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Essential processes in emotion-focused therapy.

Sandra C Paivio¹

¹Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada N9B 3P4. paivio@uwindsor.ca

Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.)

|September 5, 2013

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Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based approach that uses emotional processing to facilitate change. Key principles involve empathic responding and promoting client experiencing for new meaning construction.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Psychotherapy Research

Background:

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy.
It is grounded in experiential therapy, emotion theory, and research.

Purpose of the Study:

To outline the fundamental assumptions and mechanisms of change in EFT.
To describe the core intervention principles essential for EFT sessions.

Main Methods:

The study is theoretical, drawing on existing emotion theory and research.
It identifies key assumptions and change processes within EFT.

Main Results:

EFT assumes emotions access multimodal information networks.
Therapeutic relationship and emotional processing are primary change mechanisms.
Emotional change involves awareness, regulation, reflection, and transformation.

Conclusions:

Four core intervention principles guide EFT sessions: collaboration, empathic responding, responding to adaptive emotions, and promoting client experiencing.
These principles align with proposed EFT change processes.