Leslie S. Greenberg, Ph.D. EmotionFocused （莱斯利·s·格林伯格博士EmotionFocused）.pdfVIP

Leslie S. Greenberg, Ph.D. Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Clinical Synthesis Abstract: A summary of an emotion-focused approach to therapy (EFT) and its research base is presented. In this view, emotion is seen as foundational in the construction of the self and is a key determinant of self-organization. People, as well as simply having emotion, also live in a constant process of making sense of their emotions. In EFT, distinctions between different types of emotion provide therapists with a map for differential intervention. Six major empirically supported principles of emotion processing guide therapist interventions and serve as the goals of treatment. A case ex- ample illustrates how the principles of EFT helped a patient overcome her core maladaptive shame and basic insecurity in a relatively brief treatment of depression. Emotion-focused treatment was developed as an CC or CBT treatment, in promoting more change empirically informed approach to the practice of in symptoms than the CC treatment, and highly psychotherapy grounded in contemporary psycho- effective in preventing relapse (77% nonrelapse) logical theories of functioning. Emotion-focused (13). EFT also has been found to be effective in therapy (EFT) was developed by my colleagues and treating abuse (14), resolving interpersonal prob- I in the 1980s out of empirical studies of the process lems, and promoting forgiveness (15, 16). Emo- of change (1–6) a