7.5.1. Exercise: Analyze
Empathy Tracks
In order
to develop your understanding of the different empathy tracks, read the case
example. Rebecca: “So the fear is like a thing”, which contains a
classic example of the General Empathic Exploration task, the “Fear-thing”
significant event referred to in Chapter 2 of Learning Process-Experiential
Psychotherapy. You can
also study this example in order to identify the different client stages and
therapist activities described in Empathy Tracks and Typical Therapist Response and in Chapter 7 of the book.
Materials designed to
accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The
Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.
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