Emotion-focused therapy for clients with autistic process

Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy

Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy

Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy

The essence of process-experiential/emotion-focused therapy.

Process-Experiential/Emotion-Focused Therapy (PE-EFT) is an empirically-supported, neo-humanistic approach that integrates and updates person-centered, Gestalt, and existential therapies. In this article, we first present what we see as PE-EFT's five essential features, namely neo-humanistic values, process-experiential emotion theory, person-centered but process-guiding relational stance, ther...

Exploring the process of change in emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety.

OBJECTIVE This study examined purported change mechanisms in emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety disorder. METHODS The sample included nine clients who had participated in a multiple-baseline case study trial examining the efficacy of emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety disorder (SAD). Multilevel analyses were conducted to examine the trajectories of emotions over the course of ...