![]() ![]() The main elements of the therapy are described in: The Emotional Processing Scale is a central assessment tool to help therapists formulate the course of therapy. It is not the same as Cognitive Therapy, where thinking and cognitions are the primary focus, but it does share much with Person Centred Counselling and Trauma Focussed Therapy, but with much more explicit discussion of emotion. Emotional Processing Therapy could be the main approach or an adjunct to other therapies. It is all about emotions, how to deal with them and the best way to resolve emotional pain. The purpose of Emotional Processing Therapy is to help people fully process those recent or past disturbing events in order to reach a level of calm where they no longer feel emotionally troubled.Įmotional Processing Therapy is a therapy that regards the person’s emotional life as the central point of treatment. This is where Emotional Processing Therapy comes in. It might have been bullying at school, sexual abuse, separation of parents or other disturbing events. ![]() This event from the past may never have been properly dealt with at the time, put into cold storage, hoping it would disappear for ever, but the repercussions rumble on. The event may be a recent one, such as a car crash, a divorce, or a death in the family that the person is struggling to accommodate, or it could be something which happened in the distant past. But what if the ‘disturbing event’ is so overwhelming, so traumatic, or if someone is just unable to process it? What happens then? Jack Rachman, who first defined emotional processing in 1980, regarded ‘successful processing’ of distressing events as the norm for most people. ‘Most people successfully process the overwhelming majority of disturbing events that occur in this life’ Jack Rachman Rothbaum (Ed.), PathologicalĪnxiety: Emotional processing in etiology and treatment (pp. (1986) Emotional processing of fear: Exposure to corrective Emotional processing,īehaviour Research and Therapy, 18, 51-60. Baker, Thomas, Thomas, Santonastaso & Corrigan (2015) Processes which allow the person to move from emotional disturbance to Processes and mechanisms used by individuals in ‘coming to terms’ with theīe thought of as an umbrella term referring to multiple mechanisms and Stressor (a trauma) that ‘emotional processing’ refers to many different “It is clear from the analyses of this one type of That … constitutes the essence of recovery or emotional processing.” Foa, Integrated into the evoked information structure for an emotional change to Processing is defined as the modification of memory structures that underlieĮmotions … new information, which is at once cognitive and affective, has to be “a process whereby emotional disturbances areĪbsorbed, and decline to the extent that other experiences and behaviour can ![]()
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