Main description:

Emotional Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features offers a concise overview to what is distinctive about this new approach to helping clients cope with "difficult" emotions. Written by a researcher with many years of clinical experience, it provides an accessible, bitesize overview. Using the popular Distinctive Features format, this book describes 15 theoretical features and 15 practical techniques of Emotional Schema Therapy.

Emotional Schema Therapy will be a valuable source that is written for psychotherapists, clinical, health and counselling psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, and all who wish to know more about the role of emotions and emotion regulation.

Contents:

Table of Contents

Part I: The Emotional Schema Model

From Cognition to Emotion

Emotions Are Multifaceted

Evolutionary Adaptation and Emotion

Social Construction of Emotion

Emotions Are an Object of Cognition

Beliefs about Emotions Reflect Cognitive Biases

Fourteen Dimensions of Emotional Schemas

How Others Respond to Our Emotions

Affective Forecasting- Predicting Future Emotions

Normalizing and Pathologizing Emotions

Metaphors of Inclusiveness of Emotions

Emotional Perfectionism

Identifying Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies

Emotional Socialization

Emotional Schemas in Therapy
Part II: Modifying Emotional Schemas

Identifying and Evaluating Theories of Cause and Change

Adaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies

Case Conceptualization

Expression of Emotion

Validation, Self-Validation and Self-Compassion

Problematic Strategies for Seeking Validation

Emotions are Universal

Guilt and Shame

Emotions are Not Permanent

Escalation and Control

Personal Empowerment

Tolerance for Ambivalence and Complexity

Relating Emotions to Values

Interpersonal Emotional Schemas

Research on Emotional Schemas