Shahar Ben
School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.
Clin Psychol Psychother. 2014 Nov-Dec;21(6):536-47. doi: 10.1002/cpp.1853. Epub 2013 Jul 1.
Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is an integrative and experiential treatment approach that views emotions as fundamentally adaptive and privileges attention to, and exploration of, emotional experiences. EFT has been demonstrated to be efficacious with depression, interpersonal trauma and marital discord, but application to anxiety disorders is in its initial stages. The purpose of this paper is to present the main principles of using EFT with socially anxious patients and to make the case that EFT is particularly well suited for working with this patient group. The primary change processes in EFT for social anxiety include improving emotion awareness, reducing experiential avoidance and the activation and transformation of shame that underlies the symptomatic anxiety. Such processes lead to less self-criticism, to more self-compassion and self-soothing and to a more favourable perception of the self. A case example is used to illustrate how these principles were applied with a socially anxious patient.
情绪聚焦疗法（EFT）是一种综合的体验式治疗方法，该方法认为情绪本质上具有适应性，并重视对情绪体验的关注和探索。EFT已被证明对抑郁症、人际创伤和婚姻不和有效，但在焦虑症中的应用尚处于初始阶段。本文的目的是介绍对社交焦虑患者使用EFT的主要原则，并论证EFT特别适合于治疗这一患者群体。EFT治疗社交焦虑的主要改变过程包括提高情绪意识、减少体验性回避以及激活和转变导致症状性焦虑的羞耻感。这些过程会减少自我批评，增加自我同情和自我安抚，并使对自我的认知更加积极。文中通过一个案例来说明这些原则是如何应用于一名社交焦虑患者的。
