Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings [Hardcover]

Leslie S. Greenberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2002

In Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings, Leslie S. Greenberg offers therapists an exciting new approach to helping clients live in harmony with head and heart. While most current books on coping emphasize mind over mood, and biological psychiatry offers psychotropic medication to regulate emotion, 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, and one that is rarely taught. Rich in clinical wisdom, practical guidance, and case illustration, this book provides an empirically supported model of training clients to attain emotional wisdom.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 337 pages
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 1 edition (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557988811
• ISBN-13: 978-1557988812
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #357,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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51 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My emotional response to reading this says it worth it!, October 16, 2002

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J. Loppnow "Lopps" (Monrovia, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings (Hardcover)

I learned about Leslie Greenberg in graduate school from someone who studied with him for a week in Canada. What I learned that quarter was simply profound. Now I have many of Leslie Greenberg's profound thoughts here in my hands.

A great thing about this book is that I can recommend it to my friends who have not studied psychology or pscyotherapy and they have access to the material for themselves and those that they teach. The great thing about this book is that it can be used in many different arenas. Certainly therapy, but also in your own relationships (marriages, parents & children) and in situations where you may want to teach about emotion (work, church, school, etc). I have already recommended this book to a friend of mine who is a pastor in Northern California.

Definately worth the investment!
I believe that all who read it have the opportunity to grow in their emotional wisdom.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome book for emotion focused therapy, October 15, 2010

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This review is from: Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings (Hardcover)

I just finished my master's degree in marriage and family therapy. I bought this book because I really like the emotionally focused theories and wanted to get more in-depth with them than what was taught in our classes. This book changed the way I do therapy and helped me to be a better therapist and a better person. It was very helpful for many types of clients from anxiety to depression, couples work to family therapy. I highly recommend it.

1 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings, October 9, 2008

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Tse Ming Man "Gwyneth" (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews
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My major is mental haelth. The book is easy to read. Greenberg explain the coaching steps very detail.