Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy - Supplemental Materials

Chapter 14: Adapting Process-Experiential Therapy to Particular Client Problems

14.1. Additional Material

 


 

In Chapter 14, we describe applications of PE therapy for clients with depression, post-trauma difficulties, and borderline processes. In addition, we are familiar with the use of PE or related experiential therapies for several other client problems (see review in Elliott, Greenberg & Lietaer, 2004).  These include:

•Panic and other anxiety disorders (e.g., Shear, Pilkonis, Cloitre & Leon, 1994; Wolfe & Sigl, 1998)

            •Substance Abuse (Korman & Bolger, 2000; Miller & Rollnick, 2002)

            •Domestic violence offending (Wolfus & Bierman, 1996)

            •Schizophrenia (Tarrier et al., 1998. 2000; Teusch, 1990)

•Health-related problems (e.g., coping with cancer: Katonah, 1998; Spiegel, Bloom & Yalom, 1981; HIV: Mulder et al., 1994; psychosomatic problems: Sachse, 1998; and weight problems: Holstein,  1990)

 


 

14.1.1. References

 

            *Holstein, B.E. (August, 1990).  The use of focusing in combination with a cognitive-behavioral weight loss program.  Paper presented at American Psychological Association meeting, Boston, MA.

Katonah, D, G. (1991).  Focusing and cancer: A psychological tool as an adjunct treatment for adaptive recovery.  Unpublished dissertation, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL. [available on-line at: www.focusing.org/adjunct_treatment.html]

            Korman, L.M., & Bolger, E.A. (June 2000). The promotion of self-caring in highly distressed clients.  Poster presented at meeting of Society for Psychotherapy Research, Chicago,IL.

            Miller, W.R., & Rollnick, S.  (2002). Motivational interviewing: Preparing people for change (2nd ed.).  New York: Guilford.

            Mulder, C.L., Emmelkamp, P.M.G., Antoni, M.H., Mulder, J.W., Sandfort, T.G.M., & de Vries, M.J. (1994).  Cognitive-behavioral and experiential group psychotherapy for HIV-infected homosexual men: A comparative study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 56, 423-431.

            Shear, K.M., Pilkonis, P.A., Cloitre, M., & Leon, A.C. (1994).  Cognitive behavioral treatment compared with nonprescriptive treatment of panic disorder.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 51, 395-401.

            *Spiegel, D., Bloom, J.R., & Yalom, I. (1981).  Group support for patients with metastatic cancer.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 38, 527-533.

Tarrier, N., Yusupoff, L., Kinney, C., McCarthy, E., Gledhill, A., & Morris, J. (1998).  A randomised controlled trial of intensive cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic schizophrenia.  British Medical Journal, 317, 303-307.

            Tarrier, N., Kinney, C., McCarthy, E., Humphreys, L., Wittkowski, A., & Morris, J. (2000).  Two-year follow-up of cognitive-behavioral therapy and supportive counseling in the treatment of persistent symptoms in chronic schizophrenia.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 917-922.

            Teusch, L. (1990).  Positive effects and limitations of client-centered therapy with schizophrenic patients.   In G. Lietaer, J. Rombauts, & R. Van Balen (Eds.), Client-centered and experiential psychotherapy in the nineties (pp. 637-644).  Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.

            Wolfe, B. & Sigl, P. (1998).  Experiential psychotherapy of the anxieety disorders.  In L.S. Greenberg, J.C. Watson, & G. Lietaer (eds.), Handbook of experiential psychotherapy (pp. 272-294).  New York: Guilford.

            Wolfus, B., & Bierman, R. (1996).  An evaluation of a group treatment program for incarcerated male batterers.  International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 40, 318-333.

 


 

Materials designed to accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.

©2003 Robert Elliott, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, and Leslie Greenberg

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