Emotion-focused therapy: Coaching clients to work through their feelings.
American Psychological Association eBooksPublished 1 January 2002
Leslie S. Greenberg
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Abstract
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.
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