Full Description
This book presents innovative tools for helping patients to understand their emotional schemas--such as the conviction that painful feelings are unbearable, shameful, or will last indefinitely--and develop new ways of accepting and coping with affective experience. Therapists can integrate emotional schema therapy into the treatment approaches they already use to add a vital new dimension to their work. Rich case material illustrates applications for a wide range of clinical problems; assessment guidelines and sample worksheets and forms further enhance the book's utility.
Contents
I. Emotional Schema Theory
1. The Social Construction of Emotion
2. Emotional Schema Therapy: General Considerations
3. A Model of Emotional Schemas
II. Beginning Treatment
4. Initial Assessment and Interview
5. Socialization to the Emotional Schema Model
III. Specific Interventions for Emotional Schemas
6. The Centrality of Validation
7. Comprehensibility, Duration, Control, Guilt/Shame, and Acceptance
8. Coping with Ambivalence
9. Linking Emotions to Values (and Virtues)
IV. Social Emotions and Relationships
10. Jealousy
11. Envy
12. Emotional Schemas in Couple Relationships
13.Emotional Schemas andthe Therapeutic Relationship
Conclusions
