Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy - Supplemental Materials

Chapter 7: Empathy and Exploration: The Core of Process-Experiential Therapy

7.2.2. Outline: Empathy Tasks: Markers, Interventions, Resolutions


 

Task Marker

Intervention

End State

Problem-Relevant Experience (e.g., interesting, troubling, intense, puzzling)

Empathic Exploration

Clear marker, or new meaning explicated

Vulnerability (Painful emotion related to self)

Empathic Affirmation

Self-affirmation (feels understood, hopeful, stronger)

 


 

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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