reflect Cognitive Biases
Fourteen Dimensions of Emotional Schemas
How Others Respond to Our Emotions
Affective Forecasting- Predicting Future Emotions
Normalizing and Pathologizing Emotions
Metaphors of Inclusiveness of Emotions
Emotional Perfectionism
Identifying Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies
Emotional Socialization
Emotional Schemas in Therapy
Part II: Modifying Emotional Schemas
Identifying and Evaluating Theories of Cause and Change
Adaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies
Case Conceptualization
Expression of Emotion
Validation, Self-Validation and Self-Compassion
Problematic Strategies for Seeking Validation
Emotions are Universal
Guilt and Shame
Emotions are Not Permanent
Escalation and Control
Personal Empowerment
Tolerance for Ambivalence and Complexity
Relating Emotions to Values
Interpersonal Emotional Schemas
Research on Emotional Schemas
