ABSTRACT

We present an Emotion Focused Therapy perspective on working with grief and bereavement. This perspective considers emotions as a fundamentally adaptive signaling system that provides people with important information about their needs and goals. Thus the focus in working with grief and bereavement in EFT is to access and symbolize people’s adaptive grief around their loss. When this grief is blocked by other emotional states, such as lingering resentments, guilt, or fear of emotional pain, it is important for these other emotions to also be accessed and differentiated from the grief. This emotional processing can be facilitated through an empathic relational stance and experiential interventions which are guided by emotion theory and process diagnosis.

摘要

我们提出了关于处理悲伤和丧亲之痛的情绪聚焦疗法观点。这种观点认为情绪是一种基本的适应性信号系统，可为人们提供有关其需求和目标的重要信息。因此，在 EFT 中处理悲伤和丧亲之痛的重点是获取和象征人们对失去亲人的适应性悲伤。当这种悲伤被其他情绪状态所阻挡时，例如挥之不去的怨恨、内疚或对情绪痛苦的恐惧，重要的是这些其他情绪也被访问并与悲伤区分开来。这种情绪处理可以通过移情关系立场和以情绪理论和过程诊断为指导的体验干预来促进。