Levels of emotional awareness: implications for integration in psychotherapy.
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v4i16.1048Keywords:
emotion process, emotional awarenessAbstract
The authors apply a cognitive-developmental framework for understanding individual differences in emotional experience and expression to the problem of selecting and combining treatment modalities for patients mental disorders. Emphasis is placed on the clinical presentation of five levels of emotional awareness and the implications of each level for selecting from a broad range of treatment modalities, including pharmacological, behavioral, cognitive, and insight-oriented therapies. Matching therapeutic intervention to psychopathology is based on the theory that the way in which emotion is processed by the patient determines both the key features of psychopathology and the way in which interventions by the therapist are processed or understood. This model may serve as a useful training tool, help optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of treatment, and influence how mental health clinicians work together.
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