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Summary
Summary
This handbook offers therapists an approach to helping clients live in harmony with head and heart. Leslie Greenberg proposes that, rather than controlling or avoiding emotions, clients can learn from their own bodily reactions and begin to act sensibly on them. Expressing emotion in ways that are appropriate to context is a highly complex skill. Offering clinical wisdom, practical guidance and case illustration, the volume presents an empirically-supported model of training clients to attain emotional wisdom.
Author Notes
Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is a professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, where he is director of the Psychotherapy Research Clinic
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Greenberg's thorough presentation of using emotions in the therapy process draws on psychodynamic, Rogerian, and cognitive-behavioral theories. Greenberg (York Univ., Toronto) examines the importance of focusing on the client's emotional state to help him or her integrate emotions and reason in resolving issues. Arguing that emotions paired with reason enhance survival and well-being and promote change, the author believes that the therapist's role is to help the client learn to transform "unhealthy" emotions into adaptive emotions by accurately reading and putting them into a perspective that allows organizing oneself for decisions and actions. Greenberg describes steps to expand emotional awareness, identify triggers, shift out of a strong emotion, heal maladaptive emotions, restructure image, and focus on current needs and wants that can be acted on. He presents specific exercises for helping clients (be they individuals, parents, or couples) to increase emotional awareness. Numerous case examples, including session transcripts, provide a thorough illustration of the process and techniques. Due to the level of detail and numerous examples, the book can be used effectively in a graduate-level counseling class, and it will be equally useful to new and seasoned professionals seeking to develop or hone therapeutic skills. D. L. Loers Willamette University
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| I. Emotional Intelligence: What It Is and How to Promote Its Development | |
| Chapter 1. Emotions and Emotional Intelligence | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2. Distinguishing Among Varieties of Emotional Expression | p. 39 |
| Chapter 3. The Therapist as an Emotion Coach | p. 55 |
| Chapter 4. The Steps of Emotion Coaching | p. 85 |
| II. The Arriving Phase: Coaching for Emotional Awareness | |
| Chapter 5. Arriving at a Primary Emotion | p. 109 |
| Chapter 6. Coaching to Evaluate Whether an Emotion Is Healthy | p. 137 |
| III. The Leaving Phase: Moving on by Accessing Healthy Emotions | |
| Chapter 7. Identifying Maladaptive Emotions | p. 171 |
| Chapter 8. The Transforming Power of Affect: Facilitating Access to Alternate Adaptive Emotions and Needs | p. 193 |
| IV. Applying the Skills of Emotional Intelligence | |
| Chapter 9. Lessons About Anger and Sadness From Psychotherapy | p. 229 |
| Chapter 10. Transforming Fear and Shame in Psychotherapy | p. 241 |
| Chapter 11. Coaching for Emotional Wisdom in Couples | p. 255 |
| Chapter 12. Emotions in Parenting | p. 279 |
| Epilogue | p. 301 |
| Additional Resources | p. 305 |
| References | p. 307 |
| Author Index | p. 317 |
| Subject Index | p. 321 |
| About the Author | p. 337 |
