title: Emotion in psychotherapy: a practice-friendly research review.
abstract: This article reviews the process and outcome research on emotion in psychotherapy. Four distinct types of emotion processes are identified in the literature as useful in therapy, depending on a client's presenting concerns: emotional awareness and arousal; emotional regulation, active reflection on emotion (meaning making), and emotional transformation. Research findings are summarized to highlight the practical implications of these different emotion processes to psychotherapy. A range of selected treatments from different therapeutic orientations are addressed collectively as different types of emotion-focused, experiential therapies and are compared on the basis of how they work with emotion in session.
authors.affiliation: York University, Toronto, Ontario, CA M3J 1P3. lgrnberg@yorku.ca
authors.forename: Leslie S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pascual-Leone
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy; D033062:Friends; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011361:Professional Competence; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*