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List of contents
Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz
Acknowledgments
Part I. Overview and Instructions Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Skills
Exercises for Beginner Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Skills Exercise 1. Evocative Inquiry: Identifying Patterns and Eliciting Attachment Fears and Needs
Exercise 2. Evocative Reflection: Eliciting and Heightening Emotional Experience
Exercise 3. Validating Partners’ Experiences and Tracking Dysfunctional Patterns
Exercise 4. Attachment-Reframed Validation
Exercise 5. Deepening Emotions With RISSSSC: Speaking Simply, Slowly, and Softly
Exercises for Intermediate Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Skills Exercise 6. Tracking the Therapist’s Inner Experience
Exercise 7. Providing a Rationale for Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Exercises for Advanced Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Skills Exercise 8. Gathering and Assembling Elements of Emotion
Exercise 9. Enactments: Deepening Emotional Experience and Choreographing Engaged Encounters
Exercise 10. Slicing the Risk Thinner: Helping Partners Express Difficult Emotions
Exercise 11. Interrupting Negative Process Early in Therapy: Catching the Bullet I
Exercise 12. Interrupting Negative Process Later in Therapy: Catching the Bullet II
Comprehensive Exercises Exercise 13. Annotated Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 14. Mock Emotionally Focused Couple 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. Deliberate Practice Diary Form
Appendix C. Sample Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Hanna Levenson, Sam Jinich, Alexandre Vaz, and Tony Rousmaniere
