“You Feel They Have a Heart and Are Not Afraid to Show It”: Exploring How Clients Experience the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therapy

“You Feel They Have a Heart and Are Not Afraid to Show It”: Exploring How Clients Experience the Therapeutic Relationship in Emotion-Focused Therapy

Background: The therapeutic relationship is regarded as an important source of change in emotion-focused therapy (EFT) (Greenberg, 2014; Watson, 2018), but few qualitative studies have specifically investigated how clients experience the role of the relationship in EFT.Aim: The purpose of the presen...

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Main Authors: Øystein Ottesen Nødtvedt, Per-Einar Binder, Signe Hjelen Stige, Elisabeth Schanche, Jan Reidar Stiegler, Aslak Hjeltnes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
emotion-focused therapy
the therapeutic relationship
thematic analysis
depression
self-criticism
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01996/full

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