This book describes an evidence-based, short-term individual therapy that is highly effective in treating clients with trauma, through its emphasis on both narrative and emotion processes. Because dropout rates and noncompliance with exposure-based procedures are notoriously high in trauma therapies, effective treatment options are essential. Emotion-Focused Therapy forTrauma (EFTT) is an evidence-based, short-term individual therapy that has proven highly effective in treating clients with trauma through its emphasis on both narrative and emotion processes. A fundamental assumption underlying most trauma therapies, including EFTT, is that recovery requires the client to engage emotionally with trauma memories to achieve better affect regulation and self-understanding. EFTT draws upon storytelling as a fundamental aspect of the human experience that permits this kind of engagement with trauma memories, promoting a sense of continuity and self-coherence, and brin
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Theory and Research
Chapter 1: The Nature of Complex Trauma
Chapter 2: The Unique Contributions of EFTT
Chapter 3: Why Client Storytelling Matters
Chapter 4: A Narrative-Informed Approach to EFTT
Part II: Practice
Chapter 5: Assessing Narrative-Emotion Processes in EFTT
Chapter 6: Principles of Intervention With Narrative-Emotion Processes
Chapter 7: Cultivating the Alliance: Early-Phase EFTT
Chapter 8: Two Intensive Case Analyses: Early-Phase EFTT
Chapter 9: Promoting Self-Development: Middle-Phase EFTT
Chapter 10: Two Intensive Case Analyses: Middle-Phase EFTT
Chapter 11: Resolving Issues With Perpetrators and New Story Outcomes: Late-Phase EFTT
Chapter12: Two Intensive Case Analyses: Late-Phase EFTT
Afterword: Process-Diagnosis and Marker-Guided Intervention
Appendix: Abbreviated Degree of Resolution Scale
Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors
