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Book SynopsisTransforming Generalized Anxiety: An Emotion Focused Approach examines an approach to treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) which attempts to uncover the deeper, underlying emotional experiences that clients are afraid of. It also demonstrates how these painful experiences can be transformed in therapy into a form of emotional resilience by generating experiences of self-compassion and healthy, boundary setting, protective anger.
Though most of the literature on treating GAD is dominated by Cognitive Behavior Therapy, this book presents emotion-focused therapy as an alternative treatment of this condition. The emotional resilience this particular approach instils serves as a resource when encountering triggers of emotional vulnerability, but also decreases the client's need to avoid hitherto feared triggers and the emotional experiences they bring. Developed in a series of research studies, and illustrated with reference to case examples, this book offers a prac
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‘Take this journey into the dense jungle of clients’ experience of GAD. This wonderful book on how to work therapeutically with the painful emotions of these clients provides a virtual feast of theory, practice, bottom up research and case examples. If you want to deepen your practice with GAD clients you must not miss reading this book. Good for beginners and experienced clinicians alike.’
Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada
‘Building on Timulak’s previous book, Transforming Emotional Pain in Psychotherapy, this book illuminates the extension of Emotion-Focused Therapy to Generalized Anxiety with a high level of clarity and precision, while also staying true to humanistic therapy values and the clinical complexities of a challenging client population. Timulak and McElvaney manage to encompass the different main threads that have emerged in EFT over the past 25 years, while also providing an up-to-date presentation of the latest developments. It is a very impressive achievement.’
Robert Elliott, Ph.D., Professor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
‘This volume is the innovative development of emotion-focused therapy and may ignite a paradigm shift in the understanding and treatment of GAD that has long been dominated by cognitive-behavioral therapy. What is unique about this book and Timulak and McElvaney’s approach is that every aspect of their treatment model is supported by research findings, which validate its effectiveness and delineate a conceptual framework for tracking client progress to determine when and how to intervene in order to best facilitate emotional transformation…’
Shigeru Iwakabe, PhD, Associate Professor, Human Science Division, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Acknowledgments – page 4
Chapter 1 Introduction – page 6
Part 1 – Theoretical Underpinnings
Chapter 2 Generalised Anxiety Disorder – page 17
Chapter 3 Emotion-Focused Therapy – page 48
Chapter 4 Emotion-Focused Conceptualisation of GAD – Transformation Model – page 72
Part 2 – Building Blocks of Delivering EFT for GAD
Chapter 5 Therapeutic Relationship Promoting Emotional Transformation – page 104
Chapter 6 Conceptualising GAD through the Feared Core Pain – page 119
Chapter 7 Overcoming Avoidance – Working with Worry – page 141
Part 3 – Transformative Work
Chapter 8 Accessing and Transforming Core Emotional Pain – page 178
Part 4 – Practicalities of Delivering EFT for GAD
Chapter 9 Adapting Therapeutic Strategy – page 251
Chapter 10 Incorporating EFT in Therapist’s Repertoire – page 277
References – page 286
