Emotional Schema Therapy

Emotional Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features offers a concise overview to what is distinctive about this new approach to helping clients cope with 'difficult' emotions.

Robert L. Leahy, PhD, is Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York and Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. His research focuses on individual differences in emotion regulation.

Table of Contents Part I: The Emotional Schema Model From Cognition to Emotion Emotions Are Multifaceted Evolutionary Adaptation and Emotion Social Construction of Emotion Emotions Are an Object of Cognition Beliefs about Emotions Reflect Cognitive Biases Fourteen Dimensions of Emotional Schemas How Others Respond to Our Emotions Affective Forecasting- Predicting Future Emotions Normalizing and Pathologizing Emotions Metaphors of Inclusiveness of Emotions Emotional Perfectionism Identifying Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies Emotional Socialization Emotional Schemas in Therapy Part II: Modifying Emotional Schemas Identifying and Evaluating Theories of Cause and Change Adaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies Case Conceptualization Expression of Emotion Validation, Self-Validation and Self-Compassion Problematic Strategies for Seeking Validation Emotions are Universal Guilt and Shame Emotions are Not Permanent Escalation and Control Personal Empowerment Tolerance for Ambivalence and Complexity Relating Emotions to Values Interpersonal Emotional Schemas Research on Emotional Schemas