1st Edition
by Matthew McKay (Author), Aprilia West (Author)
In this groundbreaking
guide for clinicians, psychologist Matthew McKay and Aprilia West
present emotional efficacy therapy (EET)—a powerful and proven-effective
model for treating clients with emotion regulation disorders.
If
you treat clients with emotion regulation disorders—including
depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar
disorder, and borderline personality disorder (BPD)—you know how
important it is for these clients to take control of their emotions and
choose their actions in accordance with their values. To help, emotion
efficacy therapy (EET) provides a new, theoretically-driven,
contextually-based treatment that integrates components from acceptance
and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into
an exposure-based protocol. In doing so, EET targets the
transdiagnostic drivers of experiential avoidance and distress
intolerance to increase emotional efficacy.
This step-by-step
manual will show you how to help your clients confront and accept their
pain, and learn to apply new adaptive responses to emotional triggers.
Using a brief treatment that lasts as little as eight weeks, you will be
able to help your clients understand and develop a new relationship
with their emotions, learn how to have mastery over their emotional
experience, practice values-based action in the midst of being
emotionally triggered, and stop intense emotions from getting in the way
of creating the life they want.
Using the transdiagnostic,
exposure-based approach in this book, you can help your clients manage
difficult emotions, curb negative reactions, and start living a better
life. This book is a game changer for emotion exposure treatment!
