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This book presents deliberate practice exercises in which students and trainees rehearse fundamental emotion-focused therapy skills until they become natural and automatic.
List of contents
Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz Acknowledgments
Part I. Overview and Instructions Chapter 1. Introduction to and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Emotion-Focused Therapy
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Emotion-Focused Therapy Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Emotion-Focused Therapy SkillsExercises for Beginner Emotion-Focused Therapy Skills Exercise 1. Therapist Self-Awareness
Exercise 2. Empathic Understanding
Exercise 3. Empathic Affirmation and Validation
Exercise 4. Exploratory Questions
Exercises for Intermediate Emotion-Focused Therapy Skills Exercise 5. Providing Treatment Rationale for Emotion-Focused Therapy
Exercise 6. Empathic Explorations
Exercise 7. Empathic Evocations
Exercise 8. Empathic Conjectures
Exercises for Advanced Emotion-Focused Therapy Skills Exercise 9. Staying in Contact in the Face of Intense Affect
Exercise 10. Self-Disclosure
Exercise 11. Marker Recognition and Chair Work Task Setup
Exercise 12. Addressing Ruptures and Facilitating Repair
Comprehensive Exercises Exercise 13. Annotated Emotion-Focused Therapy Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 14. Mock Emotion-Focused Therapy Sessions
Part III. Strategies for Enhancing the Deliberate Practice Exercises Chapter 3. How to Get the Most Out of Deliberate Practice: Additional Guidance for Trainers and Trainees
Appendix A. Difficulty Assessments and Adjustments
Appendix B. Distinguishing Between Empathic Responses
Appendix C. Sample Emotion-Focused Therapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Rhonda N. Goldman, Alexandre Vaz, and Tony Rousmaniere
Summary
Presents deliberate practice exercises to help students, trainees, and clinicians address common challenges that arise in emotion-focused therapy. Deliberate practice is a rigorous training method that involves repeated behavioural rehearsal and stimulation-based learning therapy techniques.
