Emotion-focused therapy for complex trauma
Subtitle: an integrative approach
By: Sandra C. Paivio, Antonio Pascual-Leone
Contributors: Pascual-Leone, Antonio; American Psychological Association
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781433807251
Description: "Psychotherapy clients with histories of childhood abuse and complex relational trauma are ubiquitous, and they have notoriously high dropout rates. Many of these clients have been unable to heal past emotional injuries and have difficulty handling exposure-based therapies, which usually are not designed for attachment-related problems. Successful therapy requires helping clients access and explore painful feelings in order to modify maladaptive emotions. Emotion-focused therapy for trauma (EFTT) is the only trauma therapy that is based on an empirically verified model that identifies steps in the process of resolving past relational issues." "In this book, Paivio and Pascual-Leone plumb 15 years of research involving clinical trials, observation and analysis of therapy sessions, as well as their own extensive clinical experience, to describe precisely how EFTT works to heal complex trauma. The authors focus on the typical progression of EFTT, beginning with cultivating the therapeutic alliance, through modifying self-concept, resolution of attachment injuries, and termination." "Throughout, the authors make comparisons with other treatment approaches and provide clinical examples of different kinds of emotion and emotional processing difficulties. This book will appeal to clinicians and researchers alike and is particularly suitable for use in outpatient trauma clinics and graduate programs that emphasize service and training in empirically supported treatments."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trauma and its effects; title: Emotion-focused therapy for trauma treatment model; title: Emotion; title: Experiencing; title: Cultivating the alliance; title: Promoting experience; title: The imaginal confrontation procedure; title: Reducing, fear, anxiety, and avoidance; title: Transforming, guilt, shame, and self-blame; title: Resolution through anger; title: Resolution through sadness and grief; title: Termination.