This book presents deliberate practice exercises in which students and trainees rehearse fundamental emotion-focused therapy skills until they become natural and automatic.

Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz
Acknowledgments

Part I. Overview and Instructions
Chapter 1. Introduction to and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Emotion-Focused Therapy
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Emotion-Focused Therapy Deliberate Practice Exercises

Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Emotion-Focused Therapy Skills
Exercises for Beginner Emotion-Focused Therapy Skills
Exercise 1. Therapist Self-Awareness
Exercise 2. Empathic Understanding
Exercise 3. Empathic Affirmation and Validation
Exercise 4. Exploratory Questions
Exercises for Intermediate Emotion-Focused Therapy Skills
Exercise 5. Providing Treatment Rationale for Emotion-Focused Therapy
Exercise 6. Empathic Explorations
Exercise 7. Empathic Evocations
Exercise 8. Empathic Conjectures
Exercises for Advanced Emotion-Focused Therapy Skills
Exercise 9. Staying in Contact in the Face of Intense Affect
Exercise 10. Self-Disclosure
Exercise 11. Marker Recognition and Chair Work Task Setup
Exercise 12. Addressing Ruptures and Facilitating Repair
Comprehensive Exercises
Exercise 13. Annotated Emotion-Focused Therapy Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 14. Mock Emotion-Focused Therapy Sessions

Part III. Strategies for Enhancing the Deliberate Practice Exercises
Chapter 3. How to Get the Most Out of Deliberate Practice: Additional Guidance for Trainers and Trainees

Appendix A. Difficulty Assessments and Adjustments
Appendix B. Distinguishing Between Empathic Responses
Appendix C. Sample Emotion-Focused Therapy Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors

Rhonda N. Goldman, Alexandre Vaz, and Tony Rousmaniere