Abstract
Emotion is involved in change in a variety of ways. Greenberg and Safran (1989) have delineated a number of ways in which emotions are involved in the therapeutic change process. These are:
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Acknowledging previously unacknowledged emotion provides information that enhances orientation and problem solving.
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Evoking emotion to motivate action. Thus anger organizes us for fight, fear, or flight.
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Emotional restructuring. This involves accessing and changing affective-cognitive schematic structures that are involved in the construction of the emotional meaning in our lives.
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Evoking emotion in order to access state-dependent core beliefs or “hot cognitions.”
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The modification of expressive-motor and physiological aspects of maladaptive emotional responses as in phobias.
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Greenberg, L.S., Rhodes, R.H. (1991). Emotion in the Change Process. In: Curtis, R.C., Stricker, G. (eds) How People Change. The Springer Series in Social / Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0741-7_5
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