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Book SynopsisThis 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. Given the high comorbidity of mental health symptoms and our growing understanding of psychopathology, transdiagnostic treatments are becoming more and more common. 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.
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Table of ContentsForeword—Leslie S. Greenberg
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rationale for Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy
Part I . Theoretical Underpinnings Chapter 1. Emotional Vulnerability: The Focus of Transdiagnostic Therapy
Chapter 2. Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Brief Overview of Theory and Practice
Chapter 3. Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Conceptualization
Part II. Building Blocks of Delivering Transdiagnostic Emotion-Focused Therapy Chapter 4. Offering a Compassionate and Validating Relationship
Chapter 5. Using Transdiagnostic Case Conceptualization
Chapter 6. Modulating Emotional Dysregulation
Chapter 7. Overcoming Avoidance
Chapter 8. Dealing With Anxiety and Other Common Symptoms
Chapter 9. Accessing and Transforming Core Emotional Pain
Chapter 10. Adapting Therapeutic Strategy and Consolidating Changes
References
Index
About the Authors
