Emotion-Focused Therapy in Practice

Working With Grief and Abandonment
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4338-1559-1
Verlag: American Psychological Association

Sonstiges, Englisch, DVD-ROM

Reihe: Specific Treatments for Specific Populations Video Series

In Emotion-Focused Therapy in Practice, Jeanne C. Watson demonstrates her approach to psychotherapy, which helps to facilitate change in clients' psychological, emotional, and interpersonal functioning.

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT), the process-experiential approach, is rooted in experiential psychotherapy and emphasises the role of ""experiencing"" in the change process. The primary goals of this approach are to promote more effective emotional processing and affect regulation, as well as enhanced differentiation of self and other to increase autonomy and self-care in relationships, and to engender more positive treatment of self.

In EFT, the therapeutic relationship is seen as central to the change process — not only as a facilitator of the development of a positive working alliance, but also as an active ingredient of change.

This programme features Dr. Watson's work with a young woman who has experienced abandonment and trauma. Dr. Watson demonstrates maximal responsiveness to the client — establishing empathy, acceptance, genuineness, and prizing — to help the client feel safe and to begin to explore her emotional experience and conceptualise her grief.

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Jeanne C. Watson, PhD, CPsych, is a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto in Canada. A major exponent of humanistic–experiential approaches, she has contributed to the development of emotion-focused psychotherapy, the process-experiential approach.

Dr. Watson is a research–clinician who researches psychotherapy process and outcome in emotion-focused psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural psychotherapy in the treatment of depression. In 2002, she received the Outstanding Early Achievement Award from the International Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), and was recently appointed General Vice-President of SPR in October 2012.

Dr. Watson has coauthored and edited seven books on psychotherapy, including Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change (2003); Expressing Emotion: Myths, Realities and Therapeutic Strategies (1999); Process-Experiential Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Depression (2005); and Case Studies in Emotion-Focused Treatment of Depression: A Comparison of Good and Poor Outcome (2007); as well as 60 articles and chapters. Dr. Watson does training in emotion-focused psychotherapy in Europe and North America and maintains a part-time practice in Toronto, Canada.