ABSTRACT

Emotional Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features offers a concise overview to what is distinctive about this new approach to helping clients cope with "difficult" emotions. Written by a researcher with many years of clinical experience, it provides an accessible, bitesize overview. Using the popular Distinctive Features format, this book describes 15 theoretical features and 15 practical techniques of Emotional Schema Therapy.  

Emotional Schema Therapy will be a valuable source that is written for psychotherapists, clinical, health and counselling psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, and all who wish to know more about the role of emotions and emotion regulation. 

part I|2 pages

The Emotional Schema Model

chapter 1|8 pages

From cognition to emotion

chapter 2|4 pages

Emotions are multifaceted

chapter 3|4 pages

Evolutionary adaptation and emotion

chapter 4|4 pages

Social construction of emotion

chapter 5|6 pages

Emotions are an object of cognition

chapter 7|8 pages

Fourteen dimensions of emotional schemas

chapter 8|4 pages

How others respond to our emotions

chapter 9|6 pages

Affective forecasting

chapter 10|4 pages

Normalizing and pathologizing emotions

chapter 11|6 pages

Metaphors of inclusiveness of emotions

chapter 12|6 pages

Emotional perfectionism

chapter 14|4 pages

Emotional socialization

chapter 15|4 pages

Emotional schemas in therapy

part II|2 pages

Modifying Emotional Schemas

chapter 17|4 pages

Adaptive emotion regulation strategies

chapter 18|6 pages

Case conceptualization

chapter 19|10 pages

Expression of emotion

chapter 22|4 pages

Emotions are universal

chapter 23|4 pages

Guilt and shame

chapter 24|4 pages

Emotions are not permanent

chapter 25|4 pages

Escalation and control

chapter 26|4 pages

Personal empowerment

chapter 27|6 pages

Tolerance for ambivalence and complexity

chapter 28|4 pages

Relating emotions to values

chapter 29|4 pages

Interpersonal emotional schemas

chapter 30|4 pages

Research on emotional schemas